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1. The sensible faculty, this faculty in its entirety.
which is the common The imaginative faculty.
point between man and We find three peculiarities
animal and is based on for it: First, it is made of
the five material senses; opaque material, because
According to him, The the object perceived by
sensible faculty... Its the imagination has
lights [the five senses] dimensions, a shape,
come out through a directions and limits.
number of holes, such Secondly, when this opaque
as the eyes, ears and imagination is purified,
nostrils, and the symbol refined, polished and rectified,
that best corresponds to it then becomes conformable
it is the “Niche”. to intellectual realities.
(Ghazali, 1924: 80) Thirdly, at the beginning,
2. The imaginative faculty, one needs the imagination
which receives data to control the intellectual
collected by the first knowledge.
faculty and archives These three properties
them in order to provide are only found in the
them to the third faculty “glass”. Originally, in
of human understanding; fact, it is an opaque
it consists of the substance; But, purified
capacity of human being and refined, it does not
to make images and to mask the light of the
keep them in his/her mind. lamp and transmits it as
Ghazali says that some it is, protecting it moreover
animals with more developed against gusts of wind.
brains are also endowed Glass is, therefore, the
with this faculty. As for main symbol of imagination.
the human being, children (Ghazali, 1924: 80)
and infants do not have
