Wujud-e Munbasit in viewpoints of Sayyid Haydar Amuli and Mulla Sadra

Document Type : Research Paper

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1 PhD. student of Study of Religion, University of Religions and Denominations, Faculty member of Islamic Research Institute for culture and thought, Tehran, Iran

2 PhD. student of Study of Religion, University of Religions and Denominations, Researcher at Al-Mustafa International Research Institute

3 PhD. student of Islamic Mysticism, Research Institute of Imam Khomeini and Islamic Revolution

Abstract

One of the consequences of accepting personal unity of existence as well as the philosophical rule of “al-wahid” is Wujud-e Munbasit (the extended existence). Sayyid Haydar Amuli explains origination of multiplicity from the One on the basis of Wujud-e Munbasit. According to him the first emanation from Being is universal and extendedand contains all degrees of contingent world. By depicting of three degrees of existence, Mulla Sadra says that the first emanation is the extended existence and, in its light, he explains the real multiplicity of contingent things and the way in which they may be externally realized. Based on the principality of existence and its gradation and employing the idea of Illuminationistic relation, he considers the essence of effect as a manifestation of the cause. On the basis of the idea of the extended existence, he explains relation between multiplicity and the One as well.
The main difference between the two lies in the fact that Mulla Sadra, by employing of philosophical foundations such as principality of existence and its gradation, has considered some sort of hierarchical penetration for the extended existence; this cannot be, however, seen in Sayyid Haydar Amuli’s ideas, since he does not found his points on gradation of existence.

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Religions and Mysticism
Volume 46, Issue 1 - Serial Number 1
Spring & Summer
May 2013
Pages 63-84

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