Al-quwwa al-ghaḍabiyya

القوة الغضبيةal-quwwa al-ghaḍabiyya

Preferred translation: irascible faculty
Also rendered contextually as: anger
Grammatical variants: irascible
irascibility
Technical sense: the faculty that moves to repel what is imagined as harmful, in pursuit of mastery

General Technical Meaning

The irascible faculty initiates motion that repels what is imagined as harmful or corrupting, in pursuit of mastery.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In the reviewed ethical psychology, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī distinguishes the irascible power by its repulsion of evil and harm. The term names the faculty itself; ordinary anger is not in every context the faculty.

Source: Nihāyat al-Ḥikmah

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On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Three — Effects Issuing from the Human Being by Will Differ in Strength and Weakness · passage 4
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Seven — That Between Acts and Faculties There Is a Connection · passage 5
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 9
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 10
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 11
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 2
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eleven — On the States of the Consummate Wretched · passage 3
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Twelve — On the State of the Intermediate Common Folk · passage 2
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Fifteen — On Prophethood and Messengership and What Follows Them of Revelation, Inspiration, the Veridical Dream, the Miracle, the Preternatural, and the Charism · passage 3

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