Allameh Tabatbaei’s Views on the Relation of Apophatic Theology to the Ontology of Divine Attributes

Apophatic theology, as an important theory in the field of the language of religion, has many supporters in Jewish, Christian, and Islamic theology, and a firm link continue to exist between them in the three areas of ontology, epistemology, and semantics of divine attributes. Based on the findings of this research, Allameh Tabatabai, in some philosophical and mystical treatises, and in some instances in his Tafsir al-Mizan, while passing through positive theology in the field of the ontology of divine attributes and being influenced by some mystics, especially Sayyid Ahmad Krbalaeie, accepted apophatic theology in this area, and believed that great philosophers such as Farabi, Ibn Sina and even Mulla Sadra did not have any idea of this viewpoint. According to Allameh Tabatabai, the infinitude of the divine nature on the one hand, and the limitation of abstract understanding, on the other, justifies the apophatic theology and prevents the acceptance of positive theology while confirming the variety of the concepts of perfection on the divine nature.