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And the underlying purpose in all of that was to avoid affirming for Allaah, that He has actions tied to His will and power, because this would mean, according to the aforementioned intellectual proof based around the basic notions of Aristotle's "Ten Categories" (al-Maqoolaat al-Ashar) that Allaah is subject to change (taghayyur) denoted by His actions tied to His will and power. Because they had already argued against the Atheist Philosophers (through this metaphysical language) that anything having incidental attributes (a'raad) or what they call occurrences (hawaadith), is a proof of its being created, and this is what they used to argue that the universe is created. Then, they had to in turn deal with those texts in the revelation that clearly establish for Allaah actions tied to His will and power (which would have meant that Allaah is subject to occurrences and events and thus created). And because they made this false proof to be the ultimate truth without which the veracity of Islam cannot be established, they had to make this proof decisive, and the revealed texts to be subservient to this proof.

Thus, the central axis and goal of all these people (the Mutakallimoon) to avoid falsifying their intellectual proof called "hudooth ul-ajsaam" (proof of the createdness of the universe) - you can learn more about that here - and this is what drives the bulk of their positions in creed.

• Imaam ash-Shaafi'ee: 'Whoever Says My Pronunciation of the Qur'an is Created is a Jahmee': Jahmiyyah Ash'ariyyah: 'Our Pronunciation of the Qur'an is Created'
  
• Imaam Ahmad bin Hanbal (d. 241H) : Affirmation of the Attribute of Voice (Sawt) for Allaah
  
• Abdul-Kareem Ash-Shahrastani, Sixth Century Ash'ari (d. 548H): Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari Broke the Ijmaa' and Innovated a Third Saying On the Subject of Allaah's Speech and the Qur'an
  
• Shaykh Abdul-Qadir al-Jeelaanee (d. 561H): Allaah is the Reckoner of Every Ash'ari Innovator, Strayer, Leading others Astray Who Claims Allaah's Speech is Meaning Only and Not Letter and Voice
  
• Shaykh Abdul-Qadir al-Jeelaanee (d. 561H): The Ash'arites Who Say the Qur'an is an Ibaarah (Expression) Are Threatened with the Hellfire (Saqar) Just Like al-Waleed bin al-Mugheerah al-Makhzoomee
  
• Shaykh Abdul-Qadir al-Jeelaanee (d. 561H): Cleans Out the Secret Hideouts of the Ash'arites and Sends them Fleeing For Cover Out Of Awe and Terror: Whoever Claims the Qur'an is an Ibaarah (Expression) is a Kaafir Whose Repentance is to Be Sought
  
• The Six Stages In The Evolution Of the Doctrines of the 'Qur'an Creationists' - The Jahmiyyah, Mu'tazilah and Kullaabiyyah Ash'ariyyah
  
• Imaam al-Bukhaaree (d. 256H): Cleans Out the Secret Hideouts of the Qur'an Creationists Who Deny Allaah Speaks With A Voice
  
• The Haashiyah of al-Bayjoori: Is the Created Qur'an Better Than the Prophet or is the Prophet Better Than the Created Qur'an? And Affirmation From Imaam al-Bukhaaree That the Ash'arites are Jahmiyyah Lafdhiyyah
  
• Ibn Battah (d. 387H) on the Jahmite Origins of the Kullaabi Ash'ari Doctrine That This Qur'an That is With Us, Present on This Earth, In Letter and Word, Recited, Memorized, Heard and Written, is Created
  
• Ahmad bin Sinan al-Waasitee (d. 258H): Shaykh of al-Bukhaaree and Muslim Sends Jahmite Ash'aris Fleeing From Their Secret Hideouts: 'Whoever Says the Qur'an is Two Things Or a Hikaayah is, by Allaah, a Zindeeq, Kaafir'
  
• The Ash'ari Clinic: 1st Case Study of 'Ash'ari Burnout' - Concerning Allaah's Speech and the Qur'an
  
• The Ash'aris: We Believe in Two Qur'ans
  
• Imaam Ahmad: 'Whoever Says Allaah's Names are Created is a Kaafir'. Ash-Shaafi'ee: 'Allaah's Names Are Not Created'. Jahmite Ash'aris: 'Allaah's Names are Created'
  
• Imaam ul-Haramayn al-Juwaynee (d. 478H): We Agree With the Mu'tazilah That the Qur'an is Created - We Just Differ on a Matter of Wording Which Is On Account Of What Can We Call Allaah 'Mutakallim' (One Who Speaks)
  
• Muhammad Sa'eed Ramadan Buti: We (The Ash'aris) and the Mu'tazilah are United that the Qur'an Is Created And What the Mu'tazilah Call 'Knowledge (al-Ilm)' and 'Will (al-Iraadah)', We Simply Call 'al-Kalaam an-Nafsee'
  
• Fakhr ud-Deen ar-Razi (d. 606H), Imaam of the Ash'aris: We Agree With the Mu'tazilah That the (Recited) Qur'an is Created And Our Dispute Is One of Wording Only
  
• Ibn Jareer at-Tabari (d. 310H) Sends the Jahmite Ash'aris Fleeing From Their Secret Hideouts: There is Only One Qur'an, Uncreated and Whoever Claims Otherwise Is a Cursed, Forsaken Kaafir
  
• The Haashiyah of al-Bayjoori: The Qur'aan We Memorize and Recite Is Makhlooq (Created) And Is From Hudooth - But We Only Say That In Private, Not Openly