What does Al-lwḥ mean?

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Discover the meaning of the term Al-lwḥ (لوح) in Islamic vocabulary.

Definition Al-lwḥ

Al-lwḥ according to Kitab at-Ta'rifat (Al-Jurjani)

It is the Manifest Book and the Universal Soul. The Tablets are four: the tablet of the primordial decree preceding erasure and confirmation, which is the tablet of the First Intellect; the tablet of destiny, meaning the tablet of the universal rational soul in which the universalities of the first Tablet are detailed and which relates to their causes, and it is the Preserved Tablet; and the tablet of the celestial partial soul in which everything in this world is imprinted with its form, shape, and measure, which is called the lowest heaven, and which acts as the imagination of the world, just as the first acts as

Al-lwḥ according to At-Tawqif (Al-Munawi)

It is the Manifest Book, the Universal Soul, the locus of recording and the manifestation of what is deferred until a known term.

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