The Relationship between the Existence of God and the Possible Existents: A Study of Mirdamad's Perspective

The typology of the existence of God and the existence of possibilities is one of the ambiguous issues in philosophical theology. One of the Islamic philosophers is Mirdamad. In his works on explaining the relationship between the existence of God and the possible existents, there are issues that sometimes seem contradictory. Many of his philosophical principles such as ontological ones, objective proportion of cause and effect, the principle of "the giver of an object cannot be without it", the rule of "nothing can be issued from a single object except one", the closeness of creatures to God and their distance from Him, divine knowledge and the union of the knower and the known, are consistent with being of the same type. But some of his other principles, such as the famous utterance of the principality of essence, are more closely related to the contrast between the existence of God and the existence of possibilities. The study and analysis of Mirdamad's theories on this issue led to the conclusion that he accepted the similarity between the existence of God and the existence of possibilities and did not consider the contrast between them to be absolutely correct. Similarity has consequences that Mirdamad's works are consistent with.