17 Facts About Hadi Sabzavari

Hadi Sabzavari or Hajj Molla Hadi Sabzavari was an Iranian Shia cleric, philosopher, mystic theologian and poet.

Molla Hadi is counted as one of the four prominent masters of the Tehran philosophical school, along with Aqa 'Ali Mudarris, Aqa Muhammad Riza Qumshihi, Mirza Abul Hasan Jelveh.

Hadi Sabzavari was born in Sabzevar, Iran to a family of land-owning merchants.

Hadi Sabzavari's father died when he was seven or eight years old and his uncle Molla Hosayn Sabzavari, became his caretaker.

Hadi Sabzavari remained in Isfahan for around eight or nine years, where he studied under these two undisputed masters of Mulla Sadra's school of philosophy.

Hadi Sabzavari concentrated on the main works of Mulla Sadra, such as the Asfar and Al-Shawahed al-Robubiya.

Hadi Sabzavari thought the intellectual sciences based on his work al-Manzuma, which he must have composed in Isfahan.

Hadi Sabzavari married the keeper's daughter that year who was later to accompany him to Sabzavar.

Hadi Sabzavari obliged and composed the two Persian books: the Asraral-hekam, which he dedicated to Naser al-Din Shah and another book titled Hedayat al-talebin.

Hadi Sabzavari died suddenly in 1872, probably as a result of heart failure.

However, this does not mean that Hakim Hadi Sabzavari was simply one of the prominent spokesmen of mulla sadra's Thoughts and lacked philosophical innovation.

The innovations of the Hadi Sabzavari can be examined in the following categories: ontology, theology, cosmology, anthropology, epistemology, and moral philosophy.

Hadi Sabzavari wrote some fifty-two works of prose and poetry in both Arabic and Persian.

Hadi Sabzavari wrote the Asrar al-hikmah, which, together with his Arabic treatise Sharh-i manzumah, remains a basic text for the study of hikmat doctrines in Iran.

Hadi Sabzavari played a part in making Mulla Sadra the 'master thinker' of the Iranian philosophers.

Hadi Sabzavari wrote works dealing with an array of subjects from prosody to logic to theology.

The gnosis of Hadi Sabzavari falls into three categories which are: knowledge of God, consisting of knowledge of the beginning and knowledge of the end; knowledge of one's self; knowledge of God's commands, consisting of knowledge of every rule of divine law and knowledge of the spiritual path.