Philosophical Foundations and Principles of the Divine Speech and Book in Mulla Sadra's New Ontology

One of the theological issues is the Speech and Speaking of Allah. This issue has been discussed in Mulla Sadra's Transcendent Philosophy under the topic of the Speech and the Book. He studied this issue with his abstractive intellect from an ontological perspective with the help of the Quranic verses and traditions from the infallibles. Mulla Sadra has an epistemological view on the existence, and basically, he does not consider a separation between existence and Allah's guidance. The world with its levels is represented as meaningful words in his view, which is the Speech in one side, and the Book from the other side. That is not poetry, nor imagination, nor mere gnostic intuition. Here lies Mulla Sadra's skill who philosophically explains this era of existence from an ontological perspective, which some rules can be set for that. This paper seeks to extract and explain these rules.