Types of Example and Imagination in Mulla Sadra's point of view

The talk of world of example and imagination plays an essential role in self-knowledge, understanding the Resurrection day and the issues of assembling day which each results in theoretical and practical fruit. The world of example and imagination was always the spot for conflict of philosophers’ ideas which some of them were remained just as common term. It means that although they have been applied the common term of the world of example and imagination but each used the term “meaning” differently and had different definitions. Being also on the arc of ascent or descent, in other words, being attached or detached of this world had been different forms in the point of views of philosophers. Avicenna had not admitted these two types and basically, had not accepted the abstraction of example and imagination. The definition which Sohravardi has mentioned about world of example and imagination coincide the definition of detached example and imagination; and the definition which Mulla Sadra has stated coincides the definition of attached example and imagination, but Sohravardi has not accepted the definition which Sadr al-Motaahellin has stated. The question is that, whether or not the Mulla Sadra believes in detached example as Sohravardi states. In this essay, the researcher endeavors to find an answer to the question.