13 Mulla Sadra wrote this book on monotheism based on his own intuitions. Needless to say, the written is a form of acquired of knowledge but this treatise embodies the acquired knowledge founded on presential data; in other words, acquired premises are not Sadra’s basis here rather the intuitive perceptions make his premises. The asleep is a term to criticize those who avoid enlightenment and in this respect it has a negative bearing. However, it also has a positive side when it is applied to the asleep versus the dead and in Quranic parlance, only the be¬lievers are alive and infidels are dead. Then injunction concerns only the believers who are alive. Now the believers the alive are either awakened or asleep. This shows that the asleep can be subjected to injunctions as they are alive while the infidels can¬not be addressed at all as they are dead. With this Quranic and mystical vision in sight Mulla Sadra has authored this treatise to awaken the asleep.

Abdollah Javadi-Amoli is an Iranian Twelver Shi'a Marja. He is a conservative Iranian politician and one of the prominent Islamic scholars of the Hawza in Qom. The official website for his scientific foundation, Isra, describes him as a well-known, outstanding thinker in various fields of Islamic sciences and a distinguished figure in exegesis, jurisprudence, philosophy and mysticism. It is further states that his ideas and views have been reinforcing the Islamic Republic of Iran since the 1979 Islamic Revolution, and that "his strategic and enlightening guidance" has been "extremely constructive" during the past three decades.