The Comparative Study of Ibn Arabi's View and that of Mulla Sadra on Origination and Eternity of the Soul

Mulla Sadra maintains that the soul has – rationally – existed by its intellectual existence in its previous stratums. At the same time, since the soul is the manager of the body and essentially belongs to the body in its mode of existence, it has physical origination. He has successfully reconciled these two apparently floundering views. Although this philosophical view of Mulla Sadra is quite innovative, its traces are clearly found in the works of mystics such as Ibn Arabi. In other words, Ibn Arabi emphasizes the existence of the soul in previous stratums on the one hand, and stresses the physical origination of the soul in its worldly mode, on the other.