Semantics, Ontology and Functions of Sainthood (Velayat)fromAllamehTabatabai's Standpoint
Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism
Abdullah Salavati
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دانشیار گروه الهیات دانشگاه تربیت دبیر شهید رجایی، تهران، ایران
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Fatemeh Kookaram
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دانشجوی دکتری فلسفه و کلام اسلامی دانشگاه تربیت دبیر شهید رجایی، تهران، ایران.
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Keywords: Sainthood Semantics, Sainthood Ontology, perfect man, Sainthood (Velayat), Sainthood Functions, AllamehTabatabai,
Abstract :
The theory of a perfect man has always been attractive and interesting to great thinkers ever since so that it has become one of the main pillars in Islamic mysticism. The perfect man has many features the most important of which is the feature of province (Velayah). In this article the authors are going to make a survey on the perfect man's province from AlamehTabatabayee's viewpoint in which the main question remains to be what The semantics, ontology, and the province functions are in his opinion. Allameh believes that God is the only possessor of province and thus He is the sole province; accordingly, to him the Saint of God is someone who has achieved the divine Sainthood. The necessity of the perfect man is not only for the human kind, but also it extends to the whole world, that is, for a human being to be elevate to perfection, he needs not only a perfect human, but also all of the world needs the perfect man for his survival and preservation. Allameh assumes each one of the creatures to be the divine names among which the word human is the most comprehensive of all the divine names. After all, the outcomes of this research include: 1- In addition to the necessity of existence for the perfect man that is often the basis of the necessity, the writers have dealt with the necessity of the knowledge and epistemological necessity of human being in the universe; each of the three-fold evidences are proofs of the perfect man necessity in the universe; 2- AllamehTabatabai in his book called Al-Mizan has expressed four categories for different provinces including the developmental province for God, the provincial legislation for God, the provincial legislation for the prophet Muhammad, and the provincial legislation of Alawi; 3- The authors have comprehended two verbal and cognitive functions out of Sainthood in the Works of AllamehTabatabai.
