معرفت

“Imagination of God” is one of the important issues that affect various aspects of individual and social life. Imagination of God in Islamic ontology forms the pivot of people’s religiosity. It is considered an important factor in the formation and evolution of religious beliefs and is one of the most basic aspects of the belief system of believers. Considering the difference between the Islamic view and the psychological view of the construct of imagination of God, examining it based on the Islamic perspective will reveal other dimensions of this construct. The present study aims at examining the construct of imagination of God based on the divine names in verses and hadiths. The divine names were extracted from the Holy Quran and the famous narration of the Holy Prophet, and were analyzed through content analysis and the theories of the domains of semantics such as synonymy, polysemy, lexical domain, semantic inclusion and component analysis. It was concluded that the construct if imagination of God based on the divine names has two dimensions : essence and action; The essence dimension includes the three axes of essence, divine Majesty and sanctification, and the action dimension consists of two axes: creation and lordship. The axis of creation includes the four categories of knowledge, creation, possession and power, and the axis of Lordship includes six categories of being merciful, forgiving, helpful, provider, grateful and reckoner.