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Implications of the Divine Ethics … S. Ibrahim & M.M. Gorjian Arabi (97

effect is the same as the itself is deficient in identity,
copulative existence, while the Essence is linked to its

others believe that the cause as the universe is
existence of an effect is attached to it.
nothing but the substantial So, every existence except
relation and the sheer the One, the True, the most

relationship. high, is a flash of His
In other words, the Essence, and one of His
existence of an effect is like faces; And that all beings

the copulative existence. This have one origin, which is
interpretation is based on the Realizer of facts, the
specified special gradation Willer of things, and the

and the return of pluralistic Annihilator of beings. He is
world to affairs and the truth, and the rest is
manifestations. His affairs. He is the light,

On this basis, the identity and the rest is His
of an effect is nothing but a radiance. He is the origin,
sheer relation; therefore, after and other than Him are His
stating the issue of making appearances and manifestations.

(ja’l) and the made (maj’ūl) (Sadr ad-Din Shirazi, 1999)
Mulla Sadra immediately
went on to express the According to this

existence of an effect based expression, the existence of
on this point of view and an effect has no substantiality,
says: both from the analytical and

So it appeared that the existential point of view,
existence of the effect in except for the sheer relation