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« or sets of formulae became associated with a particular initiatory chain (silsila), and these awrād are given to disciples by a master at the time of their initiation. 7 Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-awsaṭ, vol. 1, p. 189. 8 On… »
« physical, death of, 178 purpose of, 48 submission of, in servanthood, lv, 55 transgressions of, 66 book, of deeds. See deed(s): book of Book, People of, 105 n7 Book, the (kitāb), i.e. the Qurʾān, xxvii, xxviii, xxxi, xlv… »
« danger facing the commander Sāriya, who was leading the Muslim army thousands of miles away in Persia: the enemy were about to assault them from behind the mountain, so he cried out, ‘O Sāriya, the mountain, the mountain… »
« chosen for Your love (mawadda)?” He replied, “I make him content with a meagre provision, and I activate him to [prepare for] the momentous and tremendous [event].2 [His hallmark is also that he] eats little and weeps mu… »
« [However,] whoever acts for the sake of this world, …We will give him of it, but in the Here- after he will have no portion (naṣīb), for his ⸢natural⸣ self will be occupied with the enjoyment (tanaʿʿum or naʿīm) of Parad… »
« Then God provided for him the companionship of Shuʿayb and his children. His words, Exalted is He: [28:60] Whatever things you have been given are only the [short-lived] enjoyment of the life of this world and an ornam… »
« cognition of anything other than Him, and they choose none other than Him.6 His words, Exalted is He: [84:19] you will surely journey from stage to stage (ṭabqan ʿan ṭabqin). He said: Its inner meaning is that you will s… »
« Index III: Subjects and Technical Terms 385 61, 71, 78, 82, 91, 109, 113, 135, 193, 216, 229 n2, 241, 314. See also other nafs entries dhihn al- (intuition of the self), 168, 247 ḥubb al- (love of the self), 301 jihād al… »
« to knowledge which is only God’s, 41 Index III: Subjects and Technical Terms 365 of Korah, 148 and n10 one who makes (muddaʿī), 231 to power and strength, xxxiv, 13, 14, 75, 168, 180 to wealth, liv, 161 commanding what i… »
« above, in IT, p. lviii, n. 265. On the levels of islām, īmān and iḥsān, see also Tustarī’s commentary on 14:24. 5 On the Traverse (al-Ṣirāṭ) p. 135, n. 1. 6 A similar passage is cited in Sarrāj, Kitāb al-Lumaʿ, the begin… »
« Shaybān’s relationship with a lion and a wolf. Among other Sufis, Abū al-Ḥasan al-Kharaqānī was reputed to have used a lion as a beast of burden and to have tamed snakes. See ʿAṭṭār, Tadhkirat al-awliyāʾ, pp. 667–8, and… »
« O my dear fellow, don’t you know that when an infant cries he is given a rattle to distract himself with? So just consider what He is doing.9 And he said that he had within his house a room which he called the room for p… »
« 65 He [Sahl] was asked, ‘Who are veracious?’ He replied: They are those who combat their lower selves through the glorification (taṣbīḥ) and venera- tion (taqdīs) [of God]. Furthermore, they are those who keep their bodi… »
« knowledge]. Action is noble, but sincerity in action is nobler still. Sincerity (ikhlāṣ) is noble, but witnessing (mushāhada) in [the state of] sincerity is nobler. Being in conformity (muwāfaqa)7 is noble, but intimacy… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [51:21] and in yourselves too, do you not see? He said: That is, [signs] in their forms; in their being endowed with the finest proportions (taqādīr); in their veins, which run through them like… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [67:12] Assuredly those who fear their Lord in secret… That is, they fear their Lord in their innermost secret (sirr), and they keep their innermost secret pure from other than Him. His words, E… »
« al-qalb (heart’s insight, vision), 19, 133, 205, 212 and n3, 213 al-Baṣīr (the Seeing, ‘Seer’), God as, 236. See also name(s), of God baṣīra pl. baṣāʾir (insight), xlviii, 4, 11, 21, 116, 121. See also baṣar; insight(s)… »
« heaven, fourth/ seventh, 210. See also Paradise heavenly / celestial dominions (malakūt), 92 heedful (rāqib, ḥafῑẓ), 36, 205. See also mindful heedfulness (murāqaba), of God, 14, 160, 194. See also mindfulness heedless (… »
« 62:3 233 53:3 212 56:75–7 5 62:11 233 53:8 212 56:83 219 63:1 234 53:10 33 56:88 219 63:9 234–5 53:11 33, 212 56:89 219 64:2 236 53:12 212 56:90 219 64:11 28 53:13 xxxii, 213 57:3 and n6 57:4 220 64:14 236 xl, 220 64:15… »
« Sahl was asked about God’s words: [2:30] …Whilst we glorify You with praise and sanctify You… It means ‘We purify ourselves for Your sake by saying what You inspired us to say through the favour that You bestowed upon us… »
« ewes wished to take the one from his brother to make up a hundred. David could see the injustice of this, upon which Tafsīr al-Tustarī 50 Joseph from action, though He did not protect him from desire and intent.48 His wo… »
« tradition, listed in ʿAbd al-Raʿūf al-Munāwī and ʿAbd al-Salām al-Suyūṭī, Fayḍ al-qadīr: sharḥ al-Jāmiʿ al-ṣaghīr min aḥādīth al-bashīr al-nadhīr (Cairo, 1938), vol. 5, p. 441, in which it is said to have been the Jews r… »
« who were about forty men.146 They did not have any dwellings in Medina nor [did they belong to] any tribes. These were the circumstances of a group of people whom God, Exalted is He, praised for the high degree of their… »
« 3 Āl ʿImrān 45 He decreed, before creating the creation, all that He would create: Created beings, none of whose affairs are hidden from Him, [nor] Their desires, [nor their] intimate secrets, [nor] that which their hear… »