Reconstruction of the Three-level Explanation of " Causality" in Transcendent Philosophy (Al-Hikmat al-Muta āliah)

Mullā Sadrā considers every important issue in philosophy from three aspects and in three levels. In this paper، we want to know if he has done so in the subject of causality. The outcome، according to Mullā Sadrā، in the first level is that we face with two being-in-itself، one of which (cause) creates the other (effect). In this level، he introduces “effect” as the connector existence (vujūd-i-rābitī). This identification implies that the cause and the effect are both being-in-itself. In the second level، Mullā Sadrā introduces them as connected existence (vujūd-i-rābit). This nomination means in this stage that he has negated the “effect” to be a being-in-itself and this would differ from what was accepted in the first step. Finally، in a different view in the third level، in the course of probing into their quality، he asserts that they are merely modes (Sha’n) of existence. So we could not name them “caused”، since when we know things as «causes» and «effects»، it is not taken any duality for granted.