Shaqāwa

شقاوةshaqāwa

Preferred translation: wretchedness
Technical sense: the extreme end opposed to felicity, reached through deviancy of constitution or through formation

General Technical Meaning

Shaqāwa is the contrary of saʿāda (felicity).

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In the reviewed al-Manāmāt classification, ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī uses shaqāwa for the opposed path and extreme end associated with deviancy of natural constitution; intermediate cases can also move toward it under formative conditions. This is not simply a synonym for a passing unhappiness, nor an exhaustive account of every form of moral failure.

Source: Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Five — On Good and Evil, the Beneficial and the Harmful · passage 1
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Eight — How Knowledge Is Acquired by the Human Being · passage 5
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Nine: On the State of Human Individuals with Respect to Their Degrees · passage 2
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 19
On Dreams and Prophecies · Chapter Ten: On that to which the people of felicity ultimately come. · passage 24
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 1
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · al-Baqarah 2:124
Tafsīr al-Mīzān · Author’s Introduction

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