The present essay considers the relationship between intellect and revelation from Allameh Tabatabaii’s point of view. According to his view point intellect is prior to revelation and the concepts which derived from intellect and revelation will prove this claim. Secondly, we will consider the reasons of precedence of intellect according to the documents and some of his works.
With reviewing the principles designed by Tabatabaii, it seems that the issue of contradiction between intellect and revelation is basically obviated; because two elements of the threefold conditions of certainty of revelation are mainly evaluated by philosophical intellect. Thus, plenary revelation that is completely in contrast to absolute intellect will never obtain.
Among many considerable points concerning interpretation of this relationship, three basic points, that used by Allameh Tabatabaii, are as follow:
-Identity of philosophy and intellect;
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