horan akbarzadeh; fateme asadi
Volume 19, Issue 3 , January 0, , Pages 111-134
Abstract
The issue of how human body is rebuilt in the hereafter has always been a challenging and important topic among the followers of the heavenly religions, theologians and faithful philosophers. The present study is aimed to provide a philosophical and theological explanation of the hadith known as the ...
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The issue of how human body is rebuilt in the hereafter has always been a challenging and important topic among the followers of the heavenly religions, theologians and faithful philosophers. The present study is aimed to provide a philosophical and theological explanation of the hadith known as the tail bone which means the decomposition of human body after death except the tail bone (the last vertebra of the spine). It is from this body part that the human body comes into being. In order to deal with one piece of the puzzle of physical resurrection, which is body reconstruction in the hereafter, we have adopted the method of library research to study the theologians’ opinions such as Khaje Nasir al-Din Tusi, al-Ghazali and others. The results of the study indicate the acceptance of the literal meaning of the narrative or the resurrection of the elemental body by the Muslim theologians, the rejection of the literal meaning of the narrative by philosophers such as Ibn Sina, and the interpretation of the narrative and the focus on its true meaning by Mulla Sadra. All of these opinions have a strong connection to the framework of mind of the philosophers who proposed them.
