Document Type : Original Article

Author

• zahra ramezanlu

philosophy & Islamic study/ art & humanities/ Azad university/ Zanjan

Abstract

In monotheistic religions, God Is described with many attributes including knowledge, will, the creator, and idol which indicates God as a “Personal-God”. Such descriptions also have been repeated many times in Islamic sources. In the meantime, for having a concept and imagination of God, the book of “Al-Kafi, Kitāb at-tawḥīd” is one of the most unfeigned sources, which is presented by The Infallibles. What this article intends to address is the question of whether it is possible to talk about the personality of God, according to the narrations of the book of “Al-Kafi” and the attributes of God in them. The narrations of this book have been studied by the descriptive-analytics method to explain the answer to this question. This study of the mentioned narrations shows that although the constructive attributes such as being the creator, hearer, and insightful and things like Bada’ are mentioned, negative and purifying expressions about God are much more than positive and predictive expressions. Finally, according to the purification of God in the narrations, it is considered impossible to know the concept of God except through intermediaries and through verses and signs.

Keywords

• Al-Kafi
• Kitāb at-tawḥīd
• personal
• selfhood
• divine attributes