TRADITION IN THE FUNDAMENTALS OF RELIGION AMONG ANCIENT AND MODERN THEOLOGIANS: AN ANALYTICAL AND CRITICAL STUDY

The aim of the research is to identify the concept of imitation in the fundamentals of religion and its ruling, and to explain the truth of imitation in the fundamentals of religion according to ancient theologians, and to know the truth of imitation in the fundamentals of religion according to modern theologians.Matters of belief must be attained with certainty from conclusive evidence, for everyone who has established conclusive evidence He must be knowledgeable and diligent, and not considered an imitator.This research deals with the issue of imitation in the principles of religion according to ancient and modern theologians.In the view of theologians, he is one who imitates others in matters of belief without consideration and reasoning in accordance with rational evidence.This issue is one of the important issues over which there has been a long debate among theologians.In the past and in the present, it has serious effects.In spite of this, the problem of the study was to explain the rule of imitation in the foundations of religion according to ancient and modern theologians.The researcher followed the descriptive approach, the analytical approach, and the critical approach, and the research concluded with the most important results and recommendations.The authors of the theological approaches made a mistake in leaving The approach of the Qur'an and the Sunnah to the approaches of humans, which resulted in doctrinal corruptions in judging the faith of the one who abandons rational reasoning according to their approaches, just as the evidence that necessitates consideration and inference of the accountable according to the Mu'tazilites is reason, while the Sharia is the evidence that necessitates consideration and inference of the accountable according to the Ash'aris, and he recommended Researching the necessity of calling for mediation, holding dialogue and argumentative sessions and debates between all groups, fairness, mediation, and non-exaggeration between different opinions .