Sheikh Ishraq's Viewpoint about Human's Evolutional Movement

Sheikh Ishraq has reckoned with human’s evolutional movement both in scientific and symbolic languages and he has narrated it as various stories or has symbolized it without stories. The analysis and decode of the symbols that Suhrawardi has used in his treatises for picturing the travel of soul toward happiness indicate the factors and causes of human evolution and happiness. The most fundamental stages in moving toward evolutional movement of soul include: 1. Subdue the carnal powers especially the ten inward and outward senses; 2. Connection to heavenly rational souls: 3. Connection to the active intellect and the other ten intellects.