Determination
“taʻayyun”
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
al-taʻayyunāt · determination · determinations · the modality of its determination · the notional determinations · their overflow · التعينات · التعينات الاعتبارية · تعين · فيضها
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Risālat al-Wāridāt (Arabic)
The nearest of them to Being is what is called the Intellect, since it stands before all the determinations (*taʻayyunāt*) and is the meeting-place of their overflow from the First Principle;
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
Taʻayyun, the specification by which the Real's undifferentiated existence becomes this or that thing, the master concept of the chapter.
(The fourth) that, since the Real Existence is one in identity, as we have said, while the existents differ, it is known that the multiplicities are only according to the determinations, which are His attribute and His name.
(The fifth) Just as the individuals of every quiddity are the forms of its relations to its receptacles, while it is itself in all of them, so likewise are the forms of the determinations called existents in relation to the absolute quiddity that occupies them, called the Real Existence.
So whether the things are the determinations of His aspects or the determinations of His existence, they are His names that indicate Him, and His attributes.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
Taʻayyunāt, determinations, together with their fayḍ or overflow from the First Principle: the emanationist terminology by which the descent from the absolute to the delimited is described as the successive determination of one Being.
The nearest of them to Being is what is called the Intellect, since it stands before all the determinations (*taʻayyunāt*) and is the meeting-place of their overflow from the First Principle;