Allame Tabatabaee's Views on the Distinction between Existence and Quiddity and Its Role in the Interpretation of Seddiqin Argument

In philosophy and theoretical mysticism, different views have been expressed on the interpretation of Seddiqin argument with regard to the relationship between existence and quiddity. Avicenna by basing his argument on the differentiation between quiddity and existence; Sohravardi by his denial of this differentiation and basing his argument on the theory of lights and Mulla Sadra by deriving his argument from two bases: the priority of existence over quiddity and modulation of existence have tried to provide proof for the existence of God, as the first philosophical issue. But none of these arguments have provided the proof they have sought for. Allame Tabatabaee, taking a new approach to the connection between existence and quiddity and using the originality of reality, runs the shortest way toward the provision of proof for existence of God. Reliance on Allameh’s argument has had valuable outcomes among which we can refer to the proof for the necessary being as the first philosophical issue.