Mulla Sadra’s Interpretation of the Impacts of Metaphorical Love

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Department of Islamic Philosophy and Wisdom, Faculty of Theology and Islamic Studies, Payame Noor University, Tehran, Iran

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Mulla sadra bases this kind of love on the great originality of existence and its attachments. Mulla Sadra in the light of the theory of the originality of existence and any perfection including beauty and the application of absolute He divided the love that is the same extreme in the love of beauty into real and virtual an the virtual into animal and carnal and by prescribing the carnal virtual love as a stage of transition to real love carnal virtual love because his precious individual and social effects in order to create the transformation of individual morality and also to make the education system efficient of course until reaching true love and also concidering that entering the stage of true love is not possible for everyone at least not easily he considers it valuable in itself and therefor does not postpone it. existence and perfection to God and the current love of beauty in the universe and the division of beauty into appearance and Esoteric and enumerating its examples and the existence of a connection between external and esoteric beauties finds his belief in virtual love. From Mulla Sadra's perspective, virtual love does not only act as a bridge to reach true love, which separates Mulla Sadra's perspective from many thinkers before him, especially the mystics.

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SADRĀ’I WISDOM

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Available Online from 15 September 2026

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  • Receive Date: 06 January 2026
  • Revise Date: 15 September 2026
  • Accept Date: 15 September 2026

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