Love and its relation with Being in Mullā Sadrā's thoght

Love in all creatures, to philosophers, is an instinctive disposition due to their existence while for mystics it is a truth in them rooted in their life and awareness. In Sadrian philosophy, with regard to its principles such as Primacy, Unity, and simplicity of Being love is coextensive with the attributes of perfection. Mullā Sadrā maintains that Love, as a notion, is self-evident, and regards it as a universal truth which characterized by beauty, Goodness, knowledge, immateriality, power, and life. Accordingly, love penetrates into all creatures due to their enjoyment of the above-mentioned characteristics. To him, it is, like Being is, of true, effective, unitary and at the same time equivocal reality. Ultimately, he does not regard Being but as love and its manifestations. The divine Love to creatures and vice versa is real but has different meaning in each of them; that is to say the former is self-loving and true while the latter is mystically metaphorical.Keywords: Being, Love, Primacy of Being, graded Unity of Being, particular Unity of Being