Innate heat
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الحرارة الغريزية · al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah · fiery parts · the innate heat · أجزاء نارية
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Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
Al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah, the innate bodily heat, whose diversion explains both the fasting of the sick and the prolonged abstinence of the perfect.
we see that when the hot diseases befall some people, a man remains a long while without nourishment, because the innate heat is there occupied with repelling the disease and so dissolves nothing of the body, and therefore he stands in no need of nourishment so long as he is beheld in the disease.
rather death is the extinction of the innate heat (*al-ḥarārah al-gharīzīyah*), which is an accident accruing to the body when the temperament (*mizāj*) it has attained is balanced.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The innate heat, one of the reported identifications of what the human being essentially is.
It is said that it is fiery parts mingled with the cardiac and cerebral spirits, which are called the innate heat;