TY  - JOUR
ID  - 4789
UR  - https://bahai-library.com/rafati_hikmat_agents_patients
WT  - Baha'i Library Online
T1  - Lawh-i-Hikmat: The Two Agents and the Two Patients
T2  - 
JF  - Andalib
JA  - 
A1  - Rafati,Vahid
A2  - Brown,Keven, translator
A3  - 
Y1  - 2002
Y2  - 
VL  - 5
IS  - 19
SP  - 29
EP  - 38
M2  - 
PB  - 
CY  - 
M1  - BH00020; BH00629; BH00843; BH02784; BH11218; AB00373; BH00548
M3  - Articles; Study
SN  -         
LA  - English
L3  - 
DO  - 
U1  - 
U2  - 
U3  - 
AB  - Discussion of the two terms fa`ilayn (the active force / "the generating influence") and munfa`ilayn (its recipient / "such as receive its impact") in Islamic philosophy, and their later use in Shaykhi and Bahá'í texts.
N1  - Translated by Brown in 2002; actual date of Andalib issue 5:19 not given. See also Brown's translation of A Tablet of 'Abdu'l-Bahá Explaining Three Verses in the Lawh-i-Hikmat.
C1  - 
KW  - Active force and its recipient
KW  - Cosmology
KW  - Creation
KW  - Islam
KW  - Lawh-i-Hikmat (Tablet of Wisdom)
KW  - Philosophy
KW  - Philosophy, Greek
KW  - Philosophy, Islamic
KW  - Science
ER  -