SADREDDİN ŞİRAZİ’DE TANRI’NIN BİLGİSİ PROBLEMİ
PROBLEM OF GOD’S KNOWLEDGE IN SADR AL-DIN SHIRAZI

Summary/Abstract: According to Shirazi, it is not possible to describe with description and define with any definition the essence of God. Because the most extensive and broad existence is the existence of God. There is no other existence that is broader and more extensive than God. According to our philosopher, God’s essence and attribute express the same reality. As for Shirazi, God does not have any action other than creating. All of God’s actual attributes can be reduced of giving life and creating from nothing. According to Shirazi, the reason God’s knowledge was absolute, is because God develops its own entity by making its own entity develop the entity as the thinker. God’s knowledge of the possible creatures is not the images portrayed to its supreme self. Such statement, for Shirazi, belongs to Aristotle and the peripatetic philosophers who followed him. According to Sadr al- Shirazi, the knowledge of God is the same as it own entity. God knows and thinks His own essence. God’s essence does not dictate itself by forcing itself. With its own essence, God knows the small fractions inside the total whole. According to our philosopher, God’s essence is not hidden from Himself by being a curtain to His own entity. According to Shirazi, Almighty God knowing His own mandatory existence, makes it essential and requires for God to know all the assets and entities outside His own. Shirazi lines up the degree of the knowledge of God over things as the book of grace, incident, fate, preserved tabled, predetermination pen and book of existence.

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