world religion world religion maps world religion symbols
Encyclopedia of Religion entry for
Five Senses
Arabic al-hawassul l-khamsak 
According to Muhammadan writers, there are five external (zahari) sense and five internal (bating) senses. The former being those five faculties known amongst the European writes as seeing (basirah), hearing (sam ‘ah), smelling (shammah), taste (za ‘iqah), touch (lamisah). The latter: common sense (hiss-I-mushtarok), the imaginative faculty (quat-I-khail), the thinking faculty (quat-I-mutasarrifah), the instinctive faculty (quat-I-wahimah), the retentive faculty (quat-I-hafizah).
citations: Dictionary of Islam, Hughes
article created 2006-04-12 , last updated 2006-04-12
"In the early days of the Indian Territory, there were no such things as ordination certificate. You being there was certificate enough." Will Rogers
© 2012 world-religion.org