Document Type : Original Article
Authors
1 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Islamic Theology, Shahed University of Tehran
2 Assistant Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Damghan University, Damghan, Iran
3 Professor, Department of Islamic Studies, Allameh Tabatabaei University, Tehran
Abstract
The scholars of Hadith believe that God changes with respect to the perception and belief of believers. Ibn Arabi accepted the idea of God's vision from the Ash'arite theologians and, in an innovative approach, added the theory of divine transformation in the form of beliefs and beliefs of believers. The basis of this theory is a hadith that has been narrated in the Sunni sources of narration and has generally become one of the beliefs of the scholars of Hadith. This article aims to criticize and examine this theory based on Shiite theological principles in order to accurately explain Shiite beliefs using a descriptive analytical method in a comparative approach. It analyzes and examines the theory of God's transformation in the thought of the scholars of Hadith and Ibn Arabi, and then criticizes it with the Imami theological principles. The findings of the research show that the hadith of transformation is not reliable because it is not narrated in Shiite sources and all its attributions end with Abu Hurairah and it contradicts rational arguments and Quranic principles. The results of the discussion are as follows: The theory of transformation is not compatible with the principle of God's being abstract and not corporeal. Also, Ibn Arabi and his commentators consider fixed objects to be necessary for God's transformation. However, the fixed objects, due to their stability and lack of change, correspond to the stability and uniformity of God's manifestations and do not change according to the beliefs of believers.
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