The animal soul
idea · 3 works · 3 mentions · 5 anchored passages
النفس الحيوانية · al-nafs al-ḥayawānīyah · the animal soul · nafs · noble of soul · soul · النفس · كريم النفس
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The soul of animals, classed with the vegetative soul among the bodily souls that subsist in the matter of bodies.
it is the vegetative soul that is in plants and the animal soul that is in animals;
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The sentient, self-moving soul, tied to the spirit in the heart, whose functions the chapter withdraws from the brain.
and this soul is bound to the spirit that is in the heart, since it is sentient and moves by will.
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The soul, in tension with the spirit: sometimes identical to it, sometimes the lower embodied agent that must be disciplined into spirit.
the spirit stands in the place of the husband and the animal soul in the place of the wife, and He set between them a mutual love.
the soul is the root in the human being, and when it is burnished by discipline (riyāḍah) and by the kinds of remembrance and thought, it becomes spirit, and then rises until it becomes a secret among the secrets of God.
people have differed over the spirit and the soul, whether they are one thing or two things.