Explaining the Ontological Foundations of Futurology with the Islamic Approach

The ontological foundations in futurology represent the perspective of the futurologist about existence. Before futurology, the ontological approach to future must be clarified, because only when the futurological perspective of the future is determined on the basis of the ontology of the future, one can gain a proper and accurate understanding of the future and its related propositions. Without a precise approach to existence, the process of futurology cannot be pursued in a desirable and effective manner. In this research, following the main approaches to the ontological foundations of futurology, a conceptual framework was created based on theoretical foundations, and then, by referring to religious and philosophical sources, the needed data were collected and analyzed by using the descriptive-analytical method. After describing the propositions and analyzing them, three foundations were identified: “the difference between the degrees and the actual fact of existence”, “the existence of causal relations in the system of being” and “the necessary concomitance of time and movement as the ontological foundations of futurology”.