The seed and the tree
object · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
the seed · the tree · al-shajarah · al-ḥabbah · its branches, leaves and fruits · the sowing-field · الحبة · الشجرة
spoken of as
1 expressionThe tree and the seed1 mention
Risālat al-Wāridāt (Arabic)
that the tree is a phase of the seed and one of its modes;
in the texts
Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi
The agricultural image by which this world is the sowing-field of the next, the seed itself appearing after unfolding as tree, branch, leaf and fruit.
for it is as though the seed were the matter of what grows from it — nay, it is that which itself appears, after its unfolding, in the form of the tree and its branches and its leaves and its fruits.
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The tree and the seed from which it grows, offered as a similitude in which the effect is not a second thing beside its cause but one of the cause's own phases and modes.
that the tree is a phase of the seed and one of its modes;