Abstract

According to divine philosophers, there is an Origin at the peak of the pyramid of being Who is the Necessary Being and is absolutely Independent. His Existence can be demonstrated based on rational arguments; however, it is not possible for human beings to know His Truth and Essence. This is because He is the Absolute Being. He can only be known through specific attributes that exclusively qualify Him. His characteristics are generally in contrast to those of possible beings. In other words, all of them reveal His Needlessness. In sum, "the Necessary Being" never needs and depends on the other, since He is the Origin of the existence of all existents of the world. Rather, He possesses every and all ontological perfections. Otherwise, He would be one of the existents of the world, who need another origin to exist. The present paper deals with a study and analysis of the characteristics of the Necessary Being from the viewpoint of Islamic philosophers.