Abstract

Mulla Sadra's philosophy has elements of Peripatetic Philosophy as well as the true foundation of Illuminationism. Mulla Sadra was able to combine his intellectual intuition with gnosis and derive the meaning of "being". He further joined this meaning with thesophical principles and based it on a logical foundation. It seems that the issue that Mulla Sadra was most preoccupied with was the corporeal resurrection. Mulla Sadra finally solved this issue in his celebrated book, Asfar. He laid the foundation for this principle and with precision unraveled his intentions.What determines his Transcendent Theosophy is the following eleven principles: The principality of being, unity of the gradation of being, motion in the category of substances or trans-substantial motion, simple or non-composite reality, the principle of the unity of the soul, the unity of the intellect and the intelligible, the immateriality of the faculty of imagination, and the three grades of being and their ascending relations. Mulla Sadra has asserted that these principles were established to prove the corporeal resurrection of man. He mentioned that some of these principles were invented by him and others were merely confirmed by him.Sheikh Sadra in his book al-Hashr also wrote about resurrection. In this treatise he gave a detailed account and proof of every step of creation from birth to resurrection; he even mentioned the resurrection of nature and of the first species. Mulla Sadra emphasized the three grades of being and the spiritual journey.