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6" ,<br />
( CHAHAR<br />
MAQALA. PHYSIOLOGY<br />
that interspace which lies between the Water and the air, the<br />
vegetable kingdom, was- manifested. Then God, blessed and<br />
exalted is He, created for that substance wherefr^m the plants<br />
wpre made manifest four subservient forces and three faculties.<br />
Of these four subservient forces one is that which draws to itself<br />
, whatever is suitable for its purpose, and this is called " the Force<br />
Attractive "<br />
(Jddhiba). Another retains what the first may have<br />
attracted, and this is called " the Force" Retentive "<br />
(Mdsika).<br />
The third is that w'hich assimilates what has been attracted,<br />
and transmutes it from .its former state until it becomes like unto<br />
itself, and this is called " the Force Assimilative" (Hddima). The<br />
fourth is that which rejects what is not appropriate, and it .is<br />
t<br />
called "the Force Expulsive" (Ddfi'e^. And of its thrte faculties<br />
one is that which increaseth it (i) by diffusing throughout it<br />
nutritious matters with a proportionate and equable diffusion.<br />
The second is mat which accompanies this nutriment until it<br />
reaches the extremities. The third is that which, when the<br />
organism has attained perfection and begins to tend towards<br />
decline, appears and produces ova, in order that, if destruction<br />
overtake the parent in this world, this substitute may take its<br />
place, so that the order of the world may be immune from<br />
injury, and the species may not become extinct. This is called<br />
" the Reproductive Faculty "<br />
(Quwwat-i-Muwallida).<br />
So this Kingdom rose superior to the inorganic world in these<br />
and the far-reaching<br />
several ways which have been mentioned ;<br />
Wisdom of the Creator so ordained that these Kingdoms should<br />
be connected one with another successively and continuously, so<br />
that in the inorganic world the first material, which was clay,<br />
underwent a process of evoluti6n and became higher in organisation<br />
tintil it grew to coral (marjdn, bussad}, which is the ultimate<br />
term of the inorganic world 1 and is connected with the most<br />
primitive stage of plant-life. And the mosj: primitivq.thing in the<br />
vegetable kingdom is the thorn, and the most highly developed<br />
the date-palm and the grape, which resemble th