The five short questions asked by Ghi la ni are as follows...

The five short questions asked by Ghi la ni are as follows: 1) change in the category of quantity ( kamm ), to whichS adra replies by discussing the meaning of change in the categories; 2) the nature of the vegetative soul ( nafs nabati ), how it is, if any, transformed, and the detachment of the human soul ( tajarrud al-nafs ) from corporeal existence; 3) mental existence ( wujud dhihni ) and how the mind conceives such categories as quality, quantity, position, and place; 4) differences between human and animal perceptions, which have led both Ghi la ni andS adra to discussing the interesting question of whether the animals will also be resurrected like human beings; and 5) the creation of the spirit of each human being before the creation of their bodies on the basis of the hadith that “I was a prophet when Adam was between water and clay [i.e., before he was created]”.

Previously published on the margins onS adra ’s al-Mabda’ wa’l-ma’ad , it appears in Sih Risalah edited by S. J. Ashtiya ni . The critical edition of the text is published in Is faha ni , Majmu’ah (second treatise; pp. 107-122). Six manuscripts of the treatise have been listed.[^46] 4- Asalat ja’l al-wujud (Risalah) (“Treatise on the Primacy of the Instauration of Being”).

A treatise on an important part ofS adra ’s ontology, i.e., instauration ( ja’l ), which refers to the primacy of wujud in the existentiation of things.S adra has dealt with this problem extensively both in the Asfar and in the Masha’ir . In this relatively small work,S adra discusses major points of view on the subject and divides them into three categories. The first is the primacy of the instauration of quiddity defended by Suhrawardi and his school.

The second is the conjoining of being with quiddity, whichS adra attributes to the Peripatetic philosophers. And the third is the primacy of the instauration of wujud , which isS adra ’s own position. The critical edition appears in Is faha ni , Majmu’ah (fifth treatise; pp. 181-191). 5- Dibaja-yi ‘arsh al-taqdis , also called Risalat al-khalsah . A three-page introduction to Mi r Da ma d’s Asfar .

The Dibajah and al-Khalsah have sometimes been listed as two separate works but in reality they are the two parts of the same treatise. In the first part, which is called Risalat al-khalsah ,S adra narrates a dream that he had in the last night of the month of Ramada n, 1028 (A. H. Solar), with a following interpretation.