Riḍā Jamali; Hamid Moazzeni Bistgani
Abstract
Knowing the "Truth of ʿArsh" has always been one of the most complex and important issues for scientists and people of knowledge, the reason for which is the noble verses of the Qur'an: ...
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Knowing the "Truth of ʿArsh" has always been one of the most complex and important issues for scientists and people of knowledge, the reason for which is the noble verses of the Qur'an: “Most Gracious is firmly established on the throne” (Ṭāhā, 5) and related hadiths that clearly speak about ʿArsh; therefore, religious thinkers, including commentators and theologians, have examined and searched for this. The purpose of the research is to investigate the true concept of ʿArsh, considering the necessity of knowing it in the field of cosmology, theology, and divine knowledge, to seek a clear answer to some ambiguities, such as the thinking of the sect moshbeheh and mojassameh, which exist in this matter. And the result of the research according to the hadiths of Imam Riḍā (as), especially the hadith of Khājeh Abāṣalt from Imam Riḍā (as), is that Allah’s throne is not material and it has an independent truth and is of the type of unseen truths and in the order of immaterial worlds, and what is meant by the truth of the throne is the place of planning and management and the divine lordship and authority that was the source of issuing world orders, and all divine commands lead to it, and ʿArsh is also considered as divine knowledge.
