An Investigation and Criticism of the Negative Theology of Ghazi Saeed Qomi

Based on the fact that God's essence is absolute and Invisible, Ghazi Saeid believes He is not identifiable and has no name, no description, no attribute and no qualification. In other word, he believes that the essence of God is such that it is not possible to consider any plurality in it, including plurality of attribution; and God's names are an estate of the degrees of existence and are the manifestations of His hidden nature and are necessary for the manifestation of his absolute perfections. He attributes perfections and attributes to God – in his oneness degree, i.e. the degree of Names and attributes or the degree of Ism-o-llah – in an affirmative form and defers between the propositions of essence and attributes. Despite the accuracy of some bases of his thought, there are some criticisms to his sayings as well such as: confusion between theological and mystical discussions, inability to totalize the hidden meaning and the apparent meaning, believing in the separation of God from the world, the incompatibility between believing in the separation and the unity of being, believing in that God is veiled, and believing in that God is absolutely unidentifiable.