سير تطور برهان صديقين از ابن سينا تا علامه طباطبايي

The Arguement of Devotees from Ibn Sina to Allamah Tabatabaʹi

Islamic philosophers intend to devise a rational arguement in which created beings do not function as intermediaries in the demonstration of Almighty Truth. Ibn Sina was the first to have adopted such a method and innovated an argument based on the above idea. He called his famous argument which is based on the division of existcnts in to necessary and possible ones, the possibles need a determinant in existence, and the impossibility of the infinite regression ot causes, the "argument of devotee^ʹ aad claimed that this argument is superior to all others propounded in the same regard. After Ibn Sina, some other Muslim philosophers such as Shaykh Shahab al-Din Suhrawardi, Mulla Sadra, Hajj Mulla Hadi Sab/iwari, and Allamah Tabataba i tried to formulate their arguments based on fewer premises. Hence, various interpretations of the argument of devotees have been offered in Islamic philosophy. The argument of devotees in the Transcendent Philosophy is other than that in Peripatetic Philosophy. Accordingly, Mulla Sadra belcives that the later does not deserve to be called the argument of devotees. However the one propouncd in Ishraqi philosophy, although incomplete in comparison to the one given in the Transcendent Philosophy, is closer to it. This argument became more complete after Mulla Sadra in that its premises 16 AYENEH MAʹKEhAT were reduced in number; ils purpose became clearer; and the way lo attain it becamc shorter. The most complete and accuraic interpretation oi" the argument of believers, after Mulla Sadra, has been offered by Allamah Tabatabaʹi.