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            has been written so far, except           many  answers  have  been
            my thesis, which critically has           given to them, but most of the
            dealt     with     the     critical       answers were not correct and
            examination  of  six  bases               could  not  explain  the  real
            including       Anthropological           truth  of  Nafs;  Because  the
            humanism,  one-dimensional                truth  of  Nafs  is  a  complex
            human (mentalism), creativity,            matter  and  most  people  are
            evolutionism, immortality and             unaware  of  it,  only  a  few
            freedom       in    non-religious         people of mystic journey and
            spirituality  with  emphasis  on          austerity  have  been  able  to
            Chopra's  opinions  from  the             understand its truth. (Mulla Sadra,
            perspective of Transcendental             1975: 415)
            Wisdom. (Islaminasab et al, 2022)            From  the  beginning  of
               In  addition,  Hassanzadeh             philosophical  thinking  until
            (2015)  in  his  dissertation             the time of Mulla Sadra, there
            entitled      “Ontology        and        have been two major theories
            Semantics of Moral Concepts               about  the  immateriality  or
            in Emerging Movements” and                materiality  of  Nafs.  A  group
            the      article    “Humanistic           like  Aristotle  considers  that
            Spirituality       in     Deepak          the  body  is  a  natural  object
            Chopra's  Thought”  (2013)                for  Nafs  and  is  a  means  of
            has pointed to the foundations            actualizing its powers:
            of anthropology.                             Nafs  is  the  first  perfection
                                                         for an organic natural body
            Existential Domains of Man                   with       potential        life.

            1. Mulla Sadra's Viewpoint                   (Aristotle, 2004)
            For  a  long  time,  there  have             The  second  group  is  Plato
            been  many  questions  among              and     his    followers,     who
            philosophers        about       the       consider  the  Nafs  to  be  an
            essence of Nafs (the soul) and            abstract     reality     that    is
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