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Characteristics of Near-Death Experiences… R. Salariyan et al (147

                2.  The Soul is the Place of          and  awareness  in  man  is  his
                   Knowledge and Perception           soul and spirit; Because human
                Perception and awareness of           material body they can not be

                the effects of the human soul         the home of immaterial human
                and does not stop with death.         perceptions.
                After  death,  the  material             In  addition  to  rational
                body loses its function and it        arguments,  Mulla  Sadra  also
                is  the  human  soul  and  spirit     refers  to  narrated  evidences
                that  remains  and  continues         in this regard. He writes about

                its  new  life.  Therefore,  the      this  in  the  book  “Shawahid
                perceptions  of  the  soul  will      ul-Rububiyah”:
                not  stop  and  will  continue               Conclusive      rational
                after death.                                 evidences  and  proofs
                  Mulla  Sadra  considers  the               indicate that the place
               soul  as  an  abstract  and                   of  wisdom  and  the
               immaterial thing, (Sadr ul-Din                place  of  knowledge

               Shirazi,  1989,  Vol.  8:  260)               will never be destroyed.
               and  believes  in  the  survival              A  prophetic  hadith
               of the human soul and spirit.                 “You were created for
               He has proved the immaterial                  survival  and  not  for
               of  knowledge  by  using                      perishment”  and  a
               various  arguments  such  as                  noble hadith   “The earth

               “non-extension  of  science”                  does  not  eat  the  place
               and  “The  Impression  of  the                of  faith”  and  an
               Big  Things  in  Small  Places”               honorable verse: “They
               and believes that the place of                are  alive  with  their
               knowledge  and  perception                    Lord,  provided  with
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