For example...

For example, in one of the quatrains he says, The Truth is the spirit of the universe and the universe of the body, And the orders of the angels are the senses of the body, The heavens, elements, and compounds are its organs, Lo! Unity is this, and the rest nothing but rhetoric. In dividing the writings of Mulla Sadra into the intellectual and the religious ones, we do not in any way wish to imply that these two categories are completely separated in his view.

On the contrary, one of the major achievements of Mulla Sadra consisted in uniting and harmonizing religion and the intellectual sciences. All of his works, even in philosophy, are replete with the Qur’anic verses in support of his conclusions, and all of his religious works, even the Qur’anic commentaries, are full gnostic and intellectual interpretations. One can only say that some of Akhund’s writings are concerned more with religious questions and…