Ma`rifat Kalami

According to a Quranic teaching, God is not to be questioned of what He does (Al-Anbia’: 23). Examining the relationship between evaluation of the Divine actions and questioning them based on Allameh Tabataba'i's interpretation, this article tries to expand a new explanation of the unquestionability of God’s act. In a mathematical logic, "questioning" is a predicate with four parts: someone (1) questions someone else (2) about something (3) considering a specific criterion (4). The fourth part, i.e. the criterion of evaluation, in Allameh's interpretation of “la yus’al” (Al-Anbia’: 23), is the same as the third position, i.e. "God's act". He believes since the criterion for evaluating the acts of others is the wisdom and expediency derived from the Divine action, the Divine acts cannot be measured with this criterion. Therefore, the incommensurability of the Divine acts is a condition of its unquestionability. In addition to using the logic of predicates, this research also examines some of the epistemological foundations Allameh’s interpretation, in comparison with some opposite interpretations, in order to achieve a more accurate analysis of his view on the objectivity of the Divine act with wisdom.