Abstract

Shaykh Shihab al-Din Yahya Suhrawardi is one of the few truly pragmatist sages who has employed all his philosophical achievements in putting his religious and epistemic beliefs into practice consciously. One of the extremely important topics discussed in his philosophical system is ' suspended images or Ideas'. He has presented a new version of this issue in the light of which he has tried to justify a great number of prophets' promises and miracles, saints' act of Divine grace, and certain paranormal human acts.The writer has tried to examine this issue extensively through relying on Shaykh's own works and those of some of his most distinguished commentators. He has also dealt with the effects and consequences of this issue in this paper.