Abstract

It was Ibn-Sina who for the first time posed an argument indicating that God's existence could be demonstrated without resorting to any creature as an intermediary. Ibn-Sina referred to verse 53 of Fusilat Chapter in the Holy Qur'an as a support for his argument and called it Burhani Siddiqin or argument of the righteous. Later Muslim philosophers tried to prove the same idea by relying on fewer premises; therefore, several accounts of this argument were provided in Islamic philosophy. Among all scholars, the great philosopher and gnostic of the time, Imam Khomeini, dealt with this issue following a basically different approach and introduced the argument of the righteous as an intuitive method for proving God's knowledge; a method which is free from the usual philosophical premises and can be verbalized only when being interpreted. It seems that such a conception of the argument of the righteous, while being novel, has been influenced by the meaning of the term 'burhan' in the Holy Qur'an.