The Relation between the Divine Nature and Attributes

The relation between God's nature and attributes is one of the fundamental Kalami issues, which has been always discussed by the Muslim thinkers. In this writing, the relation between God's nature and attributes from the viewpoint of Mu'tazili thinkers is reported. To avoid the problem of plurality of gods or plurality of eternal attributes in the Divine Nature, the Qadariyyah or the early Mutazilites were amongst the early groups that absolutely negated the attributes. Nevertheless, in order to avoid the problem of Taitil (not knowing God), some Mutazelites offered other various views such as Niyabat (deputyship), Ahwal and Ainiyyah (oneness) of the attributes with God's Nature, but all of the three views of Niyabat, Ahwal and Ainiyyah are a different reading of the theory of Attributes negation.