Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran

The agency (practical faculty of Divine) of God Almighty has a strong presence in all aspects of his life from the perspective of a religious believer, which encourages Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, plural: adʿīya, أدعیة, the supplication or request of people from God) to achieve the desired and ensures its...

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Main Authors: Mahdi Hematian, Mehdi Ekhlasi Fardad, Alireza Majdara
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Published: Razavi University of Islamic Sciences 2024-02-01
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description The agency (practical faculty of Divine) of God Almighty has a strong presence in all aspects of his life from the perspective of a religious believer, which encourages Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, plural: adʿīya, أدعیة, the supplication or request of people from God) to achieve the desired and ensures its acceptance is a manifestation of this presence. Therefore, the analysis of the relationship between natural law as inviolable and the effect of factors such as prayer as the basis of Divine agency is one of the fundamental issues that has attracted the minds of religious scholars in eliminating (Arabic: رَفْع, Romanized: Rafʿ) and refusing (Arabic: دَفْع, Romanized: Dafʿ) natural disasters in the creation system. In a sense, the fulfillment of supplications to the causality is considered incompatible and a breach of the laws governing nature. On the other hand, some believe that the fulfillment of supplications does not conflict with the law of nature and can be analyzed in the same way. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly explain the fulfillment of supplications and its relationship with the causality considering the place of supplication and its impact on the intellectual system derived from religion. Accordingly, the purpose of this article, which has been organized by documentary analytical method, is to investigate how Duʿāʾ affects the system of natural law system as one of the challenges of the believer’s life. The findings of this research show that from the perspective of the Holy Quran, the fulfillment of supplications is evaluated as a manifestation of Divine agency, as the realization of a phenomenon due to supplications and in light of the effect of supernatural causes on material things is not outside the rules governing nature.
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spelling doaj-art-14fe667a17e64f5482c1ea78da7746742025-08-20T03:32:03ZfasRazavi University of Islamic Sciencesآموزه‌های قرآنی2251-93782783-40852024-02-01203823726410.30513/qd.2023.3982.18721688Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy QuranMahdi Hematian0Mehdi Ekhlasi Fardad1Alireza Majdara2PhD in Quran & Sciences, Al-Mustafa International University, QomGraduated from the Jurisprudential Center of Aʾimmah al-Aṭhār(AS), QomMA of Jurisprudence & Fundamentals of Islamic Law, University of QomThe agency (practical faculty of Divine) of God Almighty has a strong presence in all aspects of his life from the perspective of a religious believer, which encourages Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, plural: adʿīya, أدعیة, the supplication or request of people from God) to achieve the desired and ensures its acceptance is a manifestation of this presence. Therefore, the analysis of the relationship between natural law as inviolable and the effect of factors such as prayer as the basis of Divine agency is one of the fundamental issues that has attracted the minds of religious scholars in eliminating (Arabic: رَفْع, Romanized: Rafʿ) and refusing (Arabic: دَفْع, Romanized: Dafʿ) natural disasters in the creation system. In a sense, the fulfillment of supplications to the causality is considered incompatible and a breach of the laws governing nature. On the other hand, some believe that the fulfillment of supplications does not conflict with the law of nature and can be analyzed in the same way. Therefore, it is necessary to correctly explain the fulfillment of supplications and its relationship with the causality considering the place of supplication and its impact on the intellectual system derived from religion. Accordingly, the purpose of this article, which has been organized by documentary analytical method, is to investigate how Duʿāʾ affects the system of natural law system as one of the challenges of the believer’s life. The findings of this research show that from the perspective of the Holy Quran, the fulfillment of supplications is evaluated as a manifestation of Divine agency, as the realization of a phenomenon due to supplications and in light of the effect of supernatural causes on material things is not outside the rules governing nature.https://qd.razavi.ac.ir/article_1688_9f024882b3f0add0dccb05fff2b2c28a.pdfduʿāʾlaw of naturedivine agencycausationnatural causessupernatural causesquantum mechanics
spellingShingle Mahdi Hematian
Mehdi Ekhlasi Fardad
Alireza Majdara
Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran
آموزه‌های قرآنی
duʿāʾ
law of nature
divine agency
causation
natural causes
supernatural causes
quantum mechanics
title Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran
title_full Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran
title_fullStr Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran
title_full_unstemmed Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran
title_short Belief in Divine Agency and Its Non-Contradiction with the Laws Governing Nature by a Comparative Approach to Duʿāʾ (Arabic: دعاء, Supplication or Request of People from God) from the Perspective of the Holy Quran
title_sort belief in divine agency and its non contradiction with the laws governing nature by a comparative approach to duʿaʾ arabic دعاء supplication or request of people from god from the perspective of the holy quran
topic duʿāʾ
law of nature
divine agency
causation
natural causes
supernatural causes
quantum mechanics
url https://qd.razavi.ac.ir/article_1688_9f024882b3f0add0dccb05fff2b2c28a.pdf
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