جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه « knowledge of the unseen » در نشریات گروه « فلسفه و کلام »

The architect and founder of transcendental Philosophy, sadr ad-Din Muhammad Shirazi, is among the philosophers who has made more attempts to analyze and illustrate the religious concepts. The knowledge of the unseen is a key concept in Muslim􀀇s belief system. Mulla Sadra is the only philosopher who has had a special attention to this concept. Based on the previous philosophers􀀇 principles and reasoning and also reliance on logical principles of his own philosophical school such as essentiality of existence, substantial departure, mental existence, and unity of knowing and the known by which he has explained the upward arc and downward arc for human soul, Mulla Sadra has introduced a philosophico-mystical analysis distinct from the other approaches. Retrieving to the knowledge of the unseen and getting to know its facts which is called the unseen knowledge, this paper intends to analyze this school and to reveal its merits in comparison to other philosophical schools.

Bada' (appearance) is one of the most important Shiite doctrines, and a true understanding of this doctrine in the light of theology, prophetology and imamology help answer the questions raised in the regard by testifying divine will and infallible Imam's knowledge of the Unseen. Citing transmitted and intellectual proofs, the present paper criticizes the charges made by Nasser Al-Qefari, a Wahhabi scholar, and proves that the idea of using Bada' by which is confirmed by Shiite scholars dispels such notions like attributing ignorance to God, superiority of the Holy Prophet's household over the Creator or Imam's position extreme. The use of Bada' by God has a figurative meaning; that is, its occurrence contained in the Tablet of Effacement and Affirmation in which predestinations are recorded and is associate with God's active knowledge. God's essential knowledge which is eternal and unchangeable contained in the Protected Tablet with God. Furthermore, Imam's knowledge of the Unseen has toots in and due to the clear difference between God's knowledge of the Unseen and that of Imam's in quality and quantity there is no indication of attributing superiority to Imams. The historical stories to which Qefari refers are contradictory and not reliable.

Some questions about Imam's knowledge of the unseen have been posed nowadays such as: Imam's knowledge of the unseen is a new-born discussion posed through a long process and a historical course some centuries after the life of Imams; otherwise this knowledge has not been posed from the beginning ages of Islam.This article will investigate the rational and narrational bases of Imam's knowledge of the unseen and will reach to the conclusion that the theory of Imam's knowledge of the unseen is rooted in Quran's verses and narrations. The knowledge of the unseen has been posed in the time of the Prophet (PBUH) and the Imams and they have affirmed this knowledge. Therefore there is no doubt about Imam's knowledge of the unseen among Shiite scholars, although they occasionally disagree about the range of this knowledge. Some believe the range of this knowledge is jurisprudence and beliefs and some believe the range is greater than this. This point will be completely clarified in this article.