Abstract:
The reminding function (reminding the innate knowledge) is one of the main functions of revelation. In order to put this function into practice, the divine prophets and God’s saints used various ways, including explication (explaining the innate covenant, is content, and its qualities), education (teaching religion, worshipping, and prayer), motivation (creating existential moods that cause solicitation and compulsion), and prevention (removing the obstacles against innate disposition).
Machine summary:
In order to put this function into practice, the divine prophets and God’s saints used various ways, including explication (explaining the innate covenant, is content, and its qualities), education (teaching religion, worshipping, and prayer), motivation (creating existential moods that cause solicitation and compulsion), and prevention (removing the obstacles against innate disposition).
In the fourth interpretation, it is said that the sentence “God exists” means that every human understand the existence of God through intuitive knowledge (Sa‘īdīmehr, 2013, vol.
Although these interpretations are dissimilar in the way they explain the innateness of the premise “God exists,” they all agree that the human’s knowledge of God does not need argumentation, and the human knows God by intuitive cognition and finds Him inside himself.
v. Rashād: 2006) or philosophical reasons (Mūsawī farāz, 2002: 49-50) for the abstractness of soul to prove the human’s innate knowledge about God. However, the ultimate thing that can be proved by these arguments is the existence of a series of common emotions, tendencies, and perceptions in the ego of all humans that form the basis of these laws.
It should be noted that prophets and Imāms sometimes remove the mental obstacles before using the extroversive signs to remind the innate knowledge, and the person confirms the existence of God mentally.
The intuitive cognition along with numerous verses and narrations can be considered as important evidences for the existence of innate knowledge about God in the human.