Journal of Razavi Culture

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: “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.

Abstract One of the important issues in the field of divine names and attributes is God's previous knowledge to his essence before creating possible beings. According to the appearance of the ᷾Imran Ṣᾱbi's narration, Imᾱm Reḍᾱ (A.S) denies God's need for such knowledge that is incompatible with another Imᾱm's narration in which God's knowledge to His essence is affirmed. The commentators of this narration like hadith scholars, philosophers, and mystics disagree in explaining and solving such incompatibility. ʿAllᾱmih Majlisī has mentioned four justifications that all of them can be criticized. Qᾱżī Saʿid Qummī accepts the apparent meaning of Hadith and attributes this knowledge to the level of Unity.  This viewpoint is incompatible with those traditions in which the attributes of essence are affirmed. ʿAllᾱmih Jafarī uses only the principle of identity in jusfying this Hadith and does not accept the attributing this to God's intuitive knowledge. In this article, Mullᾱ Ṣadrᾱ's viewpoint that is based on intuition knowledge and the principle of identity is more compatible with Imᾱm Reḍᾱ's (A.S) Hadith in solving this contradiction.