Semen
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
nuṭfah · semen · the body of the semen · the seed · المنى · النطفة · جسم المنى
spoken of as
1 expressionThe semen1 mention
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah (Arabic)
and his words “alive in potency” mean that the soul is united with the body of the semen, which is alive in potency (4)
in the texts
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The generative material, called al-manī and al-nuṭfah, engendered by the generative faculty and shaped by the formative faculty so that a new individual of the same species arises.
Generation is the engendering of semen, so that from it another of its own species may come to be, lest the species be cut off by the death of the individual.
the other after satiety, namely the formative faculty by which the shaping in the seed takes place — and this is nearer to the voluntary faculties.
Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The seminal body, named in the exposition of Aristotle's definition as what is alive in potency and as that with which the soul unites.
and his words “alive in potency” mean that the soul is united with the body of the semen, which is alive in potency (4)
[7] 4 ) In the original: *ḥayyan*.