Nafsul Qudsiul Ilahi(4)

Divine spiritual Soul (part four)

This book explains the soul’s illumination upon the inside perception, defined common sense, fantasy, or Lawh Mahfuz (preserved tablet) and expresses different ideas of philosophers in this regard. Furthermore, it is explained that some philosophers consider the soul as life, movement, perception, quintessence (jawhar) or fire which moves constantly. Some philosophers do not believe in any of these ideas about the soul and rather believe in the quintessential part, which means when the body reaches the quintessence part, it acquires illumination of the soul. Through this idea, Mulla Sadra’ view about substantial motion is explained. In the final part of this book, the views of Aristotle, Pythagoreans Plato and Empedocles about the divine spiritual soul and the reason for descent of the soul are expressed. The most prominent part is the conclusion of Ostad Mousavi through pointing out to the narrations of Imam Ali (AS) about greatness of the divine spiritual soul and the essence of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH) and derivation of the divine spiritual soul from the light of Prophet Muhammad (PBUH).