ماهيت مكاشفه عرفاني از ديدگاه صدر المتالهين

The essence of mystical exploration in Mulla Sadra s

The essence of mystical exploration has been one of the important issues being discussed by Muslims mystics and philosophers from two centuries ago. Having his own opinion about understanding the soul and the world, based on a priori approach, and relying on some principles like "the transformative becoming of the soul" and its combination with his own findings, Mulla Sadra considers the mystical experience causing knowledge which is resulted only by purification. This is the common points between Sadra and some of contemporary ontologists following a posteriori approach. Mulla Sadraʹs most - or all - explorations are counted to be spiritual which include the knowledge of the reality of the world. The principles of his transcendental philosophy such as essentiality and unity of existence, as he believes, are the result of such explorations. However, he can also be named as the ontologists following a posteriori approach. Since there can be found some common aspects in his mystical experiences and explorations in his works, he may be regarded as an essentialism.