The Status of Fitrah Theory in Sadr al-Din Shirazi's Thought

There can be not found an interconnected and independent discussion of fitrah in Molla Sadra`s works, but he raised sporadically important issues in this regard. One may find several concepts in The word fitrah in Sadra`s works including: talent of perfection, talent of knowledge acquisition, human being in the divine existence and tropical spirit. Ikhwan al-safa for the first time raised the doctrine of natural theology in a philosophical source and Ibn Sina and Suhrawardi also have ideas referred to innate deism, and Molla Sadra has released a new version of innate knowledge of God theory. This version is one of the first attempts for philosophical justification of the doctrine of innate knowledge of God. Sadra has considered some trends such as perfectionism as innate in human being