Death from the Viewpoint of Mulla Sadra in the Philosophical Interpretation of the Concepts of Death and Soul

Death is one of the states of the human soul. Due to its alliance with the body, the human soul has various faculties and states. One of the most significant of these faculties is ‘death’. In Mulla Sadra's view, the soul brings its various potentials to realization through employing the body. And when the soul no longer needs the body after attaining perfection, it leaves the body, and enters the Hereafter as a result of this separation. Meanwhile, since the soul is inherently alive and the body comes to life through the soul’s prudential addition, the soul is the exact replica of consciousness and self-awareness. The soul continues to exist after death, and it is the body which embraces death and gets decomposed due to losing the mediation of the soul.