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Elements
. Arabic al- ‘Anasiru ‘l-arha ‘ah The respective properties of these elements are said to be as follows: Fire, hot and dry; air, hot and cold; water, cold and wet; earth, cold and dry. A knowledge of the properties of the four elements is required in the so-called science of Da ‘wah. [DA ‘WAH.] 
. "The four elements" of fire (nar), ari (hawa), water (ma ‘), and earth (arz), from which all creation mineral, animal, and vegetable is produced.
citations: Dictionary of Islam, Hughes
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