Examination and Analysis of the Views of Mulla RajabAli Tabrizi on the Divine Names and Attributes

In the discussion of the divine names and attributes, Mulla RajabAli Tabrizi, as the leader of the philosophical trend opposing the Transcendental Wisdom (al-Hikamat ul-Muta’aliyyah), has views are completely different of the Transcendental Wisdom and near to the Kalami views. By negating any kind of cognation (senkhiyyah) between the necessary and the contingent and believing in pure heterogeneousness between God and creation and also believing in the heteronym of being and attributes of the necessary and the contingent as well as negating any shared meaning in this regard, he results the theory of negation of the divine attributes and believes in the divine essence deputyships of the attributes in the discussion of the ontology of the divine attributes. Because there is no concept indicating the divine essence and its perfections in his point of view, the positive theology is not acceptable in the semantics of the divine attributes. He proposes three kind of theology as negative, action and functional that accordingly the divine names return to negation of the imperfections or to creation of perfections or function of perfections. But by proposing this type of theology, there appear some issues and problems such as leading to negation of the two contradictories, leading to entering middle between negation and affirmation and the impossibility of proving the existence of God. Mulla RajabAli answered these problems on his own bases. In fact, these problems have been proposed on some bases that are not accepted by Tabrizi. The most important deficiency of Mulla RajabAli’s point of view is the ignorance of the heart and innate knowledge of God.