Re: The Implications of considering Quran the Creator or Created (khaliq or makhlooq)
Sorry my friend, but Quran could either be a creation or a part of Creator. It can not be neither.
It was an important argument. This is why Ahmed bin Hanbal was imprisoned.
If Mutazilah had won then we would have seen a very different approach to religion by Muslims.
I am giving an example from my own understanding here. Statues are forbidden because prophet ordered Muslims not to do it. But a Mutazila might have said that he forbade statues out of fear of people making his own image and idolizing him. And now since there is no fear of it happening, therefore both statues and photography is allowed.
So implications go far beyond than just calling Quran creation or eternal. (I am using the term ‘eternal’ here, because I think the word ‘khaliq’ is making people very uncomfortable).