Abstract

In this paper, the writers have compared Mulla Sadra's philosophical ideas concerning the intellects and the angelology of Nahjulbalaghah. In doing so, they have studied all of Mulla Sadra's philosophical and interpretive books and collected his ideas on the intellects. Moreover, they have also had a thorough study of the content of Nahjulbalaghah in relation to angels. Then, only by the study of the two attributes of the "abstraction" and "plurality" of angels and the intellects, they have concluded that favorite angels correspond to the intellects only if they are at the level of perfect abstraction. However, in the case of ontological decline and assimilation of those angels in form and configuration to their lower world, they will not correspond to the intellects. In terms of plurality, angels are also as numerous as the intellects and enjoy specific and gradational multiplicity. Nevertheless, nothing has been mentioned concerning the origin of angel's plurality in Nahjulbalaghah.