Mulla Sadra’s Perspective Sadr al-Din Shirazi (Mulla Sadra)...

Mulla Sadra’s Perspective Sadr al-Din Shirazi (Mulla Sadra) in his commentary on Usul al-Kafi regards Al-Ghazzali’s opinion about the limitation of obligatory knowledge for a Muslim to the matters of ritual practice and legitimate deal­ings as unacceptable. (8) In his opinion, learning of religious sciences (such as Tawhid, Divine qualities and acts) and human sciences (such as dis­positions of the soul, its delights and afflictions) are also obligatory for the majority of human beings.

Secondly, he believes that it is not at all essential that what is obligatory (wajib `ayni) for all to learn should apply identically in case of every individual and what is obligatory for one individual be regarded as being equally obligatory for another. Sciences whose…