A Review of the Salafism’s Deviation in the Semantics of Divine Attributes

Anathema is a nascent term in the history and literature of Islamic thoughts which has been chosen by a group, namely, the people of tradition and the followers of Ahmad Ebne Hanbal, Ebn Taymieh, and Mohammad Ben Abdolvahab. They are traditionalists in their methodology and literalists and formalists in their understanding of the tradition. They do not appreciate human mind as capable enough to know God. Their only mission is to understand Salfieh’s discourse not more than that. According to Salfieh’s ontology, God is a celestial being sitting in the seventh heaven. God, has additional declarative attributes like hand, soul, modus, which will be seen in the resurrection day by bare eyes. Salfieh’s, in the explanation and interpretation of these attributes from the standpoint of semantics, confines themselves to a superficial and common meanings of these attribute. These groups with their biased and extremist understanding of the profession of God’s unity call themselves theistic. This study tries to shed some lights on the Salfieh’s basic principles in the profession of God’s unity.