Ayatollah Mesbah Yazdi's View on the Nature of Islamic Humanities

Islamic humanities have been viewed in various approaches. For Allamah Mesbah, knowledge consists in discovering the real and Islam is the unique Divine right religion that introduces the ways of happiness and misery in the fields of values and beliefs. Religious science, being related to human happiness and misery in the two fields, therefore, would be the one of certainty that is extracted from religious sources with a valid methodology. Though there may be found different problems in the fields of such sciences as natural sciences, medicine and …, regarding the function of religion as preparing the ground for human happiness, religious science must be defined with this consideration. Such being the case, we may not consider any scientific and valid statement as religious. Religion is not of such a duty as discovering causative relations phenomena; necessary function of religion lies in knowing and explaining the things effective in human happiness and misery. As stated, human optional actions are of high importance in the ground. On this basis, humanities should be regarded as those studying human optional and knowledgeable actions with their rules, effect and consequences as is seen in the cases of ethics and laws. And finally, regarding Allamah`s thought on the high and unique status of humanities in human thought and style of life, islamization of sciences would be established in the area of Islamic humanities.