Analytical-Critical Study of Mirdamad's Approach to Suhrawardi's View on How to Refer Time Priority to Natural Priority

The issue of time and how there is precedence and lag among its components is one of the important issues in Islamic philosophy. In Ibn Sina's view, the precedence and latency among the components of time is of the type of precedence and latency of time, but Suhrawardi believes that this precedence should be referred to precedence and delay. Mirdamad has taken a critical approach to the view of Sheikh Ishraq. He has expressed two criticisms of Suhrawardi's view and finally has tried to portray the precedence and latency of course from another direction among them, in addition to the existence of precedence and latency. The essential unity between them and the validity of external separation in the precedence and latency of time are two criticisms of Mirdamad. He considered the validity of the non-association of them with each other as correcting the truth of precedence and time lag and the validity of the need and stopping of some components of time over others as the permission of the truth of precedence and natural delay. The purpose of this article is to first explain Sheikh Ishraq's point of view, then to explain Mirdamad's criticisms carefully, and finally to criticize and study a part of Mirdamad's approach by comparative analytical method.