Abstract

The problem of vision and hearing and demonstrating them for the Almighty is one of the issues which has raised a lot of discussions regarding Divine Names and Attributes among Islamic philosophers. A comparison of the views of philosophers such as Shaykh Ishraq and Mulla Sadra, as well as those of the commentators of Transcendent Philosophy, represents their disagreements on this issue. Here, unlike what early philosophers believed, Imam Khomeini is of the view that these two attributes cannot be referred back to other attributes and are of independent meanings. In other words, he holds that vision and hearing are of the types of Knowledge which are added to the essence of knowledge itself and are among Almighty's Absolute Perfections. As a result, they are necessary to be demonstrated for Him, Who is the origin of being Himself and the source of perfection of being.