The Disagreement Between Moetazalite and Asha'rite Schools

Moetazalites believed that through our actions we engender certain effects. The Asha'rite's were more concerned to preserve God's untrambled power, writes Ashar Al-Ashari. If attributes can be created without God's direct intervention, but instead by something like a human action, then the need for all atoms and attributes to be created proves nothing about God, he says.