Critique and Study of the Indian Sir Syed Ahmed Khan’s Hypothesis on Metaphysic Things and Mystical Intuitions from Alameh Tabatabaei’s Standpoint

Subject Areas : Islamic Mysticism

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1 - Assistant Professor, Islamic Knowledge Dept., Islamic Azad University, Tehran East Branch, Tehran, Iran

Received: 2021-09-17 Accepted : 2021-09-17 Published : 2021-09-23

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Arguing that religion is the promise of God and that the knowledge and act of God may not contradict, the Indian Sir Syed Ahmed Khan deems the empirical theories arisen from sensations as something absolute and unchanging; interprets the absolute religious teachings, metaphysic things, and mystical intuitions through symbolic language of religion; and considers the truth of all prophesy, revelation, prophetic miracles, angels, demons, mystical intuitions, and imams’ generosities as illusions. Conversely, Allaneh Tabatabaei, rejecting the allegations, argues the words in their conventional and lexical meanings and uses references to the verses interpreting other verses without reasoning in a way that we usually resort to; expressing the law of causality, he explains the miracles in a form of natural processing that affected by God under the circumstances of time and cause of the occurance.