The dignity of reason in the system of religious cognition
Author: Ayatollah Javadi Amoli
Publisher's speech
Praise is to the eternal God is a worthy gem only the goers
of the arena wisdom and heart will benefit. Thanks for the high mission of
Prophet Mohammad Mustafa
(peace be upon Mohammad and
his holy family) which accompany the purity of the mission with the best of
wisdom and reason. It is worthy of divine grace for
servants: Thanks God, only the entourage of God’s blessing are worthy of being
the guardians of the wisdom and the guardians of the tradition.
What establishes the principle of all goodness and perfect
is proper science and perfect knowledge: “Science is the principle of all
goodness.” The world of best, which is based on divine knowledge and
gnosis, is always goodness and advisable from the current and the field of its
development.
The universe which presents in two directions of
creation and genesis: From the point of view of divine knowledge, the Divine
knowledge, which is the divine will, has created the religion from creation and
created the world of creation, therefore, those who think in the two domains
mentioned above and The scholars of the abstract and experimental sciences are
both aspiring to divine will and ultimately divine knowledge, because
knowledge, which is the same as discovery, intuition, and attendance, is
nothing more than a revelation of the divine knowledge and knowledge of the
Lord: and none of Them will ever encompass anything of Allah's Knowledge except
as much Allah Wills. Al-Baqarah (255)
Seminary scholars and academic scholars, although in terms
of the method of studying Knowledge and in terms of what it relates to
Knowledge, that is the same knowable, are distinct from each other; but from
the path of science and advancement to the domain of divine knowledge are the
same; in other words, natural scientists who study the world of creation
and genesis empirically and the divine science scholars who are referring to
the world of compilation with an abstract method in that both are in the domain
of divine will and knowledge, they are common; though they differ from other
directions. In this way, the sciences with any title and subject that
investigate in any way are all divine and cannot be empty of the principle of
agent and purpose is in the divine will, because the research of phenomena and
creations, whether in the world of compilation or in the world of genesis, is
identity less and incompleteness without a viewpoint to the principle of agent
and purpose in it, although the contemporary world and the scholars of science
are trying to impose scientific secularism on science. As the universe has
turned the creation into nature and denied or neglected the origin and end and
they have separated the sciences from nature (and not creation) from the origin
and end, they do not accept any the origin and end for it.