A Study of Actual and Potential Nature from the Perspective of Ayatollah Javadi Amoli and Shahid Motahhari

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School of Islamic Education - Ethics, University of Quran and Hadith, Tehran Campus

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Most Islamic thinkers have accepted nature since it is based on Qur'anic and narrative arguments. Nature is a common interdisciplinary subject among many disciplines of the humanities. One of the aspects of nature is the stability of nature and the study of potential nature and actual nature. The subject of research in this paper is whether nature is potential or actual. The two are fundamentally different, leading to several other differences in different cultural, educational, and moral fields. This study has been conducted by a descriptive, analytical method and through comparing the views of Shahid Motahhari with Ayatollah Javadi Amoli. Assuming that in potential nature, its actualization depends on the environment and in actual nature, the environment can disable it, the characteristics, aspects, and results of each hypothesis were investigated. By emphasizing that God is the instructor of nature and the environment causes this fact to be neglected, and that the job of the Prophet and the educators in training human beings is to be reminder for them and remove their neglect, the hypothesis of nature was actually strengthened.

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Quranic Science Studies
Volume 3, Issue 2 - Serial Number 8
September 2021
Pages 26-46

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