al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
Supplement to the discussion of the soul that incites to evil, the soul that reproaches, and the soul at peace
Medieval Miskawayh Arabicwa-al-khawf fī ṭibāʻihā ʻammā yalḥaq bi-dhātihā ʻan al-āfāt al-ʻāriḍah wa-al-ʻāhāt al-wāridah ʻalayhā ḥathan li-nufūsihā ʻalá ḥifẓ abdānihā wa-kilāʼat ajsāmihā wa-ṣiyānat hayākilihā min al-āfāt al-ʻāriḍah lahā idh al-ajsād lā-shuʻūr lahā fī dhātihā wa-lā-qudrah lahā ʻalá jarr manfaʻah aw dafʻ maḍarrah fa-law lam yakun al-alam wa-al-khawf fī nufūsihā la-tahāwanat al-nufūs bi-al-ajsād wa-khidmatihā wa-aslamatʹhā ilá al-mahālik qabl fanāʼ aʻmārihā wa-inqiḍāʼ ājālihā wa-ahlakat fī asraʻ muddah qabl taḥṣīl nashʼah kamālīyah barzakhīyah wa-taʻmīr al-bāṭin wa-dhālika yunāfí al-maṣlaḥah al-ilāhīyah wa-al-ḥikmah al-kullīyah fī ījādihā wa-laysat al-ālām wa-al-awjāʻ al-mūdaʻah fī al-ḥayawānāt ka-mā ẓannahu qawm min al-tanāsukhīyah min annahā min bāb al-ʻuqūbāt lahā bal li-mā dhakarnā āh
Tatimmah fī al-kalām ʻalá al-nafs al-ammārah wa-al-lawwāmah « wa-al-muṭmaʼinnah »
Al-nafs huwa al-jawhar al-bukhārī al-ḥāmil li-qūwat al-ḥayāh wa-al-ḥiss wa-al-ḥarakah al-arādīyah wa-sammāhu al-Ḥakīm al-rūḥ al-ḥayawānī wa-hiya al-wāsiṭah bayn al-qalb al-ladhī huwa al-nafs al-nāṭiqah wa-bayn al-badan al-mushār ilayhi bihā fī al-Qurʼān bi-al-shajarah al-zaytūnīyah al-mawṣūfah bi-kawnihā mubārakah lā sharqīyah wa-lā gharbīyah li-izdiyād rutbat al-insān wa-tarakkubihi bihā wa-li-kawnihā laysat min sharq ʻālam al-arwāḥ al-mujarradah wa-lā min gharb ʻālam al-ajsād al-kathīfah fa-al-nafs al-ammārah hiya al-latí tamīl ilá al-ṭabīʻah al-badanīyah wa-taʼmur bi-al-ladhdhāt wa-al-shahawāt al-ḥissīyah wa-tajdhib al-qalb ilá al-jihah al-suflīyah fa-hiya maʼwá al-sharr wa-manbaʻ al-akhlāq al-dhamīmah wa-al-afʻāl al-sayyiʼah qāla taʻālī ( inna al-nafs la-ammārah bi-al-sūʼ )
Wa-al-nafs al-lawwāmah hiya al-latí tanawwarat bi-qadr-mā tanabbahat min sinat al-ghaflah wa-tayaqqaẓat wa-badaʼat bi-iṣlāḥ ḥālihā mutaraddidah bayn jihatí al-rubūbīyah wa-al-khalqīyah wa-kullamā ṣadarat minhā sayyiʼah bi-ḥukm jibillatihā al-aṣlīyah al-ẓulmānīyah tadārakahā al-nūr al-tanbīhī al-ilāhī fa-akhadhat talūm nafsahā wa-tatūb mustaghfirah rājiʻah ilá bāb al-Ghafūr al-Raḥīm wa-li-hādhā nawwaha Allāh bi-dhikrihā bi-al-iqsām fī qawlihi ( lā uqsimu bi-al-nafs al-lawwāmah )
Wa-al-nafs al-muṭmaʼinnah hiya al-latí tamma tanawwuruhā bi-nūr al-qalb ḥattá inkhalaʻat ʻan ṣifātihā al-dhamīmah wa-takhallaqat bi-al-akhlāq al-ḥamīdah wa-tawajjahat ilá jihat al-qalb bi-al-kullīyah musābiqah fī al-taraqqí ilá jānib ʻālam al-quds mutanazzihah ʻan jānib al-rijs muwāẓibah ʻalá al-ṭāʻāt sākinah ilá ḥaḍrat rafīʻ al-darajāt wa-hiya al-mushār ilayhā bi-qawlihi ( yā ayyatuhā al-nafs al-muṭmaʼinnah irjiʻī ilá rabbika rāḍiyah marḍīyah fa-udkhulī fī ʻibādī wa-udkhulī jannatí )