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Introduction inception and spiritual in its
One of the distinctive features sempiternity. (Rizvi, 2009: 86)
of the philosophy of Mulla Mulla Sadra’s philosophy
Sadra (1571-2; 1635-6) is his is deeply indebted to Islamic
doctrine of the soul. He held mysticism or Sufism, and his
that the soul evolves or doctrine of the soul may be
emerges from the body. Not considered a philosophical
only humans and animals, but elaboration of the position
rather all corporeal existents, expressed in the famous lines
even rocks, exist in the of Jalal al-Din Rumi: (Ref:
material and non-material Lewis, 2000: 417)
realms. I died to mineral, joined the realm
The human soul has its
beginnings in material of plants
existence, but it evolves I died to vegetable, joined animal
beyond the material and I died in the animal realm, became
achieves eternal immateriality man
just as the fetus begins its
existence with the womb of So why fear? When has dying made
me less?
its mother but develops in (Rumi, 1990)
such a way as to achieve a
separate existence. The idea that the incorporeal
This idea is encapsulated in soul as a seperable substance,
the slogan that the soul is might have begun its existence
corporeal in origin but spiritual as a corporeal substance and
in survival (Jismaniyat al-Huduth then changed into an incorporeal
wa Ruhaniyat al-Baqa), or that substance has been criticized
the soul is corporeal in its by Allamah Misbah. (Ref:
