The human body
object · 2 works · 3 mentions · 6 anchored passages
the body · البدن · badan al-insān · nature's natural instruments · the corpse · the frame · the human body · the members · the parts of the body · the sensible body
in the texts
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The physical body, the spirit's mount, prison and correlate, whose relation to the spirit organizes the chapter.
People have differed over the spirit, whether it is created before the body, or after it, or with it.
The first is that the human being is a luminous, upper, living, self-moving body, differing in essence from this sensible body, permeating it as water permeates the rose, and oil the olive, and fire the charcoal;
and if the soul has an innate orientation toward passing from this world over to the world of the hereafter, and an essential, substantial motion toward nearness to God, exalted be He, toward entry into the world of spirits and toward being veiled from the abode of darknesses and the corporeal veils — for embodiment is the very veil, and darkness, and ignorance — then what is the cause of souls' a …
Kitāb al-Safīnah al-Nūḥīyah fī al-sakīnah al-rūḥīyah
The living human frame in which the three spirits arise and diffuse, whose dimensions increase by the faculty of growth and whose health and sickness set the boundary of medical enquiry.
Its mine is the heart, out of which it arises and diffuses through the rest of the body, and it carries the faculty of life;
Out of the brain it diffuses through the rest of the body, and its act is sensation and motion.
As for the psychic spirit, it too is a subtle, vaporous body, and it is below the natural spirit in heat although it is more subtle than it.