Islamic Law and Society

The Place of Prophecy in Mullā Ṣadrā’s Philosophy of Perception

Submitted by Issaka Razak A… on Tue, 06/22/2021 - 20:21

For Mulla Sadra the station (maqam) and way - station (manzil) of every human being corresponds to the quality of his faculties of perception. In the fi nal mashhad of ash - Shawahid ar - rububiyya," On Prophethoods and Saint hoods", he outlines four way - stations of man which correspond to four levels of perception. In the first three levels, man perceives only through the faculties of sense, imagination (khayal) and estimation (wahm).