Editing Mu'tazilism (section)

===Eschatology===
One of the "most sharply defined" issues where the Mu'tazila disagreed with "their theological opponents" was whether [[Jannah|Paradise]] and hell ([[Jahannam]]) had already been created or if their existence was waiting for [[Judgement Day]]. The "majority of the Mu'tazila rejected categorically" the idea that God had already created the Garden and the Fire on the grounds that "the physical universe does not allow for their existence yet". They also argued that because the Qur'an described everything in the universe except God being destroyed (the great ''fanāʾ'') "between the trumpet blasts" before Judgement Day, it would be more sensible to assume that the two abodes of the afterlife would be created after the great ''fanāʾ''<ref name=JISYYHIU1981:92>[[#JISYYHIU1981|Smith & Haddad, ''Islamic Understanding'', 1981]]: p.92</ref> 

A number of ḥadīth promise that viewing that face of God (''wajh Allah'') will be part of the reward of the faithful in paradise. However, the Mu'tazila, aside from their skepticism of ḥadīth, argued that if "God was an immaterial substance", as they believed he was, He was "by definition" not visible.<ref name=JISYYHIU1981:95>[[#JISYYHIU1981|Smith & Haddad, ''Islamic Understanding'', 1981]]: p.95</ref>