viewpoint ofimamiehilm al-kalam on wickedness

viewpoint ofimamiehilm al-kalam on wickedness hussein emadzadeh1,dr. mahdi farmanian21- ph.d. student ofimamiehilm al-kalam, tehran university (farabi campus), instructor at islamic azad university of gachsaran, corresponding author, e-mail: [email protected] assistant professor, university of religions and denominationsabstractscholars before khawja that were living at a time when ilm al-kalam was not philosophized specifically, found the solution to the issue of evilness in the verses and narrations by ahl al-bayt (peace be upon them). hence, their solutions differ from philosophical viewpoints on the wicked. imamieh scholars assume that wickedness and evil originate from god. they did not consider wickedness to be the opposite of god’s absolute goodwill as in christianity. in imamiehilm al-kalam, god is the all-knower and thus there is a divine reason for the existence of wickedness. that is to say, wickedness is not useless and vain. hence, the wicked and disasters of the material world are considered to be good and virtuous because god compensates for wickedness (evil) with “remedy” and “requital”. keywords: wickedness, imamiehilm al-kalam, wisdom, remedy, requital