The Immorality of the Attribution of Distinct Cause in the Descent of Disasters and Blessings to God
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Aliasqar Mohammadzadeh |
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This article comprises two parts: in the first part, it is proved that there is a variety of causes for the descent of divine disasters or blessings on servants. In some cases, these causes are in conflict with one another and cannot be aggregated into one case. In this regard, there are six causes for suffering from calamities and two causes for the descent of God’s blessings on the servants in Koranic verses and traditions. The second part proves that, due to the contradiction in the proofs of the disasters and blessings, the attribution of suffering from calamities or the descent of blessings on a person to a specific cause is certainly not morally justified, and the attribution that God certainly for this particular reason sends down the blessings or calamities is not right. There are two moral reasons for proving this: one is based on the immorality of lying about God and the other is based on the immorality of slandering the servants |
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Keywords: disaster, calamity, blessing, lie, slander. |
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Type of Study: Applicable |
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Applied ethics Received: 2017/02/20 | Accepted: 2020/01/26 | Published: 2020/05/10
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