Causality and Islamic Thought

Abstract

The present writing deals with and analyzes discussions of causality in Islamic thought. In this context, patterns of causality were specifically invetigated in traditions of thought for Theology, Philosopy, and Sufism. The teachings all maintain the linear conception of causality in theolgy and philosophy with exception of doctrines of some of theologians, while in Sufi philosophical teachings the linear concept of causality was abandon wholly. The theologians often gave two contrary of the terms cause and effect: first a cause is a thing that precedes its effect choronologically, and second, a cause is always together with its effect. The order of existence is a cause and effect sequence in Islamic peripatetism The Sufi doctrine of causality in itself is singular in Islamic thought. For example, according to Sufi thinker Ibn Arabi, causality is not, a relations between cause and effect, but an inner relation of an essence that may be imagined.