قالوا: فلما تعلق هذا الروح بتلك القرارة، خضعت له جميع القوى وسجدت له وسخرت بأمر الله تعالى في كمالها، فتكون بازاء تلك القرارة نفاخة أخرى منقسمة إلى ثلاث قرارت بينهما حجب لطيفة، ومسالك نافذة، وامتلأت بمثل ذلك الهوائي الذي امتلأت منه القرارة الأولى؛ إلا أنه ألطف منه.
They said: When this spirit attached to that cavity, all the powers submitted to it and prostrated to it and were made subservient by the command of God Almighty in their entirety. Then, opposite that cavity, another bubble formed, divided into three cavities, between which were delicate partitions and penetrating passages, and it filled with the like of that airy substance with which the first cavity had filled; except that it was finer than it.
وفي هذه البطون الثلاثة المنقسمة من واحد، طائفة من تلك القوى التي خضعت له وتوكلت بحراستها والقيام عليها، وإنهاء ما يطرأ فيها من دقيق الأشياء وجليلها إلى الروح الأول المتعلق بالقرارة الأولى.
And in these three bellies, divided from one, there is a group of those powers that submitted to it and undertook to guard them and manage them, and to convey what occurs in them of fine and coarse things to the first spirit attached to the first cavity.
وتكون بازاء هذه القرارة من الجهة المقابلة للقراءة الثانية، نفاخة ثالثة مملوءة جسماً هوائياً، إلا أنه أغلظ من الأولين وسكن في هذه القرارة فريق من تلك القوى الخاضعة، وتوكلت بحفظها والقيام عليها؛ فكانت هذه القرارة الأولى والثانية والثالثة، أول ما تخلق من تلك الطينة المتحمرة على الترتيب الذي ذكرناه.
And opposite this cavity, from the side facing the second cavity, a third bubble forms, filled with an airy body, except that it is coarser than the first two; and a group of those submissive powers settled in this cavity and undertook to preserve it and manage it. Thus these cavities—the first, second, and third—were the first things created from that reddened clay in the order we mentioned.
واحتاج بعضها إلى بعض: فالأولى منها حاجتها إلى الآخرين، حاجة استخدام وتسخير.
And some of them needed others: the first of them needed the other two with a need of employment and subjugation.
والأخريان حاجتهما إلى الأولى حاجة المرؤوس إلى الرئيس، والمدبر إلى المدبر؛ وكلاهما لما يتخلق بعدهما من الأعضاء رئيس لا مرؤوس.
And the other two needed the first with the need of the subordinate for the leader, and the managed for the manager; and both of them are, in relation to the organs that are created after them, a leader, not a subordinate.
وأحدهما، وهو الثاني، أتمم رئاسة من الثالث فالأول منهما لما تعلق به الروح، واشتعلت حرارته تشكل بشكل النار لصنوبري وتشكل أيضاً الجسم الغليظ المحدق به على شكله، وتكون لحماً صلباً، وصار عليه غلاف صفيق يحفظه وسمي العضو كله قلباً واحتاج لما يتبع الحرارة من التحليل وافناء الرطوبات إلى شيء يمده ويغذوه، ويخلف ما تحلل منه على الدوام، وإلا لم يطل بقاؤه، واحتاج أيضاً إلى تحسس بما يلائمه فيجذبه، وبما يخالفه فيدفعه.
And one of them, which is the second, is more complete in leadership than the third. The first of them, because the spirit attached to it and its heat blazed, took the shape of pine-like fire, and the thick body surrounding it also took its shape, and it became solid flesh, and over it was a thick covering that protected it, and the whole organ was called the heart. And because of the dissolution and consumption of moistures that follow heat, it needed something to supply and nourish it, and to replace what was dissolved from it continually, otherwise its survival would not last. It also needed sensation of what suits it to attract it, and of what opposes it to repel it.
فتكفل له العضو الواحد بما فيه من القوى التي أصلها منه بحاجته الواحدة، وتكفل له العضو الآخر بحاجته الأخرى.
Thus one organ, with the powers it contains whose origin is from it, took care of one of its needs, and the other organ took care of its other need.
وكان المتكفل بالحس هو الدماغو المتكفل بالغذاء هو الكبد؛ واحتاج كل واحد من هذين إليه في أن يمدها بحرارته، وبالقوى المخصوصة بهما التي أصلها منه، فانتسجت بينهما لذلك كله مسالك وطرق: بعضها أوسع من بعض بحسب ما تدعواليه الضرورة، فكانت الشرايين والعروق.
The one responsible for sensation was the brain, and the one responsible for nutrition was the liver; and each of these two needed the other to supply it with its heat and with the powers specific to them whose origin is from it. Therefore, for all that, passages and paths were woven between them: some wider than others according to necessity, and these were the arteries and veins.
وصفه الطبيعيون في خلقة الجنين في الرحم، لم يغادروا من ذلك شيئاً، إلى أن كمل خلقه، وتمت أعضاؤه، وحصل في حد خروج الجنين من البطن، واستعانوا في وصف كمال ذلك بتلك الطينة الكبيرة المتخمرة، وأنها كانت قد تهيأت لان يتخلق منها كل ما يحتاج إليه في خلق الإنسان من الأغشية المجللة لجملة بدنه وغيرها فلما كمل انشقت عنه تلك الأغشية، بشبه المخاض، وتصدع باقي الطينة إذ كان قد لحقه الجفاف.
The natural philosophers described it in the creation of the fetus in the womb, leaving nothing of that out, until its creation was complete and its organs were finished, and it reached the point of the fetus's exit from the belly. They used in describing the completion of that the large fermented clay, and that it had prepared for the formation from it of everything needed in the creation of the human being, such as the membranes covering the whole body and others. So when it was complete, those membranes split from it, similar to labor, and the rest of the clay cracked because dryness had set in.
ثم استغاث ذلك الطفل عند فناء مادة غذائه واشتداد جوعه، فلبته ظبية فقدت طلاها.
Then that infant cried for help when the material of its food ran out and its hunger intensified, and a doe that had lost its fawn answered it.
ثم استوى عبد ما وصفه هؤلاء بعد هذا الموضع، وما وصفه الطائفة الأولى في معنى التربية؛ فقالوا جميعاً: إن الظبية التي تكفلت به وافقت خصباً ومرعى أثيثاً، فكثر لحمها وكثر لبنها، حتى قام بغذاء ذلك الطفل أحسن قيام.
Then it agreed with what these described after this point, and what the first group described regarding upbringing; so they all said: The doe that took care of him found fertility and lush pasture, so her flesh increased and her milk increased, until she provided the best nourishment for that infant.
وكانت معه لا تبعد عنه إلا لضرورة الرعي.
And she was with him, not moving away from him except for the necessity of grazing.
وألف الطفل تلك الظبية حتى كان بحيث إذا هي أبطأت عنه اشتد بكاؤه فطارت إليه.
And the infant became attached to that doe, so that when she delayed from him, his crying intensified, and she would fly to him.
ولم يكن بتلك الجزيرة شيء من السباع العادية، فتربى الطفل ونما واغتذى بلبن تلك الظبية إلى أن تم له حولان، وتدرج في المشي وأثغر فكان يتبع تلك الظبية، وكانت هي ترفق به وترحمه وتحمله إلى مواضع فيها شجر مثمر فكانت تطعمه ما تساقط من ثمراتها الحلوة النضيجة؛ وما كان منها صلب القشر كسرته له بطواحنها؛ ومتى عاد إلى اللبن أروته، ومتى ظمئ إلى الماء أرودته، متى ضحا ظللته؛ ومتى خصر أدفأته.
And there was nothing on that island of ordinary beasts of prey, so the child was raised and grew and was nourished by the milk of that gazelle until two years had passed for him, and he progressed in walking and his teeth came in, and he would follow that gazelle, and she would be gentle with him and have mercy on him and carry him to places where there were fruit-bearing trees, and she would feed him what fell from their sweet ripe fruits; and whatever had a hard skin she would break for him with her molars; and whenever he returned to the milk she would give him drink, and whenever he thirsted for water she would lead him to it, whenever the sun was hot she would shade him; and whenever he was cold she would warm him.
وإذا جن الليل صرفته إلى مكان الأول وجللته بنفسها وبريش كان هناك؛ مما ملئ به التابوت أولاً في وقت وضع الطفل فيه.
And when night fell she would take him to the first place and cover him with herself and with feathers that were there; from what the chest had been filled with at first when the child was placed in it.
وكان في غدوهما ورواحهما قد ألفهما ربرب يسرح ويبيت معهما حيث مبيتهما.
And in their going out in the morning and their returning in the evening, a herd of gazelles had become familiar with them, grazing and spending the night with them wherever they spent the night.
فما زال الطفل مع الظباء على تلك الحال: يحكي نغمتها بصوته حتى لا يكاد يفرق بينهما؛ وكذلك كان يحكي جميع ما يسمعه من أصوات الطير وأنواع سائر الحيوان محاكاة شديدة لقوة انفعاله لما يريده ما كانت محاكاته لأصوات الظباء في الاستصراخ والاستئلاف والاستدعاء والاستدفاع.
So the child continued with the gazelles in that state: he would imitate her tone with his voice so that he could hardly be distinguished between them; and likewise he would imitate all that he heard of the sounds of birds and the various kinds of other animals, with a strong imitation due to the intensity of his emotion for what he wanted, as was his imitation of the gazelles' sounds in calling for help, in seeking familiarity, in calling, and in repelling.
إذ للحيوانات في هذه الأحوال المختلفة أصوات مختلفة فألفته الوحوش وألفها؛ ولم تنكره ولا أنكرها.
Since animals in these different states have different sounds, the wild beasts became familiar with him and he with them; and they did not reject him nor did he reject them.