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three other categories: (i) irada (the will), which instigates, such as appetitive
(shahawa) and anger (ghadab); (ii) qudra (power), which includes sinews and
muscles, which are the actual means by, which the members are made to move:
(iii) al-ilm wa‟l-idrak (knowledge and perception, which provide information
acquired through the five external senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste and
touch, and also the five internal senses located in the brain, which are
imagination (takhayyul), the sensus communis (hiss mushtarak) (which
coordinates information received through the various faculties), thought
(tafakhar), remembrance (tadhakkur), and memory (hifz).
An Exposition on some Examples of the Heart and its Internal Soldiers
The armies of the appetite and irascible faculties may be submissive to the spirit,
thereby assisting it towards salvation, or rebellious, thus driving it to perdition. To
discipline and make use of these armies it must call on other soldiers, which are
knowledge, wisdom and thought.
(shahawa) and anger (ghadab); (ii) qudra (power), which includes sinews and
muscles, which are the actual means by, which the members are made to move:
(iii) al-ilm wa‟l-idrak (knowledge and perception, which provide information
acquired through the five external senses of hearing, sight, smell, taste and
touch, and also the five internal senses located in the brain, which are
imagination (takhayyul), the sensus communis (hiss mushtarak) (which
coordinates information received through the various faculties), thought
(tafakhar), remembrance (tadhakkur), and memory (hifz).
An Exposition on some Examples of the Heart and its Internal Soldiers
The armies of the appetite and irascible faculties may be submissive to the spirit,
thereby assisting it towards salvation, or rebellious, thus driving it to perdition. To
discipline and make use of these armies it must call on other soldiers, which are
knowledge, wisdom and thought.