Iʿtidāl

اعتدالiʿtidāl

Preferred translation: equilibrium
Also rendered contextually as: moderation
Technical sense: equilibrium of the faculties

General Technical Meaning

Iʿtidāl is an equilibrium opposed to both excess and deficiency. In ethical psychology it is expressed through the mean states of the faculties; in philosophical medicine, iʿtidāl al-mizāj is balance among the four humoral constituents of bodily temperament.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In al-Manāmāt, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī treats equilibrium as the ordering of subordinate faculties so that their acts do not damage human perfection by moving toward excess or deficiency.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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On Dreams and Prophecies · Introduction by Ustād Fayyāḍbakhsh · passage 6
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Five — On Good and Evil, the Beneficial and the Harmful · passage 4
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Seven — That Between Acts and Faculties There Is a Connection · passage 5
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Seven — That Between Acts and Faculties There Is a Connection · passage 6
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 6
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 9

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