Tajarrud

تجردtajarrud

Preferred translation
immateriality
Technical sense
being free of matter and of potency

General Technical Meaning

Tajarrud is immateriality: the condition of being free from matter and its material concomitants. In the philosophers’ formal delimitation, a mujarrad is neither a substratum for a substance, nor inhering in another substance, nor composed of the two.

Reader note. This entry concerns philosophical immateriality. It does not cover ascetic detachment or assert a particular theory of degrees of immateriality.

In ʿAllāmah Ṭabāṭabāʾī’s Works

In al-Manāmāt, when the soul touches something from the world of light and immateriality, it renders that contact through a corresponding form in the world of sense. This context-bound use applies tajarrud to an ontological realm and does not describe the mental act of abstraction (tajrīd).

Source: Nihāyat al-Ḥikmah · Risālat al-Manāmāt wa-l-Nubuwwāt

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