Investigating the Approach of Islamic Theologians to the Nature and Movement

The issue of movement in the two systems of thought including Islamic philosophy and Islamic theology has followed two different paths. An important issue in this is to find those epistemological, methodological and ontological foundations that have led to the formation of the theologians' special approach to nature and movement. The problem of the article is: what is the approach of Islamic theologians to the question of nature and movement and what principles and what methods is it based on and studied with? According to the findings of the article, from their point of view, knowing nature means knowing God's actions and it leads to knowing God. Therefore, natural science is not an essentially sought knowledge, but an organic knowledge and a ladder to know the Supreme Being and His distinction from others. The negative epistemology of theologians is the main reason for believing in the corporeality of contingent world and believing in the individual substance, jawhar. Also, movement is not a single, connected, and gradual thing in its philosophical sense, but based on the theory of individual substance, four beings, akwan, and vaccum, khala`, movement is a discrete and a unique thing in transitional movement. This article deals with the problem in an analytical way.