analysis of the concept of evil in the discourse of islamic philosophy in a dialogue with the semantic sphere of the qur'an

The stable or semi-stable ideas of muslim philosophers about evil have had an important influence on their way of reading the state of evil in the universe and also their perception of the relationship between evil and god. ignoring these ideas before any propositional and logical analysis may lead to a misunderstanding of their opinions and prevent accurate criticism of the issues related to the subject of evil. in this article, based on the importance of perception over confirmation, we analyze the concept of the meaning of evil in the discourse of islamic philosophy and compare it with the quranic application of this concept. the present research tries to answer this main question: to what extent have muslim philosophers paid attention to the quranic application of this concept and its semantic components in providing solutions for the problem of evil? our intended conceptual analysis method began with the analysis of the ideas of muslim philosophers and this process continued until all three types of ambiguity in the studied works were resolved: linguistic ambiguity, mental ambiguity, and objective ambiguity. linguistic and mental ambiguity are respectively related to the word evil and the concept of evil, and objective ambiguity is related to the position of identifying the example of evil. then, by studying the semantic network of evil in the structure of the qur an and analyzing the semantic achievements made in this matter, we have compared the qur anic application of this concept with the idea of muslim philosophers on the issue of evil. the results show that contrary to the general concept of evil in the philosophical discourse—that is, something that they do not desire—the qur anic meaning has been conceptualized in a new way in the context of the double scheme of unlikable-likable versus evil-good . this conceptualization can lead to a review of the previous categories of evil (natural evil and moral evil) and suggest a new category of real and imaginary evil .