Ma`rifat Falsafi

Shahid Mutahhari holds that abjad is not real arithmetic but fiction and it can thus not show any truth. Ayatullah Javadi Amoli also argues that the category of quantity exclusively belongs to the material and imaginal worlds and its lasso does not reach the intelligibles. It seems that the two philosophical and arithmetical approaches are apparently not related to each other; they actually deny a mutual correlation, though; because if abjad arithmetic were a real and true "numbering", its "enumerated thing" would be nothing but of "intelligibles" and "abstract meanings", their enumeration is in terms of letters and words, though. Apparently, to enumerate concepts and "intelligibles" is not impossible as such. What is impossible is the enumeration due to the shape and weight and the like, which, of course, concepts are stripped of. The definitions and applications provided by masters of philosophy and wisdom such as Ibn Turkah and Mirdamad show that this enumeration is not only possible, but also, thanks to the calculation of "abjad", has occurred. Because it leads to the discovery of the phrases "sharing in quantity and meaning"; phrases different in terms of the combination of letters, nonetheless common in terms of quantity and quality (spirit of meaning); and because the mentioned double sharing, as a design, is of the same cognation of knowledge and will of Allah, rather than those of him who coins the terms or uses the phrases, it can be proved by a priori proof (ratio esendi). Abjad arithmetic is also true and divine, along with enumerated entities of the cognation of meanings. The ambiguity of such major terms can be resolved by means of the movable and concrete minor terms mentioned in the text.