Matter, Time and Space in the Worlds after Death

In Sadra Philosophy، body has the two aspects of actuality and potentiality and the outcome of potentiality is matter. Existence of potentiality paves the way for motion and motion creates time. Therefore، motion and time are interdependent in the material world. Sadra believes since matter is nonexistent in the Hereafter، time and motion are nonexistent as well. He further believes that although the Hereafter is both corporal and spiritual، the Otherworldly body is devoid of matter، time and motion. However، a lot of Quranic verses and narrations speak of the existence of motion and time in the Hereafter. There seems to be some kind of contradiction between Sadra''s understanding of the Hereafter and the exterior meaning of the Quranic verses and narrations. This contradiction is probed into in the present article.