mulla sadra shirazi by his fundamentals like fundamentality of existence, existential gradation and the unity of being, believes that love equals being and explains how the love moves in all particles in the universe. he maintains that love is divine nature of human existence and it is full of wisdom and expediency sees. although the description of love by the theory of fundamentality of existe...

two meanings regarding the principality of existence (isālat al-wujūd) can be inferred from the works and words of mulla sadra. one meaning is the objectivity of existence and essence on which many issues of transcendental philosophy are based. this meaning has deep philosophical consequences and implications. it seems that this meaning causes certain problems which make its acceptance tricky. ...

some of the islamic philosophers such as farabi and mulla sadra supporting the belief in sacred and divine revelation, began to give a philosophical explanation in the field. in philosophical explanation of revelation, revealed facts can be divided into two: general and particular, perceived respectively by the prophet`s intellect and imagination. both the philosophers when explaining divine re...

priority of the soul to the body is one of the issues in the studies on the soul concept, long being the subject of debate and contest by islamic scholars. in addition, many narratives of infallible imams have been quoted on this topic. mulla sadra shirazi has been of a specific view on this issue. he has rejected the priority of the soul to the body in terms of multiplicity and disjunction and...

the theory of perfect man that was dispersed in published works of islamic thinkers, started out as an independent subject and eventually annotations were added to it. the ontological aspect of this issue has been reviewed several times. however, the worldly functions of the perfect man have not been analyzed yet. unlike some mystics and sufis who limit the perfect man to practice in spiritual ...

mulla sadra uses his own principles in the debate over unity, multiplicity and graded unity of being to develop a profound interpretation from the noble tradition “there is no compulsion and volition but something in between”. this approach is formed via exposing the meaning of hierarchy in sadra’s theosophy, human deeds are attributed both to the individual himself and the divine will. his bre...

mulla sadra, regards existence as something simple and gradual. rather, he believes that human being have one identity. it is, however, of simplicity and gradation both. for him there are close relation between the stages of soul and the degrees of existence and perceptions. as a result of this relation, every one of human perceptions connects with one of degrees of existence. the knower, in mu...