What Does the E What Does the Euthyphr uthyphro Dilemma Re o Dilemma Reveal about the Natur eal about the Nature of Allah? e of Allah?

In their book, Good God: The Theistic Foundations of Morality, David Baggett & Jerry Walls discuss the
nature of the God of Christianity by studying the Euthyphro dilemma. This paper shall follow Louise
Antony, Walls, and Baggett’s model of the Euthyphro dilemma (Divine Command Theory) and uses it as an
objective moral standard to study the nature of the theistic concept of divinity in Islam. After explaining
the Euthyphro dilemma and making the distinction between voluntarism and extreme voluntarism. I shall
argue that morality (what is good, right, bad, wrong, or evil) can easily be compromised on the extreme
voluntarist view, unless it is constrained by the good nature of Allah. But, once the voluntarist nature of
Allah is combined with some particular names/attributes (i.e., Ad-Ḍar and Al-Muḍil, Al-Mutakkabir, Al-Muntaqim, and Al-Qahar) and moral commands (i.e., Holy war, mutᶜa marriage, and adult breastfeeding),
the morality of Allah is drastically compromised.