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« His words, Exalted is He: [4:48] God forgives not that anything should be associated with Him. But He forgives other than that, to whomsoever He wills… He said: If no one has any grievance against him, and his sins are o… »
« because He protects you from falling into the same kind of transgression during what remains of your life. His words, Exalted is He: [60:10] …And do not hold on to the [conjugal] ties of disbelieving women… 1 All MSS (Z5… »
« God to the point that he fears Him even concerning a mere atom’s weight, such that he leaves aside some of the things he considers to be legitimate, for fear of the possibility of its being forbidden. This will act as a… »
« is meant is the evil eye, which is aroused by envy, and indeed Ṭabarī includes in his commentary on this verse a tradi- tion of Qatāda which glosses the words, and from the evil of the envier when he envies, with the wor… »
« But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best. 267 80 ʿAbasa His words: [80:21] then He makes him die and buries him. He said: Its inner meaning is that He causes the pleasures (ḥuẓūẓ) which the lower self derives f… »
« him against his enemy, that is, his self that incites to evil.34 The people of Paradise, when they are in Paradise, will be protected from the planning (tadbīr) that they were accustomed to in the abode of this world. Ye… »
« Sahl said: Truly, certainty (yaqīn) may be compared to mainstays (awtād) for the hearts of the mystics (ʿārifūn), and the souls of the yearning (mushtāqūn), just as the mountains of the world along with Mount Qāf, are th… »
« 6 Perhaps this question and the preceding comment has been inserted here on account of Tustarī’s answer, which is relevant to the subject of being tested (cooked or roasted) by God in this life, and the need to be accept… »
« and their action (ḥaraka).6 This is in their saying to the Messenger at the time of the pledge (bayʿa), ‘We have pledged to you that we will not flee, and we will fight for you.’ There is another possible meaning of th… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [92:1] By the night as it enshrouds, He said: In its inner meaning it refers to the natural self (nafs al-ṭabʿ). [92:2] and [by] the day as it unveils, [It refers to] the spiritual self (nafs al… »
« exegesis of the Qurʾān. He settled in Kufa, where he acted as an administrator during the rule of the caliph ʿUmar and a portion of that of the caliph ʿUthmān, then he travelled to Medina where later died. It was through… »
« ijtihād (striving, toiling), 26, 66 n16. See also jahd; jihād; striving ikhbāt (humility), 115, 134. See also khushūʿ; khuḍūʿ; humility; humble ikhlāṣ (sincerity), xxx, xxxviii, xl, li, lv, lvi, lvii, lix, 22 n61, 49 n42… »
« against the people in general.’ It was [Sahl’s] way and his conduct to be full of gratitude and remember [God] a great deal. He was also constant in observing silence and reflection. He would dispute little and was of a… »
« Throne till the time when he leaves this world.1 In these times, I do not know of anyone not requiring repentance,2 for the Angel of Death will not visit any one of us without his saying [to the angel], ‘Just allow me to… »
« nafs lawwāma (blaming or self-reproaching self), xxxviii, xxxix, xli, 257 and n1 nafs al-maʿrifa (self of gnosis), xxxix, xli, 96 nafs al-muṭmaʾinna (self at peace), xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xli, 96 and n9. See also ṭumaʾnīna… »
« it for a land of obedient servants. Indeed the Prophet said: ‘He who flees for [the sake of] his religion at a time when the community is in a state of corruption, will receive the reward of seventy martyrs in the caus… »
« shown me a [true] believer, a [true] believer!’16 Ibn Sālim said: Once I was at Sahl’s house. After the ʿAṣr prayer two men came to him and started to converse with him. I said to myself. ‘They have stayed long with him… »
« commit ourselves after you have gone.’ He said: ‘O Saʿd! Remember God, Exalted is He, when you have a concern that worries you, when you are making a judgement and when you are about to make an oath.’6 But God, Exalted i… »
« Sahl was asked, ‘What is the hardest thing for the lower self (nafs)?’ He replied, ‘Sincerity (ikhlāṣ).’ He was asked why this was so, and he said, ‘It is because the lower self cannot have a share in it.’ He was asked,… »
« attainment of the eye of certainty (ʿayn al-yaqīn). Both passages use different words derived from the root w-ṣ-l (here wuṣūl, in the previous passage ittiṣāl), indicating an indefinable connection and closeness to God,… »
« Speech, of God, xxvii, xxxi, 106, 118, 121, 142 n3, 189 Spirit [Holy] / Trustworthy (Rūḥ / Rūḥ Amīn), 3, 4 and n19, 23 and n63, 247, 297 of God’s command, 176 spirit (rūḥ pl. arwāḥ), xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xli, xlii, lvii,… »
« disciple of Tustarī. He is one of the transmitters of Tustarī’s Tafsīr, and and is cited as a source of information and anecdotes about him by Sulamī and Qushayrī. He is also said to have transmitted ḥadīths. He assisted… »
« real, is gained through dying, 181 remembrance as source of, xli, lviii, 143, 152, 171, 173–4, 225 of self, xxxix, xli, lvii, 171, 172 n10, 284 life, way of, livelihood (ʿaysh). See also life (ḥayāt); subsistence, susten… »
« the principle that the rich should treat the poor with consideration and kindness, because they will be answerable to the poor on the Day of Resurrection. »