A study of the anthropological foundations of Islamic humanities from the perspective of Allameh Mesbah Yazdi

The humanities claim to describe the reality of man and society.And considers himself responsible for explaining relationships, drawing goals, and expressing how to achieve those goals.Therefore,it is necessary for human beings to be properly recognized as the central subject of these studies. Who is a human being?What are its features?How much does his voluntary will and behavior affect his ultimate happiness and perfection?And what is the role of humanities in his evolution and in the construction of Islamic civilization?According to Allameh Mesbah Yazdi,Islamic humanities are of special importance due to the definition of religion and its unique role in explaining human happiness and misery and its close relationship with human voluntary behavior and the role of humanities in thinking and life style and ultimately human happiness and misery.The humanities are based on the foundations of fundamental thought and ideas and form the basis of human civilizations.Understanding these ideas and how they affect the humanities shows the exact points of confrontation between Islamic civilization and Western culture.In his view,it is not correct to study empirically enough human relations and phenomena.Rather,reason and experience in many cases do not understand the relationship between human actions and their afterlife.On the other hand, by proving the single soul to man,the concept of happiness and its extension is beyond the framework of the material world,we will need to refer to divine revelation as a method and a valid source of knowledge.