Comparison Of st. Agustines and Imam Mohammad Ghazalis ideas on theology
Subject Areas : Islamic MysticismAbdolhossein Latifi 1 , Sahar Asgari 2
1 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد شهرری، استادیار گروه ادیان و عرفان، تهران، ایران
2 - دانشگاه آزاد اسلامی، واحد شهرری، کارشناسی ارشد گروه ادیان و عرفان، تهران، ایران
Keywords: nature, mercy, Augustinus, Ghazali, the first cause, holy sprite,
Abstract :
Aurelius Augustinus was born in 354 in Tagast. The direction of his thought is based on his imagination of God, that is faith to the Almighty, wise and benevolent God. The Son considers ideas and the creation as the epiphany of the Word. Imam Mohammad Ghazali was born in 450 AH in Tabran. He says that, God is indescribable, the first cause, the origin of the universe, and the light of the lights. He is beyond rational comprehension, and he is almighty. Therefore both of them know God as the origin of the universe. The God is the divine light and the only real existence. The indescribable God creates the universe by his absolute and unchangeable determination. There are differences beside these similarities. The god of Augustinus adopts human traits for saving the mankind and enters to the body. But the god of Ghazali cannot be in the body and is not similar to anything. On the other hand, Augustinus says that we need God’s mercy to be prospered. But Ghazali says that mercy is in conflict with being autonomous and almighty as well as the creation from nullity. On the other hand, Augustinus believes that he heard the voice of God from a child, but Ghazali says that the Word of God is higher than any other Words. According to the proposed thoughts of these persons is in the field of theology, the writer is going to compare their theories about theology by descriptive-comparative method through library studies.