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and is divine, Mulla Sadra which the body is connected
extends this to all the faculties. to an immortal soul.
Matter alone and its Allamah Misbah suggests
principles are not sufficient that this would be the moment
for the appearance of any of at which an immaterial soul
the perfections of the soul, becomes attached to its body.
whether nutritive, animal, or To the contrary, Mulla
rational, although the vegetable Sadra might respond that
soul will appear when the what happens at this moment
corporeal arrangement is suitable. is not the attachment of
Some of these perfections will something else, but the
die with the death of the development of powers, by
body, such as the power of divine grace, in what was
nutrition and locomotion; already present.
while others, the imaginative In response, one could say
and rational, will continue that in this development from
after death. a corporeal substance to an
The point in time at which immortal and incorporeal one,
the imaginative faculty will there is a change from one
be activated will be some sort of substance to another.
time between the activation of The point of change is to be
the nutrient faculty and the explained by the attachment
rational faculty. of a new substance to the
In keeping with the body, a soul.
assumption of the first horn of The response of Mulla
Allamah Misbah’s dilemma, Sadra is to be found in his
we are supposing that there is answer to the question of how
some particular moment at many souls a person has at
