A Comparative Study of Faith and Love from Mulla Sadra's Perspective

Faith and love are two unique attributes of mankind. The present article aimed to a deeper identification and review of the faith and love based on Mulla Sadra's viewpoint in order to identify the commonalities and differences between them.

The method of the present article is comparative descriptive-analytic.

The findings of this study indicate the existential similarities between faith and love including the common factors of emergence, the place of emergence, being blessing, innate, unquestionable, immortality, secret and intuitive. There are also some fundamental differences, such as those in the concept of objectivity with love, the contradiction of existence with faith, the aesthetic nature of faith and the aesthetic nature of love which indicate the non-objectivity of faith and love.

The authors of the survey conclude that these similarities and differences indicate that despite the common effects of faith and love on human growth and excellence, each has its own unique effects on the emergence of human perfection.