Humanistic Identity of a Divine Messenger in Imamiyeh Theologian's Thought

After the doctrine of monotheism, “prophecy” has had a particular position and influential function in religious system of thought. In regard to explicating the concept of prophet, the Muslim theologians have pointed out to factors such as humanistic, mediating and declarative identity of the prophet. The Imamiyeh theologians have been concerned in defining prophet more than Mu’tazili and Ash’arite theologians; therefore, these factors have been analyzed in Imamiyeh theological works with more explication. Meanwhile, the Muslim’s theologians’ statements in explicating the prophet’s identity as “being human” indicates the significance of this dimension of the truth of prophesy. The secret behind their concern to this humanistic identity that prophet’s human being is inseparable and related to many theological issues in the fields of “prophet” and “prophesy”; including “the possibility of Divine revelation to prophets”, “superiority of the prophets to angels”, “the possibility of prophet’s infallibility”, “free will approach in the prophets’ infallibility” and “the fact that prophets are examples”.