LessonsEntities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and BodyQuiz

أو غير مركب كالجوهر يعني العين الذي لا يقبل الانقسام
Or it may be noncomposite, like the substance that does not admit division.

Here jawhar fard refers to a basic indivisible constituent. It marks the difference between a composite body and a purported elementary substance.

It does not simply mean something extremely small. A tiny object may still be divisible. The defining assertion is incapacity for division, not invisibility or small observable size.

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The noncomposite jawhar fard

Entities and Accidents: Subsistence, Substance and Body

أو غير مركب كالجوهر يعني العين الذي لا يقبل الانقسام
Or it may be noncomposite, like the substance that does not admit division.

Here jawhar fard refers to a basic indivisible constituent. It marks the difference between a composite body and a purported elementary substance.

It does not simply mean something extremely small. A tiny object may still be divisible. The defining assertion is incapacity for division, not invisibility or small observable size.