Abstract

Morteza Motahhari was a celebrated Iranian philosopher who proposed a solution to the problem of evil derived from the Holy Quran and the medieval Muslim philosophers Avicenna and Mulla Sadra. He argues that evil is nonexistent or the lack of goodness. He assumes that some types of evil are relative and emphasizes the importance of viewing the world holistically. He claims that the necessity of evil reveals the role of suffering in the development of the human soul. This paper examines Motahhari’s view and the sources that influenced him.