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Mulla Ṣadrā's Moral Realism… H. Mohiti Ardakan (63
the human pure life and one's hopes, wishes, and desires
distinguishes the life of believers may not lead to happiness. In
in God and monotheists from this respect, Allah (SWT) said,
polytheists and deniers of God. “Yet it may be that you
It is clear that God plays a dislike something while it
central role in life, and the is good for you, and it
believer always strives to gain may be that you love
God's pleasure, owes all his something while it is bad
facilities to God, and submits for you and Allah knows
and obeys his orders. In contrast, and you do not know”.
life is based on unrealistic views (The Qur'an, 2: 216)
such as emotionalism, socialism, In some other verses, He
existentialist ethics, and other forbade following convention
views in which man is authority and the majority of people,
and not God. Man focuses on because most people act based
material and worldly affairs on suspicions, and following
and ignores the other world them is not necessarily related to
while according to the verses attaining reality and perfection.
of the Holy Qur'an, the world He said,
is the real and alive one, “If you obey most of
“The abode of the those on the earth, they
Hereafter is indeed Life”. will lead you astray from
(The Qur'an, 29: 64) the way of Allah. They
Since believing in unrealistic follow nothing but
approaches leads people to conjectures and they do
animalism instead of bringing nothing but surmise”.
them a good and pure life and (The Qur'an, 6:116)
real happiness. In some verses of According to Islamic moral
the Holy Qur'an, God warns thought and based on Mulla
believers from adopting such Ṣadrā's perspective, the best
approaches. For example, based life is achieved when a person
on the 216 verse of Surah chooses the right path wisely and
th
Baqarah, God Almighty denies preserves the dignity and position
the association between human of humanity, which is a divine
desire and achieving happiness and position, and avoids drowning
has pointed out that following
