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The Position of Intellect in the… S.J. Ebrahimi & H. Sadeqi (159

                  Research and perspective            Knowledge in the Thought
               might be considered as one             of Sheikh Saduq

               of  the  causes  to  recognize         In  the  thought  of  Sheikh
               and  discover  moral  rules.           Saduq,       knowledge        is
               Their intellectual obligation          against  of  ignorance,  and

               in  recognition  of  Allah  is         its scope is to be dominant
               executed  in  other  human             of    what     connotes      to.
               recognitions,        including         (Saduq, 2000: 135)

               moral  ones.  Furthermore,  the           Since  he  believed  in
               construction  of  a  recognition       knowledge  of  an  object  as
               from        research        and        sign     of    its    creation,
               perspective  is  one  of  the          declared that human actions

               pillars    for    a    belief’s        are  the  creatures  of  Allah
               moralization. (Locke, 2003: 440)       because He knows them all.

                  Since  to  believe  in  God         (Ibid, 1993: 30)
               is  categorized  in  the  scope           So,  knowledge  is  from
               of  voluntary  and  optional           Allah.      Sheikh       Saduq
               human       actions,     it   is       considered divine knowledge

               classified  as  a  moral  act          as selfsame  of  His  essence
               while  moral  acting  in  this         and  inaccessible  to  others.
               essential belief requires the          (Ibid, 2000: 31)

               application of research and               Allah said:
               perspective.                              “They  said,  ‘Immaculate
                                                         are  You!  We  have  no
                                                         knowledge  except  what

                                                         You  have  taught  us.
                                                         Indeed,  You  are  the  All-
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