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[From W.C. Chittick, "The Self-Disclosure of God: Principles of Ibn al-ʿArabīʾs Cosmology" (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1998).] |
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أهل الله |
ahl Allāh
Folk of God |
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آخرة |
ākhira
last world |
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أركان |
arkān
pillars |
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أثر |
athar
trace |
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دهر |
dahr
Aeon |
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دلالة |
dalāla
signification, proof |
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دليل |
dalīl
signifier, proof |
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ذاتي |
dhātī
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ذلة |
dhilla
abasement |
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فطرة |
fiṭra
innate disposition |
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غيب |
ghayb
absent |
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هلاك |
halāk
perishment |
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همة |
himma
Aspiration |
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حس |
ḥiss
sensation |
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حد ، حدود |
ḥadd, ḥudūd
limits |
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حدوث |
ḥudūth
new arrival |
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حديث |
ḥadīth
newly arrived |
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محدث |
muḥdath
newly arrived |
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اختصام |
ikhtiṣām
quarrel |
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اختصاص |
ikhtiṣāṣ
specification |
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إطلاق |
iṭlāq
unboundedness |
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مطلق |
muṭlaq
unbound, absolute, unqualified |
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اتساع |
ittisāʿ
all-embracingness |
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عزة |
ʿizza
exaltation |
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عزيز |
ʿazīz
exalted |
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جبروت |
jabarūt
domination |
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جبار |
jabbār
all-dominating |
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جمع |
jamʿ
bringing together |
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جوارح |
jawāriḥ
bodily parts |
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جبلة |
jibilla
natural disposition |
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كبرياء |
kibriyāʾ
greatness |
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متكبر |
mutakabbir
self-great |
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لذة |
ladhdha
pleasure |
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مادة |
mādda
matter |
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مكانة |
makāna
placement |
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ملكوت |
malakūt
sovereignty |
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مرض |
maraḍ
illness |
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موطن |
mawṭin
abode, homestead |
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مناسبة |
munāsaba
correspondence, correlation |
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نفس |
nafs
self, soul |
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ناطق |
nāṭiq
rationally speaking |
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نسبة |
nisba
relation |
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نظام |
niẓām
arrangement |
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قدر |
qadar
measuring out |
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قهر |
qahr
subjugation |
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قهار |
qahhār
all-subjugating |
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قيام |
qiyām
to abide |
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رضا |
riḍā
good-pleasure |
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سبب |
sabab
occasion |
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صنعة |
ṣanʿa
artisanry |
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صانع |
ṣāniʿ
artisan
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شهادة |
shahāda
witnessed |
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شهوة |
shahwa
appetite |
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سر |
sirr
secret heart |
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صدور |
ṣudūr
procession |
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تحقيق |
taḥqīq
realization |
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تقوى |
taqwā
godwariness |
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تقييد |
taqyīd
binding |
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مقيد |
muqayyad
bound, qualified |
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ترتيب |
tartīb
order |
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تصرف |
taṣarruf
free activity |
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توجه |
tawajjuh
face-turning |
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تعظيم |
taʿẓīm
to magnify |
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ثبوت |
thubūt
fixity |
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ثابت |
thābit
fixed |
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علماء الرسوم |
ʿulamāʾ ar-rusūm
the ulama of the tracings |
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عرف |
ʿurf
common language |
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وارد |
wārid
arriver |
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زمن (زمان) فرد |
zaman (zamān) fard
solitary time |
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Further terms: |
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أب ، آباء |
ab, ābāʾ
father |
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الآباء العلويّة |
al-ābāʾ al-ʿulwiyya
"the high fathers," the seven heavens |
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الأمهات السفليّة |
al-ummahāt as-sufliyya
"the low mothers," the four elements |
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أبد |
abad
eternity without end |
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عبادلة |
ʿabādila
"Godservants" [intensive pl. of عبد الله], those who have attained the state of human perfection, thereby realizing and manifesting the name God (Allāh) in the form in which they were created |
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عادة |
ʿāda
custom or habit |
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معتد |
muʿtad
customary, habitual |
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خرق العادة |
kharq al-ʿāda
"the breaking of habit," an extraordinary event, miracle |
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أدب |
adab
courtesy |
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سوء الأدب |
sūʾ al-adab
discourtesy |
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مأدبة |
maʾdaba
place of courtesy, banquet |
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رجال العدد |
rijāl al-ʿadad
the Men of Number |
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بسائط من العدد |
basāʾiṭ min al-ʿadad
the simple (non-compound) numbers, 1 to 12 |
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عدم |
ʿadam
nonexistence, the opposite of وجود |
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معدوم |
maʿdūm
nonexistent |
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ضدّ ، أضداد |
ḍidd, aḍdād
opposite, [lex.] opposite meaning |
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عدل |
ʿadl
justice |
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أفعال |
afʿāl
acts |
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عفار |
ʿafār
a sort of tree whose wood ignites quickly when used as tinder |
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أفراد |
afrād
"Solitaries," in Ibn ʿArabi's use, a group of God's friends, typified by Khaḍir, who unlike all other beings stand outside the authority of the Pole of the age because they deal directly with God |
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عفو |
ʿafw
"pardon" - i.e. to efface, eliminate and overlook, and to increase, make many and bestow. |
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الأحد |
al-aḥad
God, the One - inasmuch as He is uniquely, exclusively, and incomparably One - expressive of God's unity in respect of تنزيه .
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أحديّة |
aḥadiyya
"unity" - expressive of God's unity inasmuch as He is uniquely, exclusively, and incomparably One; unity in terms of تنزيه . |
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أحديّة الأحد |
aḥadiyyat al-aḥad
"Unity of the One" - unity in terms of تنزيه ; referred to when God uses "I" in the Qur'an. |
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أحديّة العين |
aḥadiyyat al-ʿayn
"Unity of the Entity" - [similar to أحديّة الأحد] - expressive of God's unity in terms of تنزيه . |
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أحديّة الكثرة |
aḥadiyyat al-kathra
"Unity of Manyness" - expressive of God's unity in respect of His many names and descriptions, i.e. in terms of تشبيه . |
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أحديّة المجموع |
aḥadiyyat al-majmūʿ
"the unity of what has been brought together," "the unity of the totality" - a synonym used for the Unity of Manyness, expressive of the unity of the indefinitely differentiated attributes of وجود and thus also of the myriad creatures. |
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حكم ، أحكام |
ḥukm, aḥkām
legal "ruling"; natural "property" |
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أهل المجالس والحديث |
ahl al-majālis waʾl-ḥadīth
"the folk of the sitting-places and the speaking" - those among the Folk of God who sit with God and are addressed by Him |
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حال ، أحوال |
ḥāl, aḥwāl
mystical "states," the passing psychological and spiritual gifts that fall upon travelers during their journey to God; distinct from "stations" (مقامات). |
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أحياز |
aḥyāz
spatial confines |
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أجل مسمّى |
ajal musammā
"named term," designated lifespan |
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أخبار |
akhbār
"reports," knowledge concerning anything whatsoever |
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آخر |
ākhir
last, latter |
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آخرة |
ākhira
"last world," abbreviation of (الدار اللآخرة). |
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تأخّر |
taʾakhkhur
posteriority |
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مكارم الأخلاق |
makārim al-akhlāq
noble character traits |
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الأكل |
al-akl
eating |
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أكلة |
akila
a skin disease |
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أكوان |
akwān
engendered qualities |
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عَلَم |
ʿalam
signpost |
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عالَم |
ʿālam
the cosmos, the world |
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عالم المثال |
ʿālam al-mithāl
the imaginal world |
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عَلَامَة |
ʿalāma
mark |
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أولو الألباب |
ūlū al-albāb
'possessors of the kernels,' possessors of minds |
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عالِم |
ʿālim
knower |
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ما سوى الله |
mā siwā Allāh
everything other than God |
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ألوكة |
alūka
message |
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لون ، ألوان |
lawn, alwān
color |
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عامّ |
ʿāmm
general, common |
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أمر |
amr
affair or situation; command |
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الأمر على ما هو عليه [في نفسه]ـ |
al-amr ʿalā mā huwa ʿalayhi [fī nafsihi]
"the situation as it is [in itself]," the actual situation |
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الأمر كلّه |
al-amr kulluhu
"the whole affair," the whole cosmos in its actual situation |
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الخلق والأمر |
al-khalq waʾl-amr
"the creation and the command," the absent and the witnessed domains |
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في نفس الأمر |
fī nafs al-amr
"in the self of the situation," in actual fact |
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روح أمريّ |
rūḥ amrī
a "command spirit," as opp. to the divine spirit |
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أمثال |
amthāl
likenesses |
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الآن |
al-ān
"the instant," the present time |
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أنام |
anām
to put to sleep; mankind |
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أنبياء الأولياء |
anbiyāʾ al-awliyāʾ
"prophets among the friends" |
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أنفاس |
anfās
breaths |
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أنكر النكرات |
ankar an-nakirāt
"most indefinite of the indefinites," a definition of the most general category "thing" (شيء) which applies to anything |
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عقد |
ʿaqd
knotting |
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عقيدة |
ʿaqīda
creed |
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اعتقاد |
iʿtiqād
belief |
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عقل ، عقول |
ʿaql, ʿuqūl
intellect |
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عاقل |
ʿāqil
rational man |
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عقلاء المجانين |
ʿuqalāʾ al-majānīn
the rational madmen |
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أرض |
arḍ
earth |
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أرضة |
araḍa
woodworm |
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عرض |
ʿarḍ
breadth |
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عارف |
ʿārif
gnostic, the one who truly knows |
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وتد ، أوتاد |
watad, awtād
the "Pegs," one of the several groups of the Men of Number (رجال العدد) |
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أوّل |
awwal
first, former |
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آيات |
āyāt
signs |
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عين |
ʿayn
eye; entity |
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عين معدومة |
ʿayn maʿdūma
nonexistent entity |
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عين موجودة |
ʿayn mawjūda
existent entity |
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عين ثابتة |
ʿayn thābita
fixed entity |
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عين واحدة |
ʿayn wāḥida
"One Entity," existence (وجود) as such in contrast to the manyness of things |
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أينيّة |
ayniyya
location, whereness |
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أزل |
azal
eternity without beginning |
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بدن |
badan
body |
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بديع |
badīʿ
innovator |
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بادهة ، بواده |
bādiha, bawādih
befaller |
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بهيمة ، بهائم |
bahīma, bahāʾim
dumb beasts |
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الأمة البهيميّة |
al-ummat al-bahīmiyya
the community of dumb beasts |
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بقاء |
baqāʾ
subsistence |
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برق |
barq
lightening |
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برزخ |
barzakh
isthmus or in-between world, itself being neither the one nor the other |
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بشر |
bashar
mortal |
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بسط |
basṭ
expansion |
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بسيط ، بسائط |
basīṭ, basāʾiṭ
plain, simple, non-compound |
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باسط |
bāsiṭ
outspreader |
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بطن ، بطون |
baṭn, buṭūn
belly |
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بطون |
buṭūn
non-manifestation, inwardness |
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باطن |
bāṭin
non-manifest, inward |
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الاعتبار في الباطن |
al-iʿtibār fiʾl-bāṭin
the hidden significance, "crossing over to, or taking heed of" the non-manifest and hidden dimension of the issue |
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بيّنة |
bayyina
in-betweenness |
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برّ |
birr
loving kindness |
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دهر |
dahr
"aeon," an enormously long period of time, or the whole of time, the passing of time - used by the pagan Arabs to mean something like Fate |
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الدهريّون |
ad-dahriyyūn
aeonists, those who believed in no transcendent reality outside the cosmos, but simply the impersonal workings of a grand cosmic system |
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دائرة |
dāʾira
circle |
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استدارة |
istidāra
circularity |
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ضلال |
ḍalāl
error, straying |
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إضلال |
iḍlāl
misguidance |
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دار |
dār
abode, world |
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دعوى |
daʿwā
claim |
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دوام |
dawām
perpetuity |
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دوريّ |
dawrī
circular |
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القوّة الذاكرة |
al-quwwat adh-dhākira
the remembering faculty, power of memory |
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ذات |
dhāt
essence |
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ذوق |
dhawq
tasting |
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ذهن |
dhihn
mind |
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ذكر |
dhikr
remembrance, mention |
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دين |
dīn
"religion" - i.e. obedience or acquiescence [انقياد], requital or recompense [جزاء], and custom or habit [عادة] in Ibn Arabi's definition. |
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دنيا |
dunyā
"the closest world," abbreviation of (الدار الدنيا). |
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فضل |
faḍl
bounty |
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فاضل |
fāḍil
ranked in excellence above others |
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مفضول |
mafḍūl
ranked in excellence below others |
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تفضيل |
tafḍīl
"to rank in excellence"- i.e. to attribute an excess or an excellence to something, through which it is then distinguished from other things; to make one thing more excellent than another thing |
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مفاضلة |
mufāḍala
ranking [in excellence] |
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تفاضل |
tafāḍul
ranking [in excellence] |
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فهم |
fahm
understanding |
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فهوانيّة |
fahwāniyya
"elocution" - the address of the Real by way of direct encounter in the world of imagination |
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فناء |
fanāʾ
annihilation |
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فقير |
faqīr
needy, poor |
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فرق |
farq
separation |
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فرقان |
furqān
discrimination |
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فساد |
fasād
corruption |
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فصل |
faṣl
specific difference |
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فصل الخطاب |
faṣl al-khiṭāb
"the differentiation of address," decisive address, clear judgment, decisive speech [Qur'an 38:20] |
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فتح |
fatḥ
opening |
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مفتاح |
miftāḥ
key |
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فاطر |
fāṭir
separator - one who splits, cleaves, brings forth |
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فاطر السموات والأرض |
fāṭir as-samawāt waʾl-arḍ
Separator of the Heavens and the Earth |
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فيه ما فيه |
fīhi mā fīhi
in him is what is in Him |
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غضب |
ghaḍab
wrath |
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غفلة |
ghafla
heedlessness |
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غفر |
ghafr
forgiveness |
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غريب |
gharīb
strange |
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العقل الغريزيّ |
al-ʿaql al-gharīzī
the native intellect |
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غير |
ghayr
other [than] |
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غيرة |
ghayra
jealousy |
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غنا |
ghinā
independence, wealth |
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غني |
ghanī
independent, wealthy |
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غلوّ |
ghuluww
excessive, exceeding proper bounds |
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هاضم |
hāḍim
digestive |
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حضرة |
ḥaḍra
the Presence |
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حاجب |
ḥājib
veil-keeper, a term for high-ranking officials who controlled access to kings or caliphs |
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هل |
hal
the question "whether" |
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حماسة |
ḥamāsa
heroism |
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حمد |
ḥamd
praise |
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حميد |
ḥamīd
praiseworthy |
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حامل |
ḥāmil
carrier, bearer |
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حميّة |
ḥamiyya
fury, zeal |
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الحق |
al-ḥaqq
the Real |
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الحق المخلوق به |
al-ḥaqq al-makhlūq bihi
the Real through which creation occurs |
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ما سوى الحق |
mā siwā al-ḥaqq
everything other than the Real |
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حقيقة |
ḥaqīqa
reality |
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حقيقي |
ḥaqīqī
true |
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حركة |
ḥaraka
movement |
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تحريك |
taḥrīk
giving movement |
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حسد |
ḥasad
envy |
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حسنة |
ḥasana
beautiful act |
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هوى |
hawā
caprice |
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هواء |
hawāʾ
air |
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حياء |
ḥayāʾ
shame |
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حياة |
ḥayāt
life |
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هيكل |
haykal
frame |
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حيرة |
ḥayra
bewilderment |
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حفظ |
ḥifẓ
preservation |
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حجاب |
ḥijāb
veil |
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هجير |
hijjīr
constant invocation |
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حكمة |
ḥikma
wisdom |
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حلبة |
ḥilba
racetrack |
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حين |
ḥīn
while |
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حشمة |
ḥishma
respect |
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هجوم |
hujūm
intrusion |
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حكماء |
ḥukamāʾ
sages |
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حرمة |
ḥurma
reverence |
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حرّيّة |
ḥurriyya
freedom |
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حُسن |
ḥusn
beauty |
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أحسن |
aḥsan
most beautiful |
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عبادة |
ʿibāda
worship |
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عباد |
ʿibād
servants, slaves |
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إبهام |
ibhām
uncertainty, obscurity |
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إبل |
ibl
camel; clouds |
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الروح الإلهي |
ar-rūḥ al-ilāhī
the Divine Spirit |
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الروح الإضافيّ |
ar-rūḥ al-iḍāfī
"the ascribed spirit," i.e. the Divine Spirit, so called because God ascribes it to Himself in several places in the Qur'an |
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الروح المضاف |
ar-rūḥ al-muḍāf
"the ascribed spirit," i.e. the Divine Spirit, so called because God ascribes it to Himself in several places in the Qur'an |
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إدلال |
idlāl
presumptuousness [syn. "conceit" (زهو)] |
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إدراك |
idrāk
perception |
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اضطرار |
iḍṭirār
constraint |
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اضطراريّ |
iḍṭirārī
constrained |
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إفساد |
ifsād
working corruption |
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إفصاح |
ifṣāḥ
eloquent exposition |
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إحاطة |
iḥāṭa
(encompassing) circumference, compass - to surround, encompass, enclose, encircle |
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المحيط |
al-muḥīṭ
the All-Encompassing |
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إحسان |
iḥsān
doing the beautiful |
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اهتضام |
ihtiḍām
wrongdoing |
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احتضار |
iḥtiḍār
reaching the presence [of s.o. or s.th.] |
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إيجاد |
ījād
giving existence [to s.o. or s.th.] |
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إخبار |
ikhbār
giving report, report-giving |
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اختلاط |
ikhtilāṭ
mixing |
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اختيار |
ikhtiyār
choice |
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اختياريّ |
ikhtiyārī
free, chosen |
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اكتساء |
iktisāʾ
draping |
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اكتساب |
iktisāb
earning |
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إله |
ilāh
god |
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إلهي |
ilāhī
divine |
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إعلام |
iʿlām
giving knowledge, knowledge-giving |
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إلهام |
ilhām
inspiration |
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إل |
ill
anything which has a quality requiring it to be regarded as sacred, or inviolable; which has some right pertaining to it - specifically, used for nearness with respect to kindred, origin, compactor, covenant, Lordship, revelation, God |
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علّة |
ʿilla
cause; affliction, infirmity |
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معلول |
maʿlūl
caused thing, effect; afflicted, infirm |
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عِلم |
ʿilm
knowledge |
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إمام |
imām
leader, the one who stands in front |
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أمام |
amāma
in front of |
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إيمان |
īmān
faith
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إمكان |
imkān
possibility |
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امتنان |
imtinān
gratuitous favor |
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امتزاج |
imtizāj
commingling |
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عند |
ʿind
"at" - primarily used in relation to that which is present with a person or thing |
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عنديّة |
ʿindiyya
"at-ness" - the state of things present with God before they enter into existence |
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انفصال |
infiṣāl
separateness |
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انقياد |
inqiyād
obedience, acquiescence |
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إنصاف |
inṣāf
equitable balance |
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الإنسان الكبير |
al-insān al-kabīr
the great human being, the human being's analogue in the macrocosm |
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إنزال |
inzāl
sending down |
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إشارة |
ishāra
allusion |
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إصلاح |
iṣlāḥ
making wholesome - the opposite of (إفساد). |
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الاسم الجامع |
al-ism al-jāmiʿ
the all-comprehensive name - i.e. (الله) |
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عصمة |
ʿiṣma
sinlessness, inerrancy |
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استعداد |
istiʿdād
capacity, preparedness |
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استفادة |
istifāda
acquiring |
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استحالة |
istiḥāla
transmutation |
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استثناء منقطع |
istithnāʾ munqaṭiʿ
severed exception - syntactic use of the word "except" where what is excepted is wholly different in kind from the general term |
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استظهار القرآن |
istiẓhār al-qurʾān
to have the Qur'an rooted in the memory - Ibn Arabi understands this to mean the reception of the Qur'an directly from God by His sending it down (إنزال) into the heart |
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اثم |
ithm
sin |
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اعتبار |
iʿtibār
passing over, crossing over to, taking heed of, metaphorical interpretation |
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اتصاف |
ittiṣāf
qualifying |
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اتصال |
ittiṣāl
joinedness |
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جبر |
jabr
compulsion, domination |
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الجبار |
al-jabbār
the All-Dominating |
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مجبور |
majbūr
compulsory |
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جعل |
jaʿl
making - to make, render, appoint, assign, place, put, create; to "make" something the way it is |
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جلال |
jalāl
majesty |
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جليس |
jalīs
sitting companion |
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جامع |
jāmiʿ
all-comprehensive, he who brings together |
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الكون الجامع |
al-kawn al-jāmiʿ
the all-comprehensive engendered thing, a description of the perfect human being |
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مجموع |
majmūʿ
that which has been "brought together," totality |
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جمال |
jamāl
beauty |
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جنة |
janna
Garden |
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جسد |
jasad
body, corporeous body - "any spirit or meaning that becomes manifest in a luminous or fiery body," "every spirit or meaning that becomes manifest in the form of a luminous or elemental body such that it is witnessed by the other" [other = anything other than God] - e.g. a spirit manifesting itself in the form of an angel, Gabriel in the form of a bedouin |
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جسديّ |
jasadī
corporeous - roughly synonymous with 'imaginal,' opp. to corporeal (جسميّ or جسمانيّ) |
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جزاء |
jazāʾ
requital, recompense |
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جهاد |
jihād
struggle |
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جنس |
jins
kind, genus |
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جسم |
jism
body, corporeal body |
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جسميّ |
jismī
corporeal - opp. to corporeous (جسديّ) |
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جسمانيّ |
jismānī
corporeal - opp. to corporeous (جسديّ) |
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جزء |
juzʾ
fascicle, part |
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جزئيّ |
juzʾī
partial, particular |
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كافر |
kāfir
unbeliever, ingrate, one who covers up |
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كفور |
kafūr
concealer - intensive form of كافر . |
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هم الذين كفروا |
hum alladhīna kafarū
[Qur'anic phrase] those who cover and veil, people who by their 'absence,' conceal the Absolute behind the curtain of their own selves |
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كلام |
kalām
speech |
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الكلام على الخواطر |
al-kalām ʿalāʾl-khawāṭir
reading thoughts, lit. "speaking about passing thoughts" |
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كامل |
kāmil
perfect - opposite of ناقص . |
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كنف |
kanaf
wing |
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كرامات |
karāmāt
charismatic gifts |
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كشف |
kashf
unveiling - the unveiling of the Real by removing the ignorance and obscurities that separate the true subject from the true object |
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كثيف |
kathīf
dense - opp. to "subtle" (لطيف) |
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كتيبة |
katība
the ranking, ordering of troops |
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كون ، أكوان |
kawn, akwān
used for Greek "genesis," "generation," as in the phrase "generation and corruption," & related to God's command in the Qur'an "Be!" (كن) -- engendered existence, engendered thing
[syn. existent entity, existent thing] |
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كيف |
kayf
the question "how?", quality, howness |
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كينونة |
kaynūna
an all-inclusive being |
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الخبير |
al-khabīr
the Experienced -- experienced because He knows things through their actual manifest reality, and hence experiences them as they are, and experienced by creatures, because they become aware of وجود though presence within the All-Merciful Breath |
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الخافض |
al-khāfiḍ
He Who Puts Down, the Lowerer |
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خفيف |
khafīf
light - opp. to "heavy" (ثقيل) |
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خلاء |
khalāʾ
the Void -- an imagined expanse that is not within the body, an imagined sphere that is not within the body, an expanse without edges that is not within a body, but within which corporealization is imagined -
I.e. in order for us to conceive of bodily things, we must imagine an "empty space" that they occupy; but an absolute nothingness with no bodily dimensions whatsoever is not possible for us to find, so it is only a useful supposition. |
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خليفة |
khalīfa
vicegerent, trustee - he who comes after someone else and succeeds him or represents him in his function |
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خلافة |
khilāfa
vicegerency |
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خلق |
khalq
creation - i.e. to determine, take something's measure or give measure or shape to something (تقدير), and to give existence (إيجاد) |
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مخلوقات |
makhlūqāt
created things |
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خلوة |
khalwa
seclusion, spiritual retreat |
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خرق |
kharq
breaking |
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خاصّ |
khāṣṣ
specific - opp. to "general" (عامّ) |
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الوجه الخاصّ |
al-wajh al-khāṣṣ
the specific face -- the aspect of a thing that looks to وجود as opposed to the aspect that looks to occasions and causes; the specific face of God that turns toward a thing to give it existence. |
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خطاء |
khaṭāʾ
error |
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خاتم |
khātam
seal |
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خاتمة |
khātima
conclusion |
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خاطر ، خواطر |
khāṭir, khawāṭir
passing thought - (4 types:) divine, angelic, soul-derived, or satanic |
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خوف |
khawf
fear |
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ترك الخوف |
tark al-khawf
abandoning fear |
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خيال |
khayāl
imagination |
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الخيال المطلق |
al-khayāl al-muṭlaq
the Unbounded Imagination, the cosmos as manifested in the Breath of the All-Merciful |
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خياليّ |
khayālī
imaginal -- syn. مثاليّ . |
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مخيّل |
mukhayyal
imaginalized -- syn. ممثّل . |
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خير |
khayr
the good |
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الخير عادة |
al-khayr ʿāda
"Good is a habit," good keeps coming back
[ḥadīth] |
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خرقة |
khirqa
robe, cloak |
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خطاب |
khiṭāb
address |
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خضوع |
khuḍūʿ
to yield, to be humble, lowly, submissive |
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كفاحًا |
kifāḥan
directly |
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كتاب ، كتب |
kitāb, kutub
book |
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كتابة |
kitāba
writing |
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كفر |
kufr
to conceal or cover up; disbelief, unfaith, ingratitude |
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كلفة |
kulfa
a burden or discomfort |
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الكرسي |
al-kursī
the Footstool - often understood as God's knowledge; in a cosmological sense, the complement of the Throne (العرش) |
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لدنيّ |
ladunī
God-given [knowledge], i.e. "from Him" (مِنْ لَدُنْهُ) the main example of which is Khaḍir's knowledge [Qur'an 18:65]. |
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لجاج |
lajāj
obstinate persistence |
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لمّة |
lamma
suggestion |
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لعنة |
laʿna
cursing - etymologically, "distancing" |
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لسن |
lasan
grandiloquence - that through which divine clear-speaking falls into the ears of the gnostics; the Word of the Presence, which is the engendering command "Be!" |
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لطيف |
laṭīf
subtle |
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لطيفة |
laṭīfa
subtlety - used by the Sufis to refer to a concept that is difficult to express, and the human soul inasmuch as it is difficult to fathom |
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لوائح |
lawāʾiḥ
flashes |
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تلوين |
talwīn
variegation - constant transferral from one color to another color or one state to another state - opp. to "stability" تمكين . |
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التمكين في التلوين |
at-tamkīn fiʾt-talwīn
"stability in variegation" - the constant witnessing of the renewal of creation at each instant, the direct vision of the fact that "Each day He is upon some task" (Qur'an 55:29). |
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لما |
limā
the question "why?", cause, whyness |
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ما |
mā
the question "what?", quiddity, whatness |
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ما لا نهاية له |
mā lā nihāya lahu
infinity, that which has no end |
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ما لا يتناهى |
mā lā yatanāhā
infinity, that which does not end |
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معاد |
maʿād
place of being brought back, the resurrection, the Place of Return |
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معراج ، معارج |
mirʿāj, maʿārij
means of ascent, step, stairs |
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مبدأ |
mabdaʾ
the Place of Origin |
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مغرب |
maghrib
setting-place, west |
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محل |
maḥall
locus - synonymous with "heart," the place where God's self-disclosure is revealed |
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ماهيّة |
māhiyya
quiddity, whatness |
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محمول |
maḥmūl
carried, borne |
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مائل |
māʾil
inclining |
