in some verses of the holy quran we read something about the love of god in men and the love of a number of men in god. mull sadra has known the truth of love to lie in god by defining it as rejoicing by the favorable thing and says that its application to the creatures is metaphorical just in the way that application of existence to them is. every created being is a shadow of gods hierarchical...

This article presents an argument for the existence of God, showing that the evident phenomena are best explained by supposing that a God causes them. The argument is based on the inductive force of four very evident general phenomena: that there is a physical Universe; that it is governed by very simple natural laws; that those laws are such as to lead to the existence of human bodies; and tha...

although ghazālī has not openly talked about the philosophy of theology, its components can be found in his works. as such, he regards the ultimate goal of theology to be safeguarding the religion and the assertoric or imitative belief of the religious person, preventing misconception and doubt to enter it, and preparing for the desired outcome of theology (happiness). the status of the science...

modern scientific cosmology, having grounded itself in materialism, rebuts any theocentric explanation of the world as unnecessary and irrational. stephan hawking, being a prominent figure in this field, seeks to demonstrate that the world has come to existence by chance or necessity through an antitheistic argument based on big bang theory. regarding the metaphysical dimensions of the discours...

this article examines the mu‘tazilite qādī ‘abd al-jabbār’s views on the denotation of miracles according to his own particular methodology. despite his acceptance of the celebrated method of the theologians in the denotation of miracles with respect to the authenticity of prophets, i.e., resorting to divine wisdom, qādī ‘abd al-jabbār instead proposed the issue within the structure of conven...

problem of evil is something which is considered against existence of god or his attributes like being omnipotent and absolutely good. philosophers and theologians have tried to solve this problem by different ways. the solution which is accepted by muslim philosophers is the nothingness of evils. according to this opinion evils are not except nothing of essence or perfections of essence. in th...