Mulla Sadra’s Philosophical Constituents in His Proof for Bodily Resurrection

Along with the origin of creation and prophethood, resurrection is one of the serious worries in the Islamic doctrines and what matters the most is how people shall be resurrected on the Day of Judgment. From among lots of issues about howresurrection, there is the question whether resurrection is merely spiritual or both physical and spiritual. Muslim philosophers have rationally dealt with the issue masterfully; you can find different theories from those who have refuted bodily resurrection to those who demonstrated it rationally. In his descriptive-analytic research, the author aims to explain the issue through Mulla Sadra’s demonstration of resurrection as the pioneer and founder of transcendent theosophy. Having used anthropological and ontological principles some of which he founded and some he approved, Mulla Sadra went to analyze and demonstrate the issue rationally. The key principles he made use of are: the primacy of existence, the individuation of existence, the graded spectrum of existence, the trans-substantial motion, the role of form and last differentia in the true reality of a compound entity, personal unity of existence, the role of mind in the body, the incorporeity of the imagination faculty, the role of mind in the forms of perception, the realization of the forms of imagination without the contribution of matter and that man encompasses the three worlds.