Department of Islamic Philosophy, Center for Specialized Education of Islamic Philosophy, Qom Seminary
Abstract
Some consider miracles to be the cause of the law of causality. Many Western thinkers have also tried to explain miracles through empirical sciences, but due to lack of success, a group has denied the occurrence of miracles despite much historical evidence. A group also considers miracle as a conflict with science, has accepted it as an unscientific event and believes that miracle is not explained by natural causes. Islamic philosophers, since they consider causality beyond the current laws and means in the world of nature, have proved miracle through reason, do not consider its occurrence to be in violation of the law of causality and differ between violations of the law of causality and violation of natural law. In other words, from the point of view of rulings, what is violated in miracles is not the true cause.
