Tools and Factors of Prosperity in Ideas of Farabi, Avicenna and Khwajeh Nasiruddin Tusi

Farabi, Avicenna and Khwajeh Nasiruddin Tusi raises the question, how is prosperity acquired in the framework of four factors? Is it acquired through outward areas, factors and tools (outside human soul), or outward tools are not required while inward areas like self-purification? In response, they regard it is acquired through factors and tools outside human soul, meaning civil tools. They tie prosperity to social dimensions of man and political system and say its acquisition can be achieved through promised desirable political system and civilians interaction based on wisdom and Shari’ah and distance from introvert political philosophies that pursue human prosperity through merely individual, spiritual and other-worldly tools and factors. To this aim, they prescribe a typically political system titled “Utopia” engineering and architecture of which could be designed for attainment of other-worldly-worldly, spiritual-material-individual prosperity.