Sadra's Philosophy of the Afterlife

Sadra's philosophy operates in tandem with his exposition of the Quran and prophetic sayings or hadith. For Sadra there can be no doubting that we do live on after death, writes Rizvi. He employs an idea that is familiar to us from the illuminationists: humans possess a powerful imaginative capacity tied to a kind of third realm between the sensible and intellectual planes of existence.