Mujassima

The Mujassima are a group of people who believe that God has a physical body. The term is Arabic for “corporealists”. 

Explanation 

• The Mujassima’s views on God’s corporeality were similar to the Stoic ideas of early Christian theologians.
• The Mujassima were literalists.
• The Ash’aris and Maturidis used the derogatory terms “Mushabbiha” (anthropomorphists) and “Hashwiyya” (“know-nothings”) to describe the Mujassima.
• The Qur’an states that God will be seen in person in Paradise.