Explaining the Stages of Human Being’s Evolution during Childhood According to Allameh Tabatabaie’s Viewpoint on Descent Process

Childhood is one of the most significant levels that could be recognized as the most effective period of human being's nurture. According to the verses of the Quran and the narrations of the Prophet and Masumin, human being goes through seven levels during the process of evolution, and childhood includes two of those levels. Allameh Tabatabaei believes that the story of human being's descent (Hobout) has occurred after breathing God's spirit into human's body and it includes two levels. These two levels are in line with the childhood's growing stages. Descent of human being doesn't mean a physical displacement from heaven to the earth as the way rain falls down on the earth. The world (Dunya) is not a static reality which human being is placed in during the descent. However, it is a new perspective to human being and a new perception which appears to him. Descent differs from physical creation, so that the story of breathing spirit into physical body is not recognized as descent. The fact is that human being is present in the spiritual level of the existence, and the divine covenant (Mithaq) and Adam's paradise are meaningful for him even in the fetal period.By approaching the forbidden tre,e human being wished to achieve both levels of unity and plurality and wanted to become eternal. However, since he had not the capacity of such a level, he was distracted from unity and became concentrated on plurality. Therefore, descent is a change of infant's perception from transcendental world to the physical world. During this process, child will gradually get acquainted with the levels of his perceptions and his body's requirements and look for fulfillment of his needs through conventional perceptions (Itibariat) mechanism. The present research has been done using a descriptive-analytical method.