The Real and Right Unity of God in the Religious and Philosophical Thought of Allamah Tabatabai

The One is either real or unreal. The real One is either an essence attributed to unity or it is an essence identical with unity such that it is impossible to imagine plurality in it and this One has a real and right unity – which is different from numerical unity. In his religious and philosophical thought, Allamah Tabatabai denies the numerical unity of God on the one hand – because numerical unity leads to some restrictions for the One – and proves the real and right unity of God on the other hand; which means that in God's essence, unity is identical with essence and the One and the united are identical. Therefore no plurality may be supposed in His supreme essence; his essence is the absolute One and may not be divided in the outside world, in mind and reason and in conjecture. I will show, in this article that Allamah Tabatabai's religious thought corresponds with his philosophical thought in the subject of God's real and right unity. I have followed this purpose with a combinational method.