Abstract

Conducting a chronological research on the origin and development of the issue of the temporal creation of the world, the author discovers that Mulla Sadra rules out the idea of scholastic theologians who believe in a temporal contingency for the entire universe; neither does he endorse the essential contingency theory put forth by the philosophers of his own time.Mulla Sadra says that the temporal creation of the world becomes meaningful in the light of the trans- substantial motion on the basis of which no existent, even the primary matter, can remain stationary and subsistent.Therefore, the author concludes that by tracing the movement of beings within their substance, Mulla Sadra aims to justify movement within creation.Based on the article, what Makes Mulla Sadra's research on the temporal creation of the world from similar surveys is that he focuses on the "whatness" of the issue rather than on its "whyness"