نوع مقاله : مقاله پژوهشی
عنوان مقاله English
نویسندگان English
The Divine Speech is one of the foundational topics in Islamic theology and has long been a point of contention among various schools of thought. Mulla Sadra, by integrating philosophy, mysticism, and religion, offers a novel interpretation of Divine Speech that goes beyond the perspectives of the Mu’tazilites, Ash‘arites, and Imamites. He considers speech not merely as a psychic attribute nor as a verbal creation, but as a cosmological manifestation of divine knowledge and will that appears across the different levels of existence. Mulla Sadra divides Divine Speech into three levels: ‘A‘la’ (the Creative Command), ‘Mutawassit’ (the Generative Command), and ‘Adna’ (the Legislative Command), presenting the world as a manifestation of these words. Within this framework, the Word of Creation embodies the totality of divine names and attributes and represents the essence of the possible world. The main research question of this study is to clarify the nature of Divine Speech in Mulla Sadra’s thought and its relation to existence and the hierarchical levels of being—a question that previous theological approaches often addressed partially, or only in a verbal or psychic sense. Accordingly, the central inquiry of the article is: What is the reality of Divine Speech in the Transcendent Philosophy, and how can the world be understood as the manifestation of divine creative words? The novelty of this study lies in the ontological re-reading of Mulla Sadra’s theory of Divine Speech, analyzing the structure of its creative and legislative levels, and critically examining his methodological use of analogical reasoning in explaining this theory. This paper not only analyzes Mulla Sadra’s theoretical framework on Divine Speech but also offers a critique of his use of figurative analogy as a methodological tool in articulating his thought.
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