The goal of the current research is to explore the real concept of love and its relationship with categories such as nature, creation, monotheism, unity, faith from the perspective of Sadr al-Muta'allehin and Imam Khomeini and has been done in a library method.
The research includes the following: biography of Sadr al-Muta'allehin Muhammad ibn Ibrahim Shirazi, biography of Imam Khomeini.
It also explores roots of the word love and different theories about it, interpretations of different theories about the concept of nature and background and historical course in this regard. And it also seeks the influence of Neoplatonic philosophy on Muslim philosophers in these matters.
Moreover, the research pursues the real place of love in mysticism, God acting in love, the theory of unity of existence and its relationship with the category of love and affection.
Other topics include such as virtual love and virtual lover, various combinations and divisions of love and affection, types of love. It analyzes the mystery of creation and its relation to love from Mulla Sadra's point of view, division of love based on the levels of beings in general, division of love based on the order of beings, Mulla Sadra's view on Bu'ali's view on monster love and enthusiasm, vegetable love animal, human, category of nature, characteristics of nature, nature in a general and specific sense, knowledge of natural affairs, what are instincts, unity of the Supreme Being, unity of intuition and its relation to the issue of love, category of unity, types of unity, numerical unity, a word from Nahj al-Balaghah.
Some other topics which have been studies are the negation of numerical unity, the category of creation in Mulla Sadra's philosophy, the category of nature, faith and the relationship between love and religion, the boundaries of faith and monotheism in the interpretation of the surahs of the holy scripture of Qur'an.
Some more discussions include such as the order and precedence of Islam over faith, the relationship between religion and love, human evolution and ultimate destination, the relationship between faith and ultimate perfection, the category of unity of existence and the issue of love and affection in Mulla Sadra school, theory of unity of existence and virtual loves, science and knowledge from mystic.
Finally, the research looks at Confrontation of reason and love, Imam's view on defining love and expressing the characteristics of love and affection, place of love and affection, differences between real and virtual love, factors of love, barriers to love, types of love, types of love in mystical society, levels of love in ontology Imam, love in the court of the Imam, the definition of Muhyiddin ibn Arabi (spiritual lover), the characteristics of the lover, the characteristics of the lover from the perspective of the Imam.