Abstract

According to revelation and philosophy, the human soul develops in the world of afterlife until the Day of Resurrection. This paper intends to provide an answer to the following question: Given the immateriality of the intermediate world, how could the soul develop in this world, while development is a kind of motion and naturally demands potency and matter? Accordingly, the responses given in the Transcendent Philosophy have been examined and criticized, and it has been concluded that the only agreeable response is the one given by Imam Khomeini. Here, the authors have also referred to two new responses