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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