Abstract

Fakhr Razi’s view about possible worlds and the best arrangement of things has two parts: 1) there exists a powerful being whose knowledge, power and all his other attributes are perfect and absolute, devoid of any deficiency; 2) this being is the One God whose all attributes are perfect, absolute and devoid of any deficiency, and can create a world with the best arrangements of things if He wills. Since a world, though with the best arrangement of things, cannot be absolute so there is always emptiness between its components, which makes their movement possible; or there is emptiness in the final state of this world, through which God can limit his creation to a world with best arrangement of things and can create different worlds with the same or different perfection in that emptiness. Therefore, there is no reason to limit God’s power and it cannot be said that God has created or creates only one world. Rather, His power and all other attributes are perfect, absolute and eternal and He can always create different worlds.