Religious doctrines and the impact of philosophical concepts on them (different science as a model)

Abstract

The stations of research on the topic of knowing God can be summarized as follows:

1 - Does God know things in His own order? This is self-knowledge of things, and the majority of philosophers and religious scholars have established it, according to what Mulla Sadra narrated from them, even if they differed in its details.

2 - Does God Almighty know things outside the rank of Himself before the existence of things? This is the actual knowledge of things before creation and making, and the majority of philosophers and theologians have proven it according to what Mulla Sadra also told about them, even if they differed in its details as well.

3 - Does God know things outside the rank of himself with the existence of things? This is the actual knowledge of things with finding, and it was proven by Sheikh Al-Ishraq and followed by Al-Khawaja Al-Tusi and Mulla Sadra with some difference and distinction in his statement .

In this article, we will highlight only the second of the above stations.