A Critical Look at Mulla Sadra's Narrative Perspective on the subject of the recency and antiquity of the soul in the book Al-Nafs Asfar Arba'a

Abstract

Hadith and philosophy are two sciences among Islamic sciences that due to fundamental differences in the way of accepting their propositions, Muslim thinkers have paid less attention to these two. Philosophy, of both the peripatetic and the Enlightenment, has dealt with rational and intuitive principles among Muslims and has relied less on the movables left by the Holy Prophet (PBUH) and the infallibles. This article focuses on Mulla Sadra's narrative view on the subject of ''novelty and antiquity of the soul" in the book Al-Nafs Asfar Arba'a. Analyze the strengths and weaknesses of his narrative arguments in the novelty and antiquity of the soul to sit on scientific judgment in this regard. Due to the small number of sources that have used narrative propositions in philosophical studies, less research has been done in this field.

Keywords

• keywords: origin and antiquity of the soul
• the book al-nafs
• hadith studies
• mulla sadra
• narrative evidences
• validation of narrations