جستجوی مقالات مرتبط با کلیدواژه "foreknowledge" در نشریات گروه "ادیان و عرفان"

Among the issues which have been thoroughly studied by all Muslim scholars is “God,s foreknowledge of things”. Contrary to early philosophers, Mulla Sadra, one of the Muslim philosophers provides a rational explanation of this knowledge in two areas: essence and contrary-to-essence, which is compatible to God’s unity and simplicity. In his philosophical works, he presents two interpretations which are totally different from that presented by gnostics. First, citing the outward meaning of the words of gnostics, he considers their view to be equal to that of the Mu’tazilites; both lacking proofs, Then, resting on gnostic's hidden facts and sayings, he regards their view about God’s foreknowledge of things, as the deepest and most precise. The present paper reviews Mulla Sadra's two different interpretations gnostic's view about God’s foreknowledge of things and examines their compatibility or incompatibility with gnostic's view.