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Mulla Ṣadrā's Moral Realism… H. Mohiti Ardakan (53
2. Al- Ḥayāt al-Ṭayyibah of worries that makes our life
(pure life) unpleasant. (Muhammad-Bello et
Another issue refers to al, 2021)
clarifying al-Ḥayāt al-Ṭayyibah
(pure life). The term Ṭayyibah 3. Mulla Ṣadrā
(pure) has several meanings Ṣadr al-Dīn, Moḥammad b.
like good, pleasant, agreeable, Ibrāhīm al-Shīrāzī, known as
nice, and lawful. (Ref: Ibn Ṣadr al-Muti'allihīn and Mullā
Manzur, 1993, Vol.9: 227&563) Ṣadrā is one of the most
It is meant in the Holy important philosophers after
Qur’an as good (The Qur’an, Avicenna. He is the thinker who
3: 38; 9: 72), pure, or lawful. revolutionized the doctrine of
(The Qur’an, 2: 168; 4: 43) existence in Islamic metaphysics
The phrase of pure life was and extended the shift from
once mentioned within the Holy Aristotelian substance metaphysics
Qur'an where Allah (AWT) said, to Neoplatonic process metaphysics
“Whoever acts of change. He mixed logical
righteously, [whether] reasoning, spiritual inspiration,
male or female, should and deep meditation upon key
he be faithful, We shall scriptural sources of the
revive him with a pure Twelver Shi'i tradition and
life and pay them their innovated a new methodology
reward by the best of in his system of thought.
what they used to do”. (Rizvi, 2007: 1-2)
(The Qur'an, 16: 97) Mulla Ṣadrā's positions
In short, a pure life can be related to ethics are found in
considered as a kind of individual some of his works like Al-
or social life that is characterized Hikmat al-Muta'aliya fi l-Asfar
by calmness, smoothness, purity, al-'Aqliyyat al-Arba'a, Kasr al-
peace of mind, free from any kind Asnam al-Jahiliyya, Risala-yi
of pollution, oppression, betrayal, Sih asl and Mazahir al-Ilahiyya.
enmity and hatred, captivity and The moral philosophy, as it
humiliation, as well as all kinds is popularized today, was not
popular during Mulla Ṣadrā's
