Bada in Mir Damad's Philosophical System

Bada’ (alteration in divine will) is one of the important issues about the relationship between the contingent and the pre-eternal. The main question of this article is; given the impossibility of the occurrence of change in the Divine Essence and Essential knowledge, how can we explain the truth of Bada’ and the way of the occurrence of obliteration and establishment? Is attributing Bada' to God real or metaphorical? In Mir Damad's philosophical system, there is a comprehensive explanation of the doctrine of Bada’. Bada’ in Mir Damad's view falls in the province of ontology, and indicates the limitation to the time of effusion placed by the Cause. Bada’ is conclusively connected the material world, and the world of sempiternity has nothing to do with Bada’. Using a descriptive-analytical method, this paper explains the idea of Bada’ in Mir Damad philosophical system. One of the most important results of this research is explaining the truth of Bada’ in the philosophical system of Mirdamad and the nature of attributing Bada’ to God. According to Mir Damad, gradual affairs are double-faced; that is, they are related to the world of sempiternity, as well as to the material world, and so, they are gradual and changeable. In the first facet, they are attributed to the constant right of the Necessary by-itself and, in the second facet, they are attributed to the temporal contingents to the Necessary.