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The Position of Intellect in the… S.J. Ebrahimi & H. Sadeqi (141

                  consideration,          have               Mohammadi  Sheikhi,
                  mentioned  four  major                     1999: 48-78)


                  following  meanings  for               - Saduq in his semantics’
                  good and bad;                          consideration believes in
                   •  Compatibility        and           Husn  va  Qubh  as  the

                      incompatibility  with              competence  for  being
                      nature:  Whatever  is              praised     and     blamed,
                      agreeable and pleasant             since he stated concerning

                      for  alive  being  is              to     substantiate       the
                      considered  as  good               contingency  (Huduth)  of
                      (Hasan) and whatever               the      universe,       that

                      in     contrast      and           whatever action commanded
                      unpleasant  is  bad                is praiseworthy and what
                      (Qabih), thus, we call             is       prohibited        is

                      pleasantness         and           reprehensible.      (Saduq,
                      unpleasantness as Husn             2000: 346)
                      va Qubh.

                   •  Compatibility        and           -  Knowing  the  ordered
                      incompatibility  with              and  prohibited  acts,  we
                      purposes             and           perceive actual good and

                      expediencies,                      bad (Husn va Qubh Fi’li).
                   •  Soul  perfection  and              Thus,  ethical  good  and
                      imperfection,                      bad include those actions

                   •  To  praise  and  blame             which        have       been
                                                         commanded and prohibited
                      or  the  competence                by Allah.

                      for being praised and
                      blamed.  (Javadi  and
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