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Allamah Misbah’s Puzzle … M. Legenhausen (31
soul with various levels, then stage of the fully rational
the cognitive and reflective spirit. The soul stands as an
soul, and finally the rational intermediary stage between
soul, which is reached only the sensible and intellectual
for some human beings, and realms, a barzakh (isthmus)
usually when they are about between the body and the
forty years old. (Mulla Sadra, spirit, which was identified
2008: 126) with the intellect. (Massi
The soul is not an inner Dakake, 2004)
person who steers the ship of Thus the soul is the
the body, according to Mulla junction of the two seas (Ref:
Sadra. (Mulla Sadra, 1981: 139) Quran, 18: 60) of corporeal
The soul remains a corporeal and spiritual things; its being
power, an entelechy, as long the last of the corporeal
as it has not developed an realities is a sign of its being
intellect. With the emergence the first of the spiritual ones.
of the intellect, what has If you consider its substance
developed exceeds the bounds in this world, you will find it
of corporeality; and the soul the principle of all the bodily
becomes an immaterial substance, powers, employing all the
even while attached to the animal and vegetal forms in
body as its perfection, form, its service; But if you
and power. (Ref: Homazadeh, consider its substance in the
2020: 380) world of the Intellect, you
There are also provisions will find that at the beginning
made for the separability of of its fundamental nature it is
the souls after death for those pure potential without any
who do not make it to the form in that world; but it has
