The Relation between Creation and Lordship in light of a onotheistic viewpoint

Hussein Hammouda

Summary
This paper tries to address one of the most important problems in the field of intellectual and religious studies, namely the relation between monotheism in creation and monotheism in lordship. The article discusses the concept of each of them separately, besides studying the problematic relation between the Creator and creation according to intellectual analytical-critical method.

This study concludes with certain results, the most important of them are the following: there is an accompaniment relation between creation and lordship on one side, and on the other the inseparation of creation from divine management. This is because creation is an abstract attribute (sifah intiza’iyah), and the relation between the Creator and creation is a relation between an effect and the cause that has founded it, and the need of the effect to the cause is self-poverty, or what is called as the existential potentiality. And that lordship is a kind of creation and foundation, which means the creation of something step by step until completion, taking it to the sought perfection, and relieving it from lacks and flaws by adornment and refinement.

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