Becoming (Seyrurat) in the Islamic Philosophy and Modernism

Becoming has a very important stance in the idea of Islamic philosophers and also modern Western thought. Becoming in Islamic thought means the evolution and this evolution means approach to God. The issue has a more detailed discussion in Mullah Sadra's philosophy regarding the substantive motion; because, continually, the potentiality turns into actuality. The thinkers like Allameh Tabatabayi and Motahari as Transcendent Wisdom exponents, following this theory, have discussed about the sense of becoming. In the West, becoming and movement in any field considered as development and evolution. This attitude has created a huge conflict in the West; So that at the present time, people are the victims of permanent becoming of modernity. Marshall Berman is a thinker who seeks a way to save the modern man from this conflict, employing the ideas of Marx. The present study compared the Motahari’s idea with Marshall Berman’s thought about becoming from Islamic perspective and modernity.