Rusūkh

رسوخrusūkh

Preferred translation
rootedness
Also rendered contextually as
firm establishment
Grammatical variants
taken root
Technical sense
rooted firmness

General Technical Meaning

Rusūkh is firmness and secure establishment; in knowledge, it is verified mastery not displaced by doubt.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

rooted firmness — explanation

Repeated arrival explicitly produces rootedness and difficulty of removal, through increased attention to a cognitive form.

Limits of this account

It does not explicitly posit a four-stage sequence of repetition, habituation, rootedness, and settled disposition.

al-Mīzān fī Tafsīr al-Qurʾān

rooted firmness — definition and use

In commentary on Āl ʿImrān 3:7, rusūkh is the utmost firmness: those firmly rooted in knowledge have stable knowledge of God and His signs, free from doubt, and the ambiguous does not unsettle that knowledge.

Limits of this account

It does not establish the Chapter 4 causal account in which repeated arrival makes a cognitive form hard to remove, reduces deliberation, and yields habitus; nor does it identify that account with the Qurʾānic role of the firmly rooted.

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Canonical address: /glossary/rusukh/