Refuting Pantheism or Monism

One does get confused regarding whether or not Mullah Sadra was a monist or a pantheist when we read statements such as 'the contingents are both the Real حق and not the Real غیر حق, albeit in differing respects, because they are the Real in the sense of their existential perfections and the good which they possess; but not the Real in the sense of the imperfections, privations or negations that plague these contingents in as much as they are contingent, since the Necessary Existent being Absolute-Perfection کمال مطلق in Itself is devoid of all such imperfections and negations while simultaneously being not just perfect but beyond perfection فوق کمال; in other words if we consider contingent existence and cancel all the imperfections and negations associated with these existences in as much as they are contingent, so we arrive at the Reality of Existence حقیقت الوجود, or the True Unity وحدت حقا, as is also stated by Shabistari in his 'the Mystic Rose Garden' گلشن راز, that 'unity lies in the abandonment of relatives' التوحید اسقاط اضافات; what is meant here is the fact that the various delimitations or imperfections necessitated by the descent نزول of Existence into various grades or levels, are all factors extraneous and alien to the reality of existence that cling to it in consequence of its descent; but it is exactly these extraneous factors or delimitations that are recognized as being alien to the reality of existence that distinguish the contingents from the Necessary, the effects from their Cause, and the manifestations مظاہر from that which is manifested; therefore for Mullah Sadra the contingents are the Real only when witnessed without the extraneous delimitations and also not the Real by reason of being clothed in the same delimitations; and even the notion of descent نزول does not indicate anything in the concrete or entified reality خارج, since taken literally it implies a prior absence of that which later descends; but the separate-intellects عقول مفارق which are essentially-contingent were never temporally non-existent  عدم زمانی or absent, to qualify for an entified or concrete descent; therefore descent like contingency امکان is a notion that is abstracted intellectually اعتبار عقلی to communicate a sense of the gradual de-intensification of Existence ضعف وجود as one moves down the arc of descent قوس نزولی . So I don't think he was a monist in the sense the Stoics of antiquity or the modern day Spinozists are, because for them God is literally identifiable with nature or the physical world, whereas Mullah Sadra as has been shown takes great pains to demonstrate and maintain a clear distinction between the contingents and the Real, the enduring in essence and the ephemeral in essence; so for Mullah Sadra the contingent beings are not God neither individually nor collectively as an aggregate; since to assert that God is an aggregate of the Reality of Existence and the contingent realm is tantamount to rendering Him a composite of the corporeal and the incorporeal, the necessary and the contingent, the sensible and the intelligible; and since every composite is dependent upon its constituent parts for bringing about the composition and thus necessary through another it cannot as a consequence of this be simultaneously necessary in itself, which is absurd since the First Existent and the First Cause must be Necessary in Itself from all aspects واجب من جمیع الجحات.

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