Apprehension
idea · 2 works · 3 mentions · 7 anchored passages
الادراك · al-idrāk · al-infiʻāl · apprehension · being acted upon · idrāk · yudriku · ادراك · الانفعال · يدرك
in the texts
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Idrāk, the act of cognitive grasp, tracked through sense, inward sense and intellect and bounded at both extremes by what cannot be apprehended.
that is inward is able to apprehend (*idrāk*) the sensible after its absence, yet still with the matter that discloses it — such as the common sense and the imagination and the rest.
the outward sense does not apprehend the sensible except together with the matter that discloses it, such as the eye and the ear and the rest.
On setting forth the ranks of the soul (*nafs*), and on the apprehension (*idrāk*) of the sciences and the cognitions, other than what has been said above
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Idrāk, apprehension: neither the reception of an impressed form nor a passive being-acted-upon, but the soul's own disclosure of itself through forms in the measure of its preparedness, so that the knower never reaches anything outside himself and 'I perceived Zayd' is only a figure of speech.
(and secondly) the mere presence of one thing to another does not suffice for its being knowing, so something of the known must supervene upon the knower for him to apprehend it, and that supervening thing is the form — and then that form would be impressed in His essence, which entails that His essence has length and breadth, so as to be a locus for the forms of material things, which are such.
So apprehension is nothing but the self-disclosure (*tajallī*) of your soul through the forms, according to its preparedness (*istiʻdād*);