Faintheartedness
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
خور · cowardice · faintheartedness · fashal · khawar · فشل
in the texts
Risālah fī ʻilm al-akhlāq
Khawr, cowardice defined as fear arriving only after commitment, as against caution which precedes it.
but if he has plunged into it and then dreads it, that is faintheartedness.
Adab al-wazīr
The vice of excess caution, named as both khawar and fashal.
if it goes beyond, it becomes faintheartedness (khawar), just as boldness has a limit which, if it goes beyond, becomes recklessness;