Masha'allah
Definition
Masha'allah was an early medieval astrologer and astronomer represented through the collected Works of Sahl and Masha'allah.
Life and context
The collection places his work in the Arabic and Persian transmission that joined astronomical models, world astrology, questions, and electional practice.
Work and ideas
The reviewed collection supports source-specific context for ingress roots, questions, reception, perfection, phasis, and related timing or interference doctrines.
Scope and limitations
Because the registered source is shared with Sahl ibn Bishr, individual claims remain attributed at the passage level rather than assigned by proximity.
Source texts
Documented rules
3 documented rules
Collection of light means two principals connect to a common, slower recipient; Sahl interprets the collector as a possible judge, arbitrator or helper. The collector's required place or witnessing of the matter's place, and the Ascendant/matter rulers, remain unestablished. Lilly's reception branch is separate.
Prohibition means an intervening connection prevents the principals' intended perfection; its general meaning is interruption of the attempted union. The retained 6-degree detector has narrower coverage than Lilly's p.111 example. Its subtype and constant-speed ordering are normalized estimates; a matter's failure is not established.
Translation of light means an intermediary carries a departing planet's nature to another connection, giving the general meaning of mediation between the principals. Source-specific planetary orbs and the roles of parties are not established by the generic contact test.