The Nature of Tawill from the Viewpoint of Ibn Timiyyah and Allamah Tababai

There are two epistemological and ontological views on the nature of tawill (esoteric interpretation). The question of this research is the nature of tawill from the point of view of Ibn Timiyyah and Allamah Tababai. Thus, after examining the literal and terminological meanings of tawill and its usages in the Quranic applications, this research introduces these two views and then explains the ontological view from the viewpoint of Ibn Timiyyah and Allamah Tababai in detail. In the continuation, Ayatullah Marefat criticisms of these two views have been examined. This article results in that the proposed ontological criticisms against the ontological view are unable to prove the incorrectness and unacceptability of this view as well as its deficiency with both its two explanation is that it does not include all the usecases of tawill in the Qurnic usages. It is the common deficiency which the epistemological view also suffers from.