Plato had declared an intelligent being for everything in nature. And they used to assume it to be the necessary being since they had given them the attributes of god. So they began calling them “similar”. The plural form of the word “Misl” is “Musul”. Plato believed that anything that had a reality was similar to that independent, unchanging, above time and place, complete and ever living entity. The material being that we witness are subject to various changes, and confined to time and space and are finite. They are just like the reflection and similar so they have the same relation with that exemplary being which is similar to the relation the shadow has with the body. According to Aristotle this manifest world of senses is unreal and the reality is that perfect world.
The belief in the example of Plato is different from the belief of those on the various kinds but has some similarities with those of Greek origin in philosophy. In the same way it is similar to those who believe in the perfect intelligence.
W e can explain it by saying that according to some philosophers since God is dominant in every sphere so his creation will be one and termed as “the first intelligence” they then say that when the “First Intelligence” is a defined entity then the “second intelligence” and the “first heaven” was created from it. And in this way they construct 10 intelligences and 9 layers of the heavens.
Some philosophers consider intelligence to be unlimited and the ten major intelligences in which one is the creation of another and also the intelligence of land. They are considered the source of “Sor noyia” and the highest status of material existence. Like the believers in variety and the example of Plato.
There are many debates about each one of these issues but as they are beyond our purview we will not be touching them.
What is important for us here is that we understand that Qura’n has competed against all these ideas. While dealing with all these polytheistic ideas the manner in which the Qura’n has proved the Oneness of Lordship and the pure Oneness may be termed as miraculous.
The Qura’n opposed and erased the ideology of false gods and imaginative lords and declared God to be the lord of the worlds and regarded everything as His creation and under His patronage and guidance. It bestowed the divine light in the hearts of people
Regarding oneness and drew their attention from all of them to the One and only God.
It is clear that pure oneness is not something that a person can achieve after a short stroll and it is necessary that the unseen hand should reach out to him with the revelation, help and guide him to the station of Oneness or the entity that is unique in His oneness. His apostles may come down and guide them out of the darkness of polytheism towards the light of oneness; to the fountain of everlasting life and quench his thirst.
1. The encyclopedia of Islamic philosophy
