A Reflection on Khwājah Naṣīr al-Dīn Ṭūsī's Responses to the Philosophers' Objections to the Religious Doctrine of God's Power

The divine power is one of the issues that the Muslim theologians and philosophers explored it from old times. Some of the Islamic philosophers consider the creation of the universe on the basis of essential power and will and then the universe as eternal. The theologians, on the contrary, believe that God at first leaved the creation of the world and then His power belonged to the creation of the world. Thus the universe is created. The philosophers do not accept their view and impose many objections on them. Khwājah Ṭūsī answers the objections of philosophers. By a library method and analytic way, this writing wants to analyze the objections of the philosophers and examine the answers of Khwājah Naṣīr to them from two angles: answers on the basis of the theological views and answers on the basis of the theological-philosophical way of Khwājah Naṣīr himself. The result of the analysis of these two philosophical and theological thoughts is that the answers of Khwājah to the objections on the pure theological views of the theologians are not sufficient. But despite the apparent conflict between his view and the philosophers' view about God's power, by distinguishing between the philosophers' ontological view and Khwājah Naṣīr's epistemological view, a solution can be found to the apparent conflict between the philosophers' and Khwājah's views on God's power.