An Analysis of Superficial Opposition of Principle of Analogical Gradation and Theory of Difference of World and Hereafter in the Philosophy of Mulla Sadra

Since Mulla Sadra offers some reasons of the existential difference of this world and Hereafter and believes in the impossibility of the existence of these two worlds in the same platform, how could we justify its opposition to the principle of analogical gradation and with considering the Hereafter to be the extension of this world? The objective of the current study is solving the abovementioned problem based on a descriptive-analytic method and through explication of the final ideas of Mulla Sadra in this regard. The results of this research show that if we accept the typical unity or personal unity of existence under the shadow of ultra-special analogical gradation, there will be no opposition, since the difference of this world and the Hereafter from the viewpoint of Mulla Sadra is a type of difference in existential degrees. This world and the Hereafter are manifestations, status and emergences that are not different with each other, and they all return to a unique essence; this is to say that existence is diverse while it is unique and this diversity does not impede the unity.