In the dream...

In the dream,S adra sees the Prophet of Islam and then himself setting out on a journey after finishing his supererogatory prayers ( nawafil ). In climbing a steep and narrow mountain road,S adra goes through a number of easy and difficult stages, sometimes walking, sometimes on an ass. After a while, a noble and virtuous man appears and tellsS adra that his ass is not made for the hardships of this journey.

Upon hearing this,S adra leaves his mount and embarks upon the path by himself with full consciousness and energy. After narrating the dream,S adra gives a spiritual interpretation of it and its various stages. The second part of the three-page treatise, which is known under its Persian title Dibajah , praises Mi r Da ma d and his work. The two parts of the treatise are published in Is faha ni , Majmu’ah , (eighth and ninth treatises; pp.

265-7).[^47] 6- Hashiyah sharh hikmat al-ishraq (“Glosses upon the Commentary upon the ‘Wisdom of Illumination’ of Suhrawardi ”).

Although written in the form of a commentary upon Qut b al-Di n Shi ra zi ’s famous commentary on Suhrawardi ’s Hikmat al-ishraq , the most definitive text of the School of Illumination ( ishraq ), it is amongS adra ’s important philosophical works.S adra presents the relation and differences between the Peripatetic and Illuminationist schools with remarkable lucidity and depth.

The Hashiyah is also important to understandS adra ’s overall position towards the two schools from which he has incorporated many elements into his own thought. A partial translation ofS adra ’s commentary has been published along with Qut b al-Di n Shi ra zi ’s commentary by Henry Corbin in his translation of the Hikmat al-ishraq . See his Le Livre de la Sagesse Orientale ( Kitab Hikmat al-ishraq ) (Lagrasse: Editions Verdier, 1986), pp. 441-669.

Nine manuscripts of the text have been listed.[^48] 7- Al-Hashr (Risalah) (“The Treatise of Resurrection”). It is known under several different names: Hashr al-asya’ wa ma’ad kull shay’ , Tarh al-kawnayn fi hashr al-‘alamayn , and Hashr al-‘awam fi ma’ad al-ashya’ wa hashriha .