Rational explanation of the effectiveness of the love and guardianship of the saints of Muhammad in the afterlife

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1 PhD student in Transcendental Wisdom; Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

2 Professor, Department of Islamic Philosophy and Theology, University of Ferdowsi ,Mashhad, Iran

3 Associate Professor, Department of Philosophy and Islamic Theology, Ferdowsi University of Mashhad, Iran

10.22080/jepr.2025.28301.1244

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From the perspective of Islamic philosophy, understanding the worlds after nature and the rulings governing them lead to human perfection and true happiness. Therefore, Muslim theologians have paid special attention to explaining the life after death and the states of souls in those levels. Among the rulings governing the afterlife is salvation and salvation through the love and guardianship of the saints of Muhammad, which, in addition to its theoretical importance, is also important in practice because it is hopeful; according to numerous narrations, loving the Prophet and his family reduces or eliminates suffering and increases pleasure in the afterlife. The present study, written in a descriptive-analytical manner, has attempted to provide a philosophical-rational explanation and analysis of this narrative claim, the result of which is an argument in proving the increase of pleasures, relying on the creation of similarity between the lover and the beloved, and another argument in proving the reduction of pain, relying on the difference in intensity and weakness of the forms acquired by the soul and their dominance over each other in the emergence and manifestation of otherworldly states.

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