Psychology, Eschatology, And Imagination in Mulla Sadra Shirazi's Commentary on the Hadith of Awakening.

This article examines the most salient aspects of the commentary upon the well-known 'hadith of awakening' by the famous Safavid philosopher, Mulla Sadra Shirazi. In the context of his commentary upon this tradition, Sadra discusses the nature of imaginal forms and provides a general explanation of how death is a type of awakening. He then goes on to tackle a problem in the history of Islamic philosophy concerning the modality of rewards and punishments in the Afterlife. Here, Sadra challenges some of the eschatological views of Shihab al-Din Suhrawardi, while drawing upon both Ibn ''Arabi's teachings on imagination and his own philosophical genius to systematically demonstrate how, in the final analysis, our bodily deaths mark an awakening to the reality of our selves on the plane of imagination. Keywords: Mulla Sadra; Islamic philosophy; Islamic perspectives on death, sleep, and dreaming; imaginal forms; destiny of souls; perception; awakening.