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Abū al-Hasan Alī ibn Ismā'īl al-Ash'arī

Muslim Arab Theologian and Founder of the Ash'ari school of Early Islamic Philosophy and Islamic Theology

"Nothing can be evil on the part of God. For a thing is evil on our part only because we transgress the limit and bound set for us and do what we have no right to do. But the creator is subject to no one and bound by no command."

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