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58 International Multi. J. of PURE LIFE. 9 (29): 39-71, Winter 2022
• Love Muhammad is the goal and
Sadra also mentions love as one cause of the whole universe.
of the factors of human spiritual Prophet Muhammad says:
perfection; because every worship “We who are the last
and voluntary movement that shall be the first on the
has a cause other than love and Day of Resurrection, except
affection for God is imperfect that every Ummah was
and will not have any result. given the Book before
(Sadr ul-Din Shirazi, 2002: 139) us and we were given it
Love and affection for God after them. It was this
Almighty is the result of day which Allah prescribed
knowledge of God. As a result, for us and guided us to
more knowledge cause increasing it and the people came
in love and affection, and after us with regard to
consequently, the journey to it, the Jews observing
God will be faster and more, the next day and the
and this causes more knowledge Christians the day following
from God to flow to the that”. (Qushayri Naysaburi,
wayfarer. (Ibid, 1979: 134) Vol. 7, Hadith. 28)
• The Perfect Human Mulla Sadra, after the blessed
Among the factors in the existence of the Holy Prophet,
spiritual perfection of the human introduces the Imams as the
is the existence of the perfect perfect human beings to guide
man. According to Sadra, the wayfarers to God. (Sadr ul-Din
perfect human being is the end Shirazi, 1987, Vol. 1: 575)
and purpose of creation, (Ibid, He then introduces the ʼulīyāʼ
1968: 27) and the truth of Allah and divine prophets as
