المرجئة

المرجئة

A sect holding that faith is speech without deed, that it neither increases nor decreases, and that people do not differ in it; the book describes their view as it relays it from the People of the Sunna, and rules it void. Ahmad Amin presents the question from the inside: the basis of irja' is how faith is defined. Religion has three elements, assent of the heart, profession of the tongue and action of the limbs. Some Murji'a confined faith to assent of the heart, arguing that iman means tasdiq in the lexicon; others made it two pillars, assent and profession, and they nearly all agree that deed is no pillar of it. Irja' began simple and naive in the Umayyad period, and as doctrines grew philosophical in the Abbasid age, irja' became philosophical too ¹.