Physical-Spiritual Resurrection in the Scale of Reason; A Critique of Deniers of the plausibility of Physical-Spiritual Resurrection

Most Muslim thinkers believe in physical-spiritual resurrection. Believing in being resurrected with physical body – even through an imitation of religion – necessitates proving this doctrine’s being rational and not being contrary to reason as its precondition. Those who believe in resurrection in spiritual form or those who believe in resurrection with an ideal body regarded accepting physical resurrection as facing with some rational limitations such as reincarnation and uselessness of the elemental body in the hereafter. Such philosophical objections are mainly based on the psychology maintaining that the soul is spiritually originated and there is a categorical relationship between body and soul. They may have neglected their relationship as the status and the owner of the status. here, we have attempted to use a descriptive-analytical method to explain that through a certain analysis in the relationship of soul and body, neither the limitation of Avicenna’s reincarnation (existence of two souls in one body) nor the limitation of Mulla Sadra’s reincarnation (potentiality of an actual affair) is necessary. In this explanation, the truth of the human is neither the abstract spirit nor the material body; rather, it is a comprehensive being including all these orders and, thus, if the man is to return in the hereafter, he will return with his both elemental and spiritual dimensions.