Bāṭil

باطلbāṭil

Preferred translation: falsehood
Also rendered contextually as: sheer falsehood
Grammatical variants: false
Technical sense: what does not accord with the relevant order — invalid at its root, or in an ontological register nonexistent

General Technical Meaning

Bāṭil can mark what is invalid at its root or, in an ontological register, what is nonexistent.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In al-Manāmāt, bāṭil is used contextually for what does not accord with the relevant order and is further qualified as false by accident. These author-context uses do not replace the general senses of invalidity and nonexistence.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

Read in context

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On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eight — How Knowledge Is Acquired by the Human Being · passage 4
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eight — How Knowledge Is Acquired by the Human Being · passage 5
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 6
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Sixteen — On the Reality of Sorcery and Soothsaying and What Resembles Them · passage 3
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Baqarah 2:63–74
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Māʾidah 5:27–32
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · Author’s Introduction

Canonical address: /glossary/batil/