By Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Sadr al-Din Shirazi (Mulla Sadra, c. 980/1571-1050/1640). «al-Mabda‘ wa’l-ma‘ad», also called «al-Hikmat al-muta‘aliyyah», is considered to be a summary of the second half of Asfar. Mulla Sadra also called this book the Beginning and the End, since he believed at heart that philosophy means the knowledge of the Origin and the Return. Tahqiq of of Muhammad Dhubaiji and Ja'far Shah Nazari.