The world of generation and corruption
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عالم الكون والفساد · the world of generation and corruption · this world · this world of generation · ʻālam al-kawn wa-al-fasād · الدنيا · هذا العالم الكوني
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Mukhtaṣar fī ʻilm al-nafs al-insānīyah
The sublunary world of generation and corruption, named as the domain in which illumined souls exercise miraculous power.
the first, [70] that when they are illumined by the divine flashes and the heavenly lights (2), they grow strong and are enabled for what they choose to do in the world of generation and corruption, of prodigies and dazzling things (3), and the birds and the beasts of prey and the natures obey them;
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
The sublunary realm of coming to be and passing away, named as man's place, as the reason external goods are unstable, and as the source of the cares that impede wisdom.
All these are from outside the body, exposed to calamities, shifting with the shifting of conditions, which are of necessity changeable, since they belong to the world of generation and corruption, and the rulings of that world, with their transmutation, run upon them.
Since it has been shown that every existent has a perfection proper to it and an end for which and for the sake of which it exists, it follows necessarily that man, who is the noblest of the existents in this world of generation, is the fitter for this making, and that he has a perfection and a completion and a purpose for which and for the sake of which he exists.
⟩ amid the accidents of this world and its cares, and the sicknesses of the soul and of the body and their conjunction, and the wariness now of the common people and now of the ruler, and the watchfulness of the people of the town;