Examining the function of religious faith in self-love from Mullah Sadra's point of view

Faith and its related issues have always been one of the central topics of Islamic scholars. Muslim scholars, including Mulla Sadra, have independently dealt with the category of faith; which has divided the levels of faith into language, imitation, intellectual and discovery.   The aim of the present article is to examine Mulla Sadra's views regarding the relationship between faith and self-love. with the method of ijtihad and inference, he dealt with the issue of self-love, which is one of the most important issues and concerns of contemporary man. The findings and analysis of Mulla Sadra's works indicated that faith is the indicator and key to the mystery of self-love. Self-love is related to the degree of faith, and according to the degree of faith, people are kind or unkind to themselves.