AHMED ŞÎRANÎ'NİN İMAN, İSBẤT-I VACİB VE İLAHI SIFATLAR HAKKINDAKİ GÖRÜŞLERİ.

Ahmad Shīrānī (1879-1942), one of the late Ottoman scholars and one of the important writers of the constitutional monarchy press, is a person who expressed his scientific, political and religious views in various magazines of his period. Among the issues on which he expressed his opinion in the religious field are the issues of faith, isbat al-wajib and divine attributes. Among the issues he touches upon are the position of people in terms of faith, the place of deeds in relation to faith, apostasy under threat, the collective and detailed faith, investigative and imitative faith, the period of responsibility for faith, and whether it is permissible to spread faith through coercion. On the subject of Isbat al-wajib, he touched upon issues such as the justification of Allah's existence through the need for Him, the evidence that the universe contains in this regard, the progress made by science and science in this direction, the impossibility of substituting nature for Him, the proof of disposition and the proof of general acceptance. In the subject of divine attributes, he tried to explain the essential and positive attributes of Allah in a very short style that adopted everyday language instead of using technical terms. Shīrānī touches upon the subjects of faith and of Isbāt al-wājib in a scattered manner, mostly through references he makes on the subject in his various articles. He dealt with the issue of divine attributes independently, mainly in a series of articles titled "İlmihal Dersleri". He developed a language according to the position of his interlocutors in explaining the relevant issues. In this context, he generally addressed his readers who did not have sufficient scientific knowledge in a simple and easy way, and those with a relatively high intellectual level, often with an intermediate level, and sometimes with a completely technical language and style. In the "İlmihal Dersleri" series of articles, he chose a simple language because he determined his addressees as the public and children in general. In his other writings, he followed a more scientific style. In this article, the ideas put forward by Ahmad Shīrānī within the framework of the above-mentioned subjects will be discussed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]