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Allamah Misbah’s Puzzle … M. Legenhausen (43
This would make sense if immaterial intellect. The
we consider that according to individual human souls are
Sadra, reality can be divided drawn from Adam at some
into three levels: sensible, other level of existence to
imaginal, and intellectual. admit the lordship of God in a
The sensible and imaginal figurative sense.
realms each has its own forms The admission of God’s
of motion and, hence, its own lordship is implicit in the
time, since time is the immaterial form of the human
measure of motion. soul, which includes the souls
With regard to sensible of all humans.
existence, the body comes At the same time, I am not
about prior to the soul. With certain whether either or both
regard to its spiritual of these interpretations was
existence, however, the soul intended by Sadra, although
may be said to be with God, there are various indications
that is, not in the temporal for both in his writings. (Ref:
natural world, in a spiritual Mulla Sadra, 2008: 275-280,
time that places it prior to the 298, 523-525; Ibid, 2014: 64-67;
body and the things in the Obudiyyat, 2012: 309-318)
sensible world. Regardless of which
According to a second interpretation is correct,
interpretation, we could say Mulla Sadra clearly holds that
that the particular soul of there was substantial motion
Adam is to be distinguished at the corporeal level
from the general human soul, (ascending motion) prior to
which is the form of the the generation of the human
universal: the human, or an spirit, which first takes the
