Analytical examination of the Sadr Al-Motaahelin's interpretive method

Molla Sadra's philosophical interpretation needs to be evaluated in the Isfahan's school. His criticism genre in his works ranging from interpretative method up to his rime indicates that he considers them as indecent on the basis of the philosophical approach. We already understand that the research efforts with regards to the Isfahan's school have been centered over intellectual accomplishments and Hadith based, interpretative and discourse approaches have been neglected. There are few researches which search elaboration of Hadiths like Al-Rawasheh Al-Amavye or elaboration of Molla Sadra Usool Kafi and thus examine their roles on intellectual approaches of that school . Molla Sadra's interpretive method starts with criticizing the triad Manahej and under t5he light of a linguistic approach deals with thinking about the Speech's Nature Chapter, Language of Revelation, Inward and Outward, the way one can attain the latent meaning, nature of Divine discourse, meanings of verses, validity of appearance and necessity of understanding the inwards, emphasis on philosophical approach in interpretation, benchmark for the truthfulness of interpretation based on four fold intellectual criteria and intuitional approaches and finally with emphasis on the esoteric understanding methodologies . In this paper, we make efforts to elaborate the fundamental characteristics of the Molla Sadra's interpretative method via explaining fundamental features of the Isfahan's school and to express his criticisms of interpretive methods and to explain a social methodology of his. The fact is that the Sadr Al-Motaahelin's interpretative method must be named as a philosophical-intellectual method which is based on his spiritual foundation. His Koranic interoperations and thinking which is though Discursive, it is in a strong bond with intellectual intuition and divine inspirations as well as fundamental, approach of an esoteric understanding.