tabiah
(aṭ-ṭabī‘ah)
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Nature. |
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Ṭabī‘at al-kull : universal Nature. An aspect of passive and “plastic” universal Substance (al-Ḥabā’) and is that Substance inasmuch as it generates the world; hence its material nature. Ibn ‘Arabī attributes to it a reality co-extensive with the whole of universal manifestation and identifies it with the “Expiration of the Compassionate.” |
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Introduction to Sufi Doctrine (by Titus Burckhardt) |
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