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A Critical Approach to Human Position… H. A. Islaminasab & H. Moridian (69
and in a special case, and it highest Being of the arc of
cannot be applied to descent and the matter is the
everything including the lowest being, which is just
creation of mind and body, potency and because it has no
intelligence, etc. form, it cannot be defined,
just like the Almighty God,
1. Mulla Sadra's Way of Who is the Most Perfect
Looking at Human beings beings and is the Ultimate Act
• Being Dependent on and Perfection, and cannot be
God defined because of its
Mulla Sadra considers the limitlessness.
Universe to be composed of • Man's Ability Due to
two arcs of ascension and Connection with the
descent. after the vegetal and Almighty God
animal ranks, man enters the From the viewpoint of all
perceptible world of existence Divine religions and Islamic
and in his evolutionary path, philosophy, man is a creation
in the arc of ascent, he of the Almighty God, and
reaches the position of “So he without attribution to the
was the measure of two bows Almighty God, he not only
or closer still”. (Qur’an, 53: 9) has no ability; But also will
According to the have no existence at all.
Transcendental Wisdom, the The Almighty God has
Almighty God is considered created man in such a way
as the Origin and the End of that he has abilities only
the Universe, and in terms of through attribution to Him,
existence, “He is the First and and the more and stronger this
the Last…”. (Qur’an, 57: 3) attribution is, the more and
In other words, the stronger man's ability will be.
Supreme God Almighty is the The Almighty God has
