Emanation
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al-fayḍ · al-jūd · fayyāḍ muṭlaq · fayḍān · liberality · الجود · الفيض · فياض مطلق · فيضان النفس · مبدعها
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Risālat al-Wāridāt
Fayḍ, the ceaseless divine overflow or liberality (jūd) that never halts for an instant, sets every existent in its proper station, and is the premise for both the world's perpetual motion and God's provision of prophets.
Hence you find nothing but what is in motion, and nothing that comes to be save from motion — and that because the overflow does not halt for a single instant of the instants, the [divine] liberality being universal.
And the overflow of this self-disclosure comes by turning toward its true principle;
And when the Real had furnished them with what sets their bodies right, out of all the necessities of their livelihoods, and with what preserves this species against domination, it was necessary that He should prepare for them, out of His liberality and His overflow, that which would be a cause for the cultivation of their intellects and the purifying of their souls, and a physician for their inward maladies:
Risālat baqāʼ al-nafs baʻda fanāʼ al-jasad
Fayḍān, the soul's outflowing from its Mubdiʻ, with God as its mufīḍ or bestower; the relation that replaces bodily causation and grounds the soul's permanence in the permanence of its cause.
(“And when the soul has emanated from its Originator upon the body, or has become attached to it — on whichever of the two doctrines it may be — there no longer remains for the body, nor for anything that attaches to it, any effect of causality nor any effect of conditionality in the soul's existence nor in its subsistence.
while the body's subsistence depends upon the soul's existence, because the soul is what preserves and maintains it by the governing of nourishment to it in place of what dissolves away.
And there is no relation between the body, which has a particular position, and the soul, which has no position, according to what was established in the foregoing premises and disclosed from its proper effects.