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 "id": "concept/four-elements",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "four-elements",
 "label": {
  "ar": "الأركان الأربعة",
  "en": "The four elements (al-arkan)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "الأركان عند ابن سينا أجسام بسيطة لا تنقسم إلى أجسام مختلفة الصورة، ومنها تتركب الكائنات بالامتزاج، وهي أربعة: النار والهواء خفيفان، والماء والأرض ثقيلان. يصف الأرض بأنها باردة يابسة، والماء بأنه بارد رطب {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}. ويتسلم الطبيب هذا من علم الطبيعة ولا يبرهن عليه في صناعته {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}.",
  "en": "For Ibn Sina the elements are simple bodies, not divisible into bodies different in form, and all compound beings are made from them by mixture. There are four: fire and air are light, water and earth heavy. He describes earth as cold and dry and water as cold and wet {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}. The physician takes this from natural philosophy and does not prove it within his own craft {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}."
 },
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 "wings": [],
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 "periods": [],
 "tags": [],
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 "themes": [],
 "data": {
  "kind": "scientific",
  "sources": [
   "source/canon-ibn-sina-print-v1"
  ],
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "Canon of Medicine, vol. 1, Book I, Fann 1, Ta'lim 2 (scan page 17), Arabic printed edition (Dar al-Kutub al-Ilmiyya, 1999)",
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5",
   "model": "claude-haiku-5-5",
   "run": "lib-exp-medicine-science-canon-batch-2"
  },
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Claude Haiku 5.5 (library-expansion); citations corrected from front matter to Book I"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "نظرة عامة",
     "markdown": "الأركان عند ابن سينا أجسام بسيطة لا تنقسم إلى أجسام مختلفة الصورة، ومنها تتركب الكائنات بالامتزاج، وهي أربعة: النار والهواء خفيفان والماء والأرض ثقيلان؛ يصف الأرض بأنها باردة يابسة والماء بأنه بارد رطب {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}. ويتسلم الطبيب هذا من علم الطبيعة ولا يبرهن عليه في صناعته {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/four-elements",
    "lang": "ar"
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "For Ibn Sina the elements are simple bodies that do not divide into bodies of different forms — from them creatures are compounded by mixture; they are four: fire and air are light, water and earth heavy; earth he describes as cold and dry, water as cold and moist {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}. The physician takes this on trust from natural philosophy and does not prove it in his own craft {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/four-elements",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  },
  "ur": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "جائزہ",
     "markdown": "ابن سینا کے نزدیک ارکان سادہ اجسام ہیں جو مختلف صورتوں کے اجسام میں منقسم نہیں ہوتے؛ انھی سے مرکب ہو کر مخلوقات بنتی ہیں — چار ہیں: آگ اور ہوا ہلکی، پانی اور زمین بھاری؛ زمین سرد اور خشک، پانی سرد اور تر {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}۔ طبیب یہ علمِ طبیعت سے مسلم لیتا ہے اور اپنی صنعت میں اس پر برہان نہیں دیتا {cite:canon-ibn-sina-print-v1 p.17}۔"
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/four-elements",
    "lang": "ur",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "ai"
    ]
   },
   "updated": "2026-10-22"
  }
 },
 "degree": 2,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "updated": "2026-10-19",
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "concept/medicine",
   "type": "part_of",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/canon-ibn-sina-print-v1"
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  }
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 "related": [
  "concept/anatomy",
  "concept/disease",
  "concept/health",
  "concept/humours",
  "concept/medical-treatment",
  "concept/powers-and-actions",
  "concept/regimen-of-health",
  "concept/symptoms-and-signs"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}