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« 129, 155, 159, 165, 181, 192, 216, 247, 304, 321. See also contentment riḍā (good pleasure), of God, 8, 26, 29, 44, 100, 106, 178, 207, 210, 221, 272, 273, 274. See also God: good pleasure of riḍwān (satisfaction, of God… »
« He said: God has favoured them by that which He initially granted them,1 and He has guided them to Him with various kinds of proximity (qurb) and intimacy (zulf). His words: [49:7] …God had endeared faith to you and made… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [30:41] Corruption has appeared on land and sea… He said: God, Exalted is He, has made the land a similitude of the bodily members and the sea a simili- tude of the heart. It [the sea, and there… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [26:3] It may be that you kill yourself with grief that they will not become believers. He said: That is, that you would destroy yourself in pursuing what is required for the sake of their guid-… »
« If those who are mindful of God (muttaqūn) had supplicated against the transgressors, (musrifūn), they [the latter] would have perished, both those who came first and those who come last. How- ever God made the mindful o… »
« and then He cast upon them some of His light. Whosoever was touched by that light found guidance and whomsoever it missed went astray.’ Ibn Ḥanbal, al-Musnad (Cairo, 1895), vol. 2, pp. 176 and 197; Tirmidhī, Sunan, ‘Kitā… »
« is referred to when God says: So pray to Your Lord and sacrifice [108:2], that is, grasp your left arm with your right hand in prayer, in self-abasement and in awe before God, Exalted is He. This »
« 219. See also tawḥīd; oneness muwāzana (weighing up), 113. See also muḥāsaba; reckoning; accounting mystery(ies) (sirr pl. asrār), xxxvii, xli, xliii, 41, 120, 195. See also secret(s), inner truth(s) of faith (sirr al-īm… »
« 5 Added on the basis of MS F638, f. 35a only, but the addition of the word bayt here really makes better sense and completes the analogy. 6 Who, as we saw above, is the Owner of hearts. 7 The other additions in the passa… »
« 339 Bibliography Caspar, Robert. A Historical Introduction to Islamic Theology: Muhammad and the Classical Period. Translated by P. Johnstone. Rome, 1998. Chabbi, Jacqueline. ‘Abdāl.’ EIr. Vol. iii, pp. 173–4. Chittick,… »
« ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib. Nahj al-balāgha. See Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn. Alkāʾī, Hibat Allāh b. al-Ḥasan al-Ṭabarī al-. Karāmāt al-awliyāʾ, ed. Aḥmad Saʿd al-Ḥamān.Riyadh, 1991. Anṣārī, Abū Ismāʿīl ʿAbd Allāh al-.… »
« 132 Tafsīr al-Tustarī His words: [22:26] …Purify My House for those who circumambulate it… That is, ‘Purify My House from idols, for those among My servants whose hearts are pure from doubt (shakk), misgivings (rayb) and… »
« in its beak which it cast down and then flew off.7 His words, Exalted is He: [5:67] …God will protect you from people… [Sahl] was asked, ‘What is this protection (ʿiṣma)?’ He replied: God, Exalted is He, promised him [th… »
« witnessing; unveiling; vision al-ghayb (witnessing the unseen), 222 al-Rabb (witnessing the Lord), xxxii, 77 mushtāq pl. mushtāqūn (longing, yearning), 33, 48, 58. See also shawq; longing muṣība (affliction), 318. See al… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [83:1] Woe to the defrauders! He said: They are the hypocrites and those who take on their characteristics, stinting in their prayer. Thus did Salmān1 [al-Fārisī] say, ‘The prayer is the balan… »
« our mother, nor do we deny our father.’ 9 That is, the father of the Arabs. His words, Exalted is He: [17:57] …and they hope for His mercy and fear His chastisement… He said: The outer meaning of His mercy is His Paradis… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [101:1, 2] The Crashing Blow! What is the Crashing Blow? He said: God strikes His enemies a crashing blow through His punishment. [101:3] What will show you what the Crashing Blow is? This is… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [58:10] Secret conversations are [the work of] Satan… He said: A secret conversation (najwā) is what the Enemy casts into the natural self (nafs al-ṭabʿ), just as the Prophet said, ‘There is a… »
« Then he related a story of Jesus : Once he passed by three people whose bodies were emaciated and faces pale. He asked them, ‘What has brought you to this state I see you in?’ They said, ‘The fear (khawf) of our Creato… »
« a while but did not find anything so I became weak. I started to say to myself, ‘What have you done that has resulted in that which you are accustomed to being withheld from you?’ Then I heard a voice from the air (min a… »
« 327. See also subsistence (baqāʾ) maʿa’l-Bāqī (subsistence with the Permanently Subsistent One), xxxvi, 184 dār al- (abode of permanent subsistence), 306 and fanāʾ, lix and n269, 47 n36 al-Bāqī (the Everlasting, the Perm… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [11:23] …and humble themselves before their Lord… That is, their hearts were humbled before their Lord, this being [an indication of] fear (khashiya). Thus humility is its outward [manifestation… »
« are of the view that he is referred to in Sūra 113 of the Qurʾān. Luqmān (d. unknown). A sage-like figure, regarding whom opinion is divided as to his status as a wise man or prophet. A chapter of the Qurʾān bears his na… »
« ish nature (ṭabʿ al-abālisa), that of refusal (ibāʾ) and arrogance (istikbār). [Divine] protection (ʿiṣma) against the animal disposition is through faith (īmān). Safety (salāma) from the satanic disposition is through g… »