Nabovvat in Molla-Sadra's Philosophy

Some events which occur for human are considered supernatural and mysterious. A great number of events such as true dream, mind reading, telepathy, extrasensory perception (the sixth sense), miracles, extra-ordinary happenings and revelations are all common in this characteristic. The important questions mentioned about these events are: can they be studies and researched scientifically and philosophically? Is their cause known? And finally, what have been the results of studying these events for philosophy and science? This article has tried to answer these three questions. The first philosopher who systematically and philosophically studied these events by his psychology was Ibn-Sina. Then Molla-Sadra added some valuable points to the knowledge of prophecies and had some more researches on the causes of these events. Both philosophers considered the function of human’s soul and its relation with the invisible world as the main root of these events. The difference between the two philosophers is that Molla-Sadra investigated them with a new categorization and discovered some of its new principles. A new science, called prophecies in this article, was resulted from their psychology. Yet among the contemporary cognitive sciences in the past half century, parapsychology has investigated and studied the quality and quantity of these events and has achieved good results. Parapsychology and prophecies have common subjects thus they can lead into another belief in metaphysics and open new horizons for sciences such as ethics, social sciences and religious knowledge.