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2. Ways of Spiritual Perfection attain annihilation in God.
according to Mulla Sadra (Sadr ul-Din Shirazi, 1981, Vol. 2: 2)
The Almighty God in the Holy
Quran has introduced the human • The Perfection of Theoretical
Reason
as an unstable and fluid being Sadra divides human reason
who is moving towards ultimate into two types, theoretical and
perfection. practical, and in each case, he
“O human, you are presents tools for spiritual
working hard towards perfection. In the case of
your Lord, and you will theoretical reason, he expresses
meet Him.” (Quran, 84: 6)
the union of the wise and the
Mulla Sadra also believes in reasonable for the knowledge
human fluidity and thinks that perfection of the human soul.
perfection is directly related to In this way, the reasonable
existence in a way that each forms in the human soul cause
existence has fewer existentially the soul to grow and improve
limits and defects is more from the stage of potential
perfect and happy. (Sadr ul-Din intellect to the level of actual
Shirazi, 1981, Vol. 9: 121) intellect. (Ibid: 319-321)
As a result, the human soul
• Knowledge and Righteous moves from the sensible world
Deed to the reasonable one due to a
Mulla Sadra considers the end substantial, intensive motion and
of perfection as annihilation in enters the world of reasonable
God and introduces the two with reasoning, and at the time
factors of knowledge and righteous of observation, the luminous
deed as the way to achieve and
essences of the reasonable world
