Comparative Theology (Jul 2010)
A Criticism on Everlasting Torment in Hell and Mulla-Sadra’s Opinion and It’s Comparison with Verses and Hadiths
Abstract
The issue of “everlasting torment in Hell for some wrongdoers” is rooted in Quran and Hadith. Such a torment for sins which a human did during their short life is unreasonable and is against the Quranic verses which emphasis on vast remission of sins by Allah. It is also against the verses which assign the likelihood of everlasting torment to Allah’s providence and will. Mulla-Sadra tries to solve this controversy in his book called “Asfar va Al-Shavahed Al-Robubiya”. However dispite his novelistic interpretation, he is not able to solve it. He states in recent book “Arshiya” he states his last book that his final opinion matches with those verses which correspond with everlasting torment. However, his theory is not helpful to resolve the issue. Taking in an overall cosideratin of the corresponded verses and hadiths the current study attempts to solve the aforementioned controversy.
