Seddiqin Argument

Seddiqin Argument (Persian: برهان صدیقین‎‎) or the argument of the righteous is an argument for the existence of God in Islamic philosophy. This argument was explained by Islamic philosophers such as Avicenna, Mulla Sadra and Muhammad Husayn Tabataba'i.

Seddiqin means the argument of the sincere men or truthful ones. Seddiqin refers to Those who are just only argue for the God's existence through God. In other words, in this argument, the existence of God argued through only the existence. According to Legenhausen the Seddiqin is synonym with sincere, sincere is antonym with hypocritical.The word "Seddiqin" is a sighah mubalighah in Arabic grammar which shows extra attribution.Consequently, Seddiqin means those who are extremist in faith and belief.

The Seddiqin counted as one of the lasting and permanent argument in Islamic philosophy for the existence of God.This argument also posed by most of Islamic philosophers in different explanation to justify the Necessity Being.It seems that one who first presented the argument is Avicenna. after him, many of Islamic philosophers try to show other explanation of the Seddiqin argument.

Avicenna detailed the argument for the existence of God in three books namely Al-ShifaThe Book of Healing and Al-Nejat and Al-isharat wa al-tanbihat. it seems that for the first time applied the argument of Seddiqin. According to Muhammad Legenhausen little pay attention to Avicenna's proof of sincere.Avicenna described the argument as seddiqin( Borhane seddiqin) because this argumentation applies by those who are truthful.According to Avicenna, those who are truthful persons, their argument is pure truth while there is no symbols of untruthfulness in their argumentation.In other words, Seddiqin witness to existence of God and truth just only by one argument which is the essence of Truth and God. Avicenna refers to the argument as follows:

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