Man is a curious,
questioning being who seeks answers to his questions. He is always after
questioning knowledge, scholars, the known, intentions, results and values of
knowledge and these conditions peak up in him when he finds knowledge with two
contradictory attributes, that is, light and veil. Hence he wants to know how a
truth that is considered “clear in its essence and clearer for others” can
become a veil, indeed the greatest veil. The present article discusses various
categories of knowledge, that is, the general and absolute knowledge and
specific and specialized science, which is experimental knowledge based on
experiment and test. Also reference has been made to the ideas of some scholars
who consider knowledge coextensive with being and light. The main focus of this
paper is the gnostical ideas of Imam Khomeini who considers knowledge a feature
of primordial nature, attributing it to the illuminated aspects of the being of
creatures. Imam Khomeini also maintains that all beings concomitant with the
limits of their existence are the manifestation of the All-Knowing (Alim),
a Name of the Lord. He also maintains that knowledge and awareness are the keys
to the creatures’ praise for the Lord and the secret of man’s eternalization
and celestialization.  He maintains that
true knowledge can be acquired through the heaven and any grade of this
knowledge is concomitant with the grades of heaven (deeds, attributes,
essence). He also maintains very suave points from the Alaq Chapter of the holy
Quran on the value and status of knowledge