A Critical Study of Sheikh Ahmad Ahsa'i's View against the Belief in Imam`s Objective Effect in the System of Creation

As the most important personality of the Sheikhyya sect, Sheikh Ahmad Ahsaei believed that the imams (a) do all the affairs of the world, including creating and sustaining creatures in the system of creation, and imams are the true active cause of everything in existence. It seems that the explanation of this emotional point of view and the criticism of his evidence is the problem of this research and it has been addressed in an analytical and critical way. Therefore, after explaining Ahsaei's point of view and analyzing his theory on the effective cause of Imams' (a) knowledge of the foundations, the evidences and proofs cited by him were also examined and it became clear that he has relied on traditions that supported his theory; While they do not prove it, and on the other hand, the fact that he introduced imams as the doers of all world affairs and considered them to be the real active cause in creation, is rooted in the lack of correct emotional analysis of God's agency in the system of creation and his problems in this field.