Risalat fi al-Huduth (Huduth al-'Alam)

"Origination and pre-eternity" has always been a prominent issue in the realm of Islamic philosophy and philosophical and theological works. For example, we see that in his Tahafut al-falasifah, Abu Hamid Mohammed Ghazzali criticizes the belief in the pre-eternity of the world as one of the basic beliefs of philosophers at the top of all the twenty-fold issues. Moreover, Ibn Rushd devotes a very long part of his Tahafut al-tahafut to responding to Ghazzali's criticisms concerning the pre-eternity of the world in great detail. Later, other philosophers followed this trend and discussed this issue extensively. Finally, it was Mulla Sadra's turn to reveal the significance and high place of the "origination of the world" in the Transcendent Philosophy by writing an independent treatise on this subject and explaining it on the basis of his own specific principles.

This treatise consists of an introduction, 12 chapters, a conclusion, a supplement, and a sequel.

The titles of the included chapters and parts are as follows:

-On possibility and necessity

- On potency and act

- On motion and stability

- On the demonstration of nature for every moved and its being a flowing and changing truth

-  On emphasizing that the renewal of natural substances consolidates the status of heavenly and earthly bodies

- On nature's being the immediate agent of all corporeal motions

- On circular motion's being the first, the noblest, and the most enduring and complete of all motions

- On the demonstration of time

- On emphasizing that nothing is prior to the essence of time except God, praise be to Him

- On the conclusion of what we said before and the fruit of what we considered as the basis

- On the relationship between the originated and the pre-eternal

- On the quality of the existence of active intellects

- On the words of the great early sages and philosophers on the origination of the world

- On the ideas of other early philosophers concerning the origination of the world

- On what was revealed to us at this point of the discussion other than what we have learned from great philosophers

 Risalat fi al-huduth (Treatise on the Origination of the World) has been corrected and edited by Dr. Seyyed Hussein Musawian and published under the supervision of Professor Seyyed Mohammed Khamenei by the Sadra Islamic Philosophy Institute in 336 pages along with lists of verses, hadiths, poems, and important words.