 Philosophical reasoning and the ability to rely upon one’s intellectual faculties is what privileges the human over other animals and hence it is critical for the human to pursue the path of philosophy to realise their humanity. In this sense we can see the complementarity in Mulla Sadra’s thought between the practice of philosophy as an understanding and grasping of extra-mental reality and as an exegetical practice of making sense of revelation, predicated upon the notion that there is a homology between scripture as a book and the cosmos as another book that ought to be read by the seeker and whose inquiry requires a common hermeneutics for a sage to articulate.