Evaluating the Interpretation of Divine Decree and Providence in Mulla Sadra’s Philosophical System

The orders of divine knowledge in Mulla Sadra‘s thought are as follows: Grace, Pen, Decree, Guarded Tablet, and Providence. Mulla Sadra deals with an interpretation of divine decree and providence comprehensively, and explains the actual decree and providence maintained by the theologians, while explaining the essential decree and providence maintained by Peripatetic philosophers. In the present article, we have used a descriptive-analytical method as well as Mulla Sadra‘s various works to gather, classify, adjust and codify different interpretations of divine decree and providence in the philosophical system of transcendental theosophy, and enumerate its strong points as well as its deficiencies