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48 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (29): 39-71, Winter 2022
knowledge, that is, knowledge states that the highest perfection
of God and His attributes is the of the creation of the human is
way to perfection. So the divine knowledge and intuition
human needs heart and body of the beauty of God Almighty.
practice and worship because (Sadr ul-Din Shirazi, 1981,
his soul will be purified and Vol. 8: 136-137) Chopra also
grown due to religious rules thinks that the end of spiritual
and physical asceticism so that perfection is the mind’s closeness
the obedience to lusts will not to the soul. (Chopra, 2020: 301)
become a habit in his soul due It should be noted that from
to his lusts and worldly affairs; Sadra’s point of view, the
because it makes the human human soul can perfect in
unable to understand spiritual three stages based on the
pleasures such as contiguity to substantial motion and attain
the people near God, seeing the Almighty God; a stage
God Almighty’s beauty, Reasons, before the natural world
and Holy Lights. (Sadr ul-Din (before belonging to the body),
Shirazi, 1981, Vol. 2: 2) a stage of nature (belonging to
the body), and a stage after the
3. Comparative Study about natural world (separation from
the End of Spiritual
Perfection the body). In the first stage and
Sadra and Chopra have similarities before it belongs to the body,
in the purpose of spiritual the soul is in the position of its
perfection; Mulla Sadra thinks existential cause, which is a
that the ultimate goal of human separable reason species. In
creation is reaching the certainty the second stage, the soul
and God’s intuition, and he enters the world of nature and
begins its work through physical
