Completeness of the Present System of Creation from the Perspective of Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra

The best possible system of creation is one of the issues discussed by different scholars. Ibn Sina and Mulla Sadra are among those raising this issue in a comprehensive way. Raising the issue of creative foreknowledge of God giving rise to the external world and explaining the issue of evils. Ibn Sina has considered the extant system as the best possible system of creation. Emphasizing the issue of divine knowledge. Explaining evils، and considering the inseparability of evils from the material world، and also taking the wisdom and teleonomy of divine acts، Mulla Sadra has considered the existence of a system better than the present one impossible. It seems that there is no fundamental difference between the two philosophers views except that Ibn Sina regards the creative foreknowledge related to the essence while Mulla Sadra considering it the same as the essence