The human soul
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a subtle luminous body · al-nafs al-insāniyah · al-nafs al-insānīyah · the human soul · النفس الأنسانية · النفس الانسانية · جسم لطيف نوراني
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
Al-nafs al-insāniyah, understood by the author not as an immaterial substance but as a subtle luminous body, differing from vegetative and bestial souls in reality and from other human souls in description.
Then the human soul attaches to it, which we said is a subtle luminous body, and what appears is that it differs from the first two in reality.
As for the soul at peace in the friends of God (awliyāʼ), disobedience is admissible of it, but remotely;
As for the ordering in the states of the soul of man, we say:
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The specifically human soul, marked off by wonder, laughter, weeping, shame and modesty, and by a knowledge of worth that lapses when the animal faculties rule.
rather he knows precious things and base things of himself — and this when the human soul (*al-nafs al-insānīyah*) does not fall under the rule of the animal faculties (*al-quwā al-ḥayawānīyah*).
On setting forth the properties peculiar to the human soul (*al-nafs al-insānīyah*)