Time
الزمان · zamān
In the selected discussion, a relation used to locate events; distinguish it from the moving thing and from a particular measure.
Read in context: Time, appointed time and beginninglessness · Arabic source
FUTMAK · Working glossary
Working glossary
Arabic terms, transliteration and contextual explanations linked to the readings.
These brief editorial explanations describe selected contexts, not every use of a term. Follow the linked essay and its Arabic evidence before quoting.
Results: 25
Appointed time
الوقت · waqt
A specified occasion or present condition. In the time essay, it links the general discussion of time to the timing of an act.
Read in context: Time, appointed time and beginninglessness · Arabic source
Beginninglessness
الأزل · azal
The denial of a beginning in speaking of God; not an indefinitely extended duration placed alongside created time.
Read in context: Time, appointed time and beginninglessness · Arabic source
Imagination
الخيال · khayāl
Read through the appearing form and the faculty receiving it. An image is not automatically a falsehood or an independent object.
Read in context: Imagination, images and perception · Arabic source
Form or image
الصورة · ṣūra
What appears or is received in a particular account. Distinguish the form from its locus and from a judgment about it.
Read in context: Imagination, images and perception · Arabic source
Intermediate relation
البرزخ · barzakh
Read by identifying two sides and what separates and connects them. Its eschatological context needs its own explanation.
Read in context: Barzakh: separation, connection and the life to come · Arabic source
Heart
القلب · qalb
A receptive and changing locus in the account of knowing; the term is not exhausted by an opposition between emotion and reason.
Read in context: Heart, intellect and unveiling · Arabic source
Intellect
العقل · ʿaql
A faculty whose operations and limits must be identified in context. Do not treat every occurrence as the opposite of spiritual knowledge.
Read in context: Heart, intellect and unveiling · Arabic source
Unveiling
الكشف · kashf
A mode of disclosure discussed in relation to knowing. Identify who receives it and the claim made; the label alone does not verify a statement.
Read in context: Heart, intellect and unveiling · Arabic source
Manifestation
التجلي · tajallī
Read with attention to what appears, the recipient and their relation. Differences in reception are part of the discussion.
Read in context: Manifestation and preparedness · Arabic source
Preparedness
الاستعداد · istiʿdād
The receptivity or disposition through which a form is received; specify whose preparedness and which manifestation the passage concerns.
Read in context: Manifestation and preparedness · Arabic source
Existence
الوجود · wujūd
Distinguish existing through oneself from existing through another, and appearance from what is fixed in knowledge, within the cited argument.
Read in context: Existence, fixity and preparedness · Arabic source
Fixity
الثبوت · thubūt
In the selected comparison, the status of what is known, distinguished from appearing in concrete existence; not simply another word for duration.
Read in context: Existence, fixity and preparedness · Arabic source
Breath
النَّفَس · nafas
Keep the vowels visible. Human breath supplies an example for the differentiation of letters and the discussion of the Breath of the All-Merciful.
Read in context: Breath, renewed creation and continuing dependence · Arabic source
Self or soul
النَّفْس · nafs
Distinguish nafs from nafas, breath. The shared unvocalized spelling does not make their meanings interchangeable; follow the local wording.
Read in context: Breath, renewed creation and continuing dependence · Arabic source
Presence
الحضرة · ḥaḍra
A relational context in the discussion of Divine Names; do not automatically translate it as a spatial room or physical location.
Name
الاسم · ism
Consider what is named, the relation expressed and the permission to apply the name. An explained meaning does not authorize every divine designation.
Letter
الحرف · ḥarf
Distinguish written shape, sound, name and constituent letters of the name. Some arguments require preserving the Arabic form.
Read in context: Letters and language: reading the levels of meaning · Arabic source
Love
المحبة · maḥabba
Read by identifying lover, beloved and attachment. In chapter 178 the discussion also concerns following, repentance and action.
Read in context: Love, constancy, intensity and inclination · Arabic source
Constancy in love
الود · wudd
The cited division associates wudd with constancy. Keep this local distinction instead of imposing it on every Arabic use.
Read in context: Love, constancy, intensity and inclination · Arabic source
Intense love
العشق · ʿishq
Associated with excess in the cited division. The discussion also limits its application as a name concerning God.
Read in context: Love, constancy, intensity and inclination · Arabic source
Initial inclination
الهوى · hawā
The first attachment of the will to the beloved in the cited division; not a definition of all uses of hawa.
Read in context: Love, constancy, intensity and inclination · Arabic source
Mercy
الرحمة · raḥma
Distinguish the universal and particular relations discussed from practical counsels to relieve suffering according to ability.
Read in context: Mercy: universality, particularity and care · Arabic source
Fitting conduct
الأدب · adab
Attending to person, act, time, place and condition so a judgment remains in its proper scope; more than outward politeness.
Read in context: Conduct, worship and rights · Arabic source
Right or due
الحق · ḥaqq
Here, what is owed and who may act concerning it. This ethical use must be distinguished from al-Haqq as a divine designation.
Read in context: Conduct, worship and rights · Arabic source