Root · 97 in the Quran · 253 in 23 texts of the library
أنسa single root meaning the appearing of a thing, and whatever runs contrary to the way of … (root ns)
الهمزة والنون والسين أصل واحد وهو ظهور الشيء وكل شيء خالف طريقة التوحش قالوا الإنس خلاف الجن وسموا لظهورهم
Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha · English rendering AI
The family of the root
Patterns computed · our dataThe words of أ ن س that our sources attest: the root's letters in green, the added letters in gold.
37 words6 verbs5 verbal nouns6 participles1 place or instrument3 intensives and elatives6 other nouns7 plurals3 relatives and abstracts
- إِنسَانhuman being
- إِنسchosen, select, particular, or special, friend or companion
- أُنْسsociableness
- إِنْسَانِيّhuman; humane
- ءَانَسَhe behaved in a sociable, friendly, or familiar, manner with him
The whole family8 groups, by pattern; tap a pattern to see what it does
Verbs6آنَسَ · ءَانَسَ · اِسْتَأْنَسَ
The root as an action: the bare Form I, and the Forms made by adding letters before, inside or after the root.grammar →
Form I vowels: فَعَلَ يَفْعَلُ (a – a; the imperfect from Lane's “aor.”)
- آنَسَhe was, or became, sociable, companionable, conversable, inclined to company …LaneForm Ilibrary ×6LaneIbn Fāris
- ءَانَسَhe behaved in a sociable, friendly, or familiar, manner with himLaneForm IVQurʾān ×5Lane
- اِسْتَأْنَسَForm XQurʾān ×1library ×3Lane
- اَنَّسَhe rendered him familiarLaneForm IILaneIbn Fāris
Verbal nouns5إِيناس · أَنَس · تَأْنِيس
The action itself, named as a noun (maṣdar).grammar →
- إِيناسcourtesy; friendlinessautoForm IV · Lane: inf. n.library ×2Lane
- أَنَسForm I · Lane: inf. n.LaneIbn Fāris
- تَأْنِيسhumanization; domesticationautoForm II · Lane: inf. n.library ×1Lane
- مُؤانَسَةconviviality; cordialityautoForm I · Lane: inf. n.library ×1Lane
- أَنَسَةForm I · Lane: inf. n.Lane
Participles6مُؤْنِس · مَأْنُوس · مُؤَانِس
The one who does it, and the one it is done to.grammar →
- مُؤْنِسname which the Arabs, and the ancients, used to give to ThursdayLaneactive, Form IVlibrary ×1Lane
- مَأْنُوسpassive, Form ILane
- مُؤَانِسactive, Form IIILane
- مُتَأَنِّسthe lionLaneactive, Form VLane
Place, time and instrument1مَأْنَس
Where or when it happens, and what it is done with: the m- nouns.grammar →
- مَأْنَسnoun of place or timeLane
Intensives, qualities and the elative3إِنسَان · أَنِيس · أَنُوس
The quality carried far, held as a trait, or compared.grammar →
- إِنسَانhuman beingautointensive (faʿlān)Qurʾān ×71library ×94LaneIbn Fāris
- أَنِيسthere is not in the house any one by whose company, or converse, or presence, …Lanequality (faʿīl)library ×1Lane
- أَنُوسtame, or gentle, dogLaneintensive (faʿūl)Lane
Other nouns6إِنس · أُنْس · آنَس
Nouns on other patterns; their meaning is learned word by word.grammar →
- إِنسchosen, select, particular, or special, friend or companionLanenounQurʾān ×18library ×6LaneIbn Fāris
- أُنْسsociablenessLanenounlibrary ×14LaneIbn Fāris
- آنَسmore, and most, sociableLanenounLaneIbn Fāris
- أَوانِسladiesautonounlibrary ×2
Plurals7أُنَاس · أَنَس · أَنَاسِىَّ
Broken plurals rebuild the word on a new pattern; sound plurals add an ending.grammar →
Relative and abstract3إِنْسَانِيّ · إِنسِيّ · إِنْسَانِيَّة
-iyy relates a thing to its source; -iyya makes an abstract noun.grammar →
- إِنْسَانِيّhuman; humaneautorelative adjective (-iyy)library ×13Lane
- إِنسِيّhumanautorelative adjective (-iyy)Qurʾān ×1library ×5
- إِنْسَانِيَّةabstract noun (-iyya)Lane
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Why this shape?What each of the 20 patterns does
What each pattern does. The pattern gives a tendency, not a rule: many words have drifted into meanings of their own.
The pattern machinePour the root into a pattern; see whether the word exists
Choose a pattern; the root's letters pour into it. Then see whether the word exists in our sources. The machine makes shapes; only usage makes words.
Not in our sources. A possible shape, not a word we can show: the Quran, the library and Lane do not have it for this root.
Place noun with -a. The place noun with the feminine -a. Sometimes it is only a variant of mafʿal; often it names the place where a thing is found in abundance (maʾsada, 'a place full of lions'). So maktab is the place of writing, and maktaba, where writings are gathered: a library, a bookshop. Our summary AI
But: maktaba is not in our classical dictionaries for k-t-b: Lane and al-Jawharī give maktab ('a school'), none gives maktaba. Its sense of 'library, bookshop' fits the pattern of abundance, but that is our reading of the pattern, not a classical entry. Many mafʿala words are single items of usage (maqbara 'cemetery'), which the grammarians call heard, not formed by rule.
The grammarians on this pattern (4)
ما يكون مفعلة لازمة لها الهاء والفتحة … وذلك إذا أردت أن تكثر الشيء بالمكان، وذلك قولك: أرض مسبعة، ومأسدة
Chapter on what is mafʿala, with the -a and the a-vowel always: that is when you mean that a thing abounds in a place, as you say 'a land of many beasts of prey (masbaʿa), of many lions (maʾsada)' AI
Sībawayh (d. c. 180/796), al-Kitāb, ed. ʿAbd al-Salām Hārūn, 3rd ed. (Cairo: al-Khānjī, 1988), 4:94 · OpenITI line 21027–21028 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
و نحو المظنة و المقبرة فتحا و ضما ليس بقياس
and words like maẓinna and maqbara (with a or u) are not by rule AI
Ibn al-Ḥājib (d. 646/1249), al-Shāfiya fī ʿilm al-taṣrīf, ed. Ḥasan Aḥmad al-ʿUthmān (Mecca: al-Maktaba al-Makkiyya, 1995), 1:30 · OpenITI line 223 ↗ · on this site · OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- “designate the place where the object signified by the noun from which they are formed, is found in large numbers or quantities” Wright, Grammar I, §247, p. 148 ↗ · on nouns of abundance, maf'ala · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
- “Nouns of time and place not unfrequently take the feminine form” Wright, Grammar I, §225, p. 128 ↗ · on maf'ala as a variant of maf'al · 3rd ed. (Cambridge, 1896) · public domain
This root has a weak or doubled letter, so real words change shape (qāla → qāʾil, not qāwil); the machine pours the letters in as they are, and matches attested words by their regular pattern.
About thisWhat “attested” means here; the sources
Attested means found in our data: the Quranic Arabic Corpus (lemmas, verb Forms, participles, verbal nouns, plurals), the library's words (automatic analysis), Lane's Lexicon (his headwords, the Forms he numbers, the verbal nouns and plurals he names) and Ibn Fāris's entry. Nothing is generated for this list. Meanings are Lane's first gloss in his entry, or else the analyser's gloss (“auto”). Vowelling follows the corpus, then Lane, then the analyser; verbs are given in the regular perfect. Lane's Lexicon thins out after qāf, and a few of his entries cover several roots at once: those roots show no Lane. The patterns, written with ف ع ل, are computed by us.
The dictionaries
English: AI translation AIal-Khalīl · 170Al-ins (الإنس) [mankind]: the group of people, they are al-anas (الأنس);
al-Khalīl b. Aḥmad (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn. The first Arabic dictionary, arranged by permutations of the root letters.
AI AI translation of the Arabic belowal-Jawharī · 393Al-ins (الإنس) [mankind]: human beings;
al-Jawharī (d. c. 393/1003), al-Ṣiḥāḥ. Admits only usage he judged sound.
AI AI translation of the Arabic belowIbn Fāris · 395The letters hamza, nūn, and sīn form one root, meaning the appearing/showing of a thing, and anything contrary to wildness/being untamed.
Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004), Maqāyīs al-Lugha. Seeks each root's original sense (aṣl).
AI AI translation of the Arabic belowal-Rāghib · 502...and the jinn (الجن) — they, in relation to God Most High, are passive (munfaʿila), while in relation to what they themselves make, they are active (fāʿila).
al-Rāghib al-Iṣfahānī (d. c. 502/1108), al-Mufradāt. Quranic vocabulary, from core sense to Quranic usage.
AI AI translation of the Arabic belowLisān · 711It is related that ʿUmar ibn al-Khaṭṭāb, God be pleased with him and his father, recited His saying, Mighty and Exalted: 'wa-fākihatan wa-abban (وفاكهة وأبا)' ['and fruit and abb (أب)'], and said: 'What is al-abb (الأب)?
Ibn Manẓūr (d. 711/1311), Lisān al-ʿArab. The great compendium of the earlier dictionaries (entry shortened).
AI AI translation of the Arabic belowLane · 1876English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.
E. W. Lane (d. 1876), An Arabic-English Lexicon. English, synthesising the classical dictionaries.
Lane, Arabic-English Lexiconread Lane's entry online ↗
The same letters, turned
The same three letters in all six orders. Choose one.
أ ن س
الهمزة والنون والسين أصل واحد وهو ظهور الشيء وكل شيء خالف طريقة التوحش قالوا الإنس خلاف الجن وسموا لظهورهم
a-n-s is one root, and it is the appearance of a thing, and anything that differs from the way of wildness; they said al-ins is the opposite of al-jinn, and they were so named for their visibility. AI
Ibn Fāris ↗Lisān ↗Lane ↗Quran ×97
an entry in Ibn Fārislater sources onlyin none of them
Do these six share one core meaning?
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About thisal-Khalīl, Ibn Jinnī, Ibn Fāris; the counts across the dictionary
al-Khalīl (d. c. 170/786), Kitāb al-ʿAyn, as transmitted by al-Layth: a two-letter word “turns in two ways”, a three-letter word “in six ways” (masdūsa), four letters in 24, five in 120; “its used forms are written down and its unused ones dropped” (line 975 ↗). The dictionary is built on this: each chapter takes a set of letters and names which orders are used (mustaʿmal) and which unused (muhmal). The ring shows that verdict, from the chapter heading as edited (documented in the text; how much of the book is al-Khalīl's own is disputed).
A reported total. al-Suyūṭī transmits, from Ḥamza al-Iṣfahānī, that al-Khalīl put the possible forms, used and unused, of two to five letters at 12,305,412 (al-Muzhir, line 1347 ↗). It is reported, not found in the ʿAyn. It equals exactly the arrangements of 2 to 5 different letters out of 28 (756 + 19,656 + 491,400 + 11,793,600); the breakdown printed beside it is corrupt, and al-Zubaydī's count, given next, differs (6,659,400).
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), al-Khaṣāʾiṣ, names the greater derivation (al-ishtiqāq al-akbar): bind a three-letter root and its six orders to one meaning, and bring stray members back “by the subtlety of the craft and interpretation” (line 7536 ↗). He says himself that it does not hold for every root (line 167 ↗; line 7603 ↗).
Ibn Fāris (d. 395/1004) gives each root its own aṣl and treats a rearranged word as maqlūb, “turned round”, and so not a root of its own: “j-b-dh is not a root, because it is a single word, turned round” (Maqāyīs, line 6147 ↗). The ring sets his aṣl for each order side by side; whether they meet is the question.
Neighbours on the ring differ by one swap of two letters.
The critique. A source quoted by al-Suyūṭī calls the greater derivation Ibn Jinnī's innovation, “not relied on in the language” (al-Muzhir, line 6159 ↗).
The other axis. The root's letters also go into patterns that keep their order and change the frame: the patterns (awzān) and the verb Forms I–X.
Across Ibn Fāris's dictionary. Of the 2,300 possible sets of three different sound letters (no hamza, w or y), 1,021 have at least one order as an entry. How many of their six orders are entries:
- 1 of 6319
- 2 of 6218
- 3 of 6164
- 4 of 6155
- 5 of 6107
- 6 of 658
- 1 of 6148
- 2 of 6108
- 3 of 6157
- 4 of 6179
- 5 of 6111
- 6 of 643
Of the orders al-Khalīl calls used, 2,097 are entries in Ibn Fāris and 267 are not; 17 that he calls unused are entries in Ibn Fāris.
Attested here means found in our digital texts (Ibn Fāris, Lisān al-ʿArab, Lane, the Quranic Arabic Corpus), with w and y kept apart and hamza spellings merged; it is our data, not a classical verdict. English beside the Arabic is AI translation. Sources and grades: docs/research/root-permutations.md.
Letters & sound
- أhamzadeep in the throat · voiced, stopSīb. · I. Jinnī
- نnūntip of the tongue · voiced, in betweenSīb. · I. Jinnī
- سsīntongue-tip, by the front teeth · voiceless, continuantSīb. · I. Jinnī
How each letter is made, in brief, from Sībawayh's and Ibn Jinnī's own sentences (linked); their words are under Reference.
Sharing two of its three letters (computed; kinship of form, not of meaning)
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How it is madeSībawayh and Ibn Jinnī · phonetics
English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic AI
أ
فأقصاها مخرجا: الهمزة والهاء والألف
The furthest of them [the three in the throat] in place: the hamza, the hāʾ and the alif. Sībawayh, line 26548 ↗
فأولها من أسفله وأقصاه، مخرج الهمزة والألف والهاء، هكذا يقول سيبويه
The first of them [in the throat], from its lowest and furthest part, is the place of the hamza, the alif and the hāʾ: so Sībawayh says. Ibn Jinnī, line 965 ↗
ن
ومن حافة اللسان من أدناها إلى منتهى طرف اللسان ما بينها وبين ما يليها من الحنك الأعلى وما فويق الثنايا مخرج النون
From the edge of the tongue, from its nearest part to the end of its tip, between it and the upper palate next to it and what is just above the front teeth, is the place of the nūn. Sībawayh, lines 26555–26556 ↗
ومن طرف اللسان بينه وبين ما فويق الثنايا، مخرج النون
From the tip of the tongue, between it and what is just above the front teeth, is the place of the nūn. Ibn Jinnī, line 979 ↗
س
ومما بين طرف اللسان وفويق الثنايا مخرج الزاي، والسين، والصاد
From between the tip of the tongue and just above the front teeth is the place of the zāy, the sīn and the ṣād. Sībawayh, line 26560 ↗
ومما بين الثنايا وطرف اللسان، مخرج الصاد والزاي والسين
From between the front teeth and the tip of the tongue is the place of the ṣād, the zāy and the sīn. Ibn Jinnī, line 983 ↗
Sībawayh, al-Kitāb (ed. Hārūn) and Ibn Jinnī, Sirr ṣināʿat al-iʿrāb; OpenITI digital texts (CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Full credits on each letter's page.
In the Breath of the All-MercifulIbn ʿArabī · metaphysics
English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic AI
أ
Nature (ch. 2)
وإلا الهاء والهمزة فإنهما باردتان رطبتان
And except hāʾ and hamza, for these two are cold and moist.
Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2583ن
Level of existence: السماء الرابعة · the fourth heaven
Divine Name: النور · the Light (al-Nūr)
Lunar mansion: السماك · al-Simāk
Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 64663Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 8 line 2571 ↗
Nature (ch. 2)
الثمانية فحروفها حارة يابسة
The eightfold [rank]: its letters are hot and dry.
Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2580س
Level of existence: ما ظهر في الماء · what appears in water
Divine Name: المحيي · al-Muḥyī, the Life-Giver
Lunar mansion: النعائم · al-Naʿāʾim
Futūḥāt ch. 198, line 62110Spheres of its simples (ch. 2): 9 line 2572 ↗
Nature (ch. 2)
السين والشين فطبعهما الحرارة واليبوسة
Sīn and shīn: their nature is heat and dryness.
Ibn ʿArabī, al-Futūḥāt al-Makkiyya, line 2581Meaning by vowelal-Dabbāgh · a visionary claim about a primordial “Syriac”, not historical Syriac
English throughout: AI translation of the Arabic AI
أ
With fatḥa ـَ
فهي إشارة إلى جميع الأشياء قلت أو كثرت، وتكون الإشارة في بعض الأحيان من المتكلم إلى ذاته ونفسه، وهذه الإشارة سالمة من القبض.
It is an indication of all things, whether few or many. At times the indication is from the speaker to his own essence and self, and this indication is free of contraction (qabḍ).
With ḍamma ـُ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء القريب القليل.
It is an indication of the near, small thing.
With kasra ـِ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء القريب المناسب.
It is an indication of the near, fitting (congruent) thing.
ن
With fatḥa ـَ
فهي الخير الساكن في الذات الشاعل فيها.
It is the good that dwells in the self, kindling [al-shāʿil, as written] within it.
With ḍamma ـُ
فهي إشارة إلى الخير الكامل أو النور الساطع.
It is an indication of perfect good or radiant light.
With kasra ـِ
فهي إشارة إلى شيء يدركه المتكلم أو هو له.
It is an indication of something that the speaker perceives or that belongs to him.
س
With fatḥa ـَ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء المليح الذي من طبعه الرقة.
It is an indication of the comely thing whose nature is delicacy.
With ḍamma ـُ
فهي إشارة إلى الشيء القبيح الخشن، أو إشارة إلى سواد حسا ومعنى.
It is an indication of the ugly, rough thing, or of blackness, sensible and figurative.
With kasra ـِ
وبالكسر إشارة إلى الشيء الطابع وتكون الإشارة منه.
With kasra it is an indication of the impressing/stamping thing, and the indication proceeds from it.
In the sister scriptsHebrew א נ ס/שSyriac ܐ ܢ ܣ/ܫ
| Arabic | أ ن س |
| Hebrew | א נ ס/ש |
| Syriac | ܐ ܢ ܣ/ܫ |
| Ancient South Arabian (musnad) | 𐩱 𐩬 𐩯/𐩦 |
| Phoenician | 𐤀 𐤍 𐤎/𐤔 |
Letter for letter, by the regular sound correspondences of the Semitic languages (Arabic keeps several sounds the others merged). This shows how the root would be spelled; whether a related word exists is a separate question, answered in the Semitic lens. Where an Arabic sibilant (s, sh) continues two older sounds, both spellings are shown.
Lenses
AIClassical lexiconAl-Khalīl uses ins for a company of people and uns, istiʾnās and taʾannus for familiarity.well attested
The lexicographers in chronological order, from al-Khalīl to Lane.
Al-Khalīl uses ins for a company of people and uns, istiʾnās and taʾannus for familiarity. He sets insī against waḥshī: the side of a bow that faces you against the side turned away, and a person's left side against the right. He notes that at nightfall every wild creature grows easy and every human grows wary, and gives ānastu for perceiving or feeling something ('I sensed fear') and for sighting a figure. Al-Jawharī glosses ins as bashar, with plural anāsī, allows insān for a woman while rejecting insāna as popular usage, and records insān al-ʿayn as the image seen in the pupil. Ibn Fāris unifies these under manifestation and non-wildness: humans are ins because they are visible in contrast to the jinn, and ānastu means first 'I saw' and by extension 'I heard.' Lane gives anisa bihi, 'he was familiar with it,' and notes that uns is the commoner verbal noun. (The Mufradāt and Lisān excerpts supplied here belong to neighbouring entries, unthā and abb, and are not used.)
Draws on: al-Khalīl · al-Jawharī · Ibn Fāris · Lane
- Wiktionary, Arabic root ء ن س ↗
- Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha, s.v. ʾns
- Lane, Arabic-English Lexicon, s.v. أنس
Letters & soundThe supplied data give no Ibn ʿArabī correspondence for any of the three letters, and no al-Dabbāgh meaning for hamza.speculative
What the theorists of sound symbolism would say of these letters. Speculative by nature.
The supplied data give no Ibn ʿArabī correspondence for any of the three letters, and no al-Dabbāgh meaning for hamza. Al-Dabbāgh reads nūn as the good that dwells in the self and kindles within it, and sīn as a sign of a comely thing whose nature is delicacy. A reader drawn to such schemes might set these beside uns, an inward ease toward something agreeable. Mainstream linguistics treats letter-meaning correspondences of this kind as suggestive at most.
Draws on: al-Dabbāgh · sound-symbolism
- al-Dabbāgh (via Ibn al-Mubārak), al-Ibrīz, on the letters of al-Fātiḥa
Root structureNo two-letter nucleus siblings are supplied for this root.plausible
The two-letter nucleus (Ibn Fāris's own chapters) and the permutations of the letters (Ibn Jinnī).
No two-letter nucleus siblings are supplied for this root. Among the permutations, ʾsn is attested and occurs once in the Quran (ghayr āsin, 47:15). Ibn Fāris gives ʾsn two roots, the altering of a thing (stagnant water) and a cause or tie. The permutation nsʾ is attested and occurs twice, and snʾ is attested outside the Quran. The classical derivation of insān from nisyān (root nsy) stands outside this permutation set because it replaces hamza with a weak letter. Ibn Jinnī's greater derivation does not yield a convincing common sense across these permutations.
Draws on: permutations · Ibn Fāris
- Ibn Fāris, Maqāyīs al-lugha, s.v. ʾsn
- Quran 47:15 ↗
Semitic kin & loanwordsArabic ins and insān belong with Hebrew ʾĕnôš 'man, mankind,' Aramaic ʾĕnāš and Syriac (ʾ)nāšā 'man, person,' Akkadian nišū 'people,' and Sabaic ʾns¹ 'man.' Whether this noun is related to the Hebrew verb ʾānaš 'to be weak, incurable' is disputed.well attested
Cognates in the sister languages, and whether the word was borrowed.
Arabic ins and insān belong with Hebrew ʾĕnôš 'man, mankind,' Aramaic ʾĕnāš and Syriac (ʾ)nāšā 'man, person,' Akkadian nišū 'people,' and Sabaic ʾns¹ 'man.' Whether this noun is related to the Hebrew verb ʾānaš 'to be weak, incurable' is disputed. The Arabic sense of familiarity or tameness, as opposed to wildness, has no clear counterpart in the cognate languages and looks like an inner-Arabic development. The word is inherited, not borrowed.
Draws on: Hebrew · Aramaic · Akkadian · Sabaic
Quranic exegesisOn Moses' 'I have perceived a fire' (innī ānastu nāran, 20:10), the exegetes take ānastu as seeing.plausible
How the classical exegetes read the word in the Quran.
On Moses' 'I have perceived a fire' (innī ānastu nāran, 20:10), the exegetes take ānastu as seeing. Al-Zamakhsharī specifies clear sight that leaves no doubt and connects it with insān al-ʿayn. On 'if you perceive in them maturity' (fa-in ānastum minhum rushdan, 4:6), al-Ṭabarī reads ānastum as knowing or discerning soundness in orphans before their property is handed over. On 'man was created weak' (4:28), commentators take insān as the human kind at large. On tastaʾnisū (24:27), al-Ṭabarī reports early views that it means seeking permission or making oneself known before entering. The commentaries, al-Rāzī's especially, discuss whether insān derives from uns (familiarity) or from nisyān (forgetting).
Draws on: al-Ṭabarī · al-Zamakhsharī · al-Rāzī
Akbarian readingFaṣṣ Ādam reports that the Sufis call the form of the world 'the Great Human' (al-insān al-kabīr).well attested
The word in Ibn ʿArabī's text and terminology.
Faṣṣ Ādam reports that the Sufis call the form of the world 'the Great Human' (al-insān al-kabīr). The angels are to it as the spiritual and sensory faculties are to the human configuration (al-nashʾa al-insāniyya), and each faculty, veiled by itself, sees nothing superior to itself. Adam is named insān because his configuration is universal and he gathers all realities. The passage goes on to say he is to the Real as the pupil (insān al-ʿayn) is to the eye, the means by which seeing occurs, which draws on the lexical sense al-Jawharī and Ibn Fāris record. The same chapter speaks of the world being preserved while 'this Perfect Human' (al-insān al-kāmil) remains in it. No Iṣṭilāḥ definition is supplied for this root.
Draws on: Fuṣūṣ, Faṣṣ Ādam
- Ibn ʿArabī, Fuṣūṣ al-ḥikam, Faṣṣ Ādam
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