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« With this elliptical comment Tustarī is indicating that all that is required for sincerity is to devote our religion purely to God, which is the only worthy response to the divine command. What is implied by the [true] r… »
« breast (ṣadr), xxxviii, xliii, 3 n10, 133 Tafsīr al-Tustarī 364 of Adam, 17 evil whispering and, 17, 249, 320 constricted (4:90), 57 constricted at death, 258 deriving strength from heart, 2–3 Enemy’s whispering in, 320… »
« ʿahd (pledge, pact), 44, 249, 301. See also bayʿa; mῑthāq; pact Ahl al-Ṣuffa (People of the Bench), 37 and n146, 77, 324 aḥruf sing. ḥarf (aspects or ways of reading), 41 and n2. See also Qurʾān aid (maʿūna), from God, 1… »
« after him…’ The ḥadīth is listed in Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Zakāt’, and ‘Kitāb al-ʿIlm’. 2 MS F638, f. 63b only has qūmū instead of mūtū, which latter would translate as ‘die at His door’. 3 i.e he will attain detachmen… »
« 1 His saying: [41:1] Ḥā Mīm That is, He decreed [everything] upon the Preserved Tablet (lawḥ maḥfūẓ), in which was inscribed all that exists [and will come into existence] (kāʾin). His words: [41:4] [bearing] good tiding… »
« dragging them ever lower, forever after, as long as they reside there. His words, Mighty and Majestic is He: [69:44] And had he fabricated any lies against Us,11 He said: That is, if he said that which he had no permissi… »
« Sahl was asked about the calling to account (muḥāsaba) and the weighing up (muwāzana). He said: The calling to account is of two kinds: the accounting that concerns those matters which are between the servant and his Lor… »
« the natural self and spiritual self in the life of this world see below the commentary on 57:6 and 85:3. See also Böwering, Mystical Vision, p. 249. 9 The published edition has: ‘Whoever acts for the sake of the world’ (… »
« remained with him all his life (according to the sources for either thirty or sixty years), and whom Tustarī is known to have addressed in Persian as his ‘friend’ (dūst). A native of Basra, he remained there with his son… »
« 26–7. 4 The implication is that the secrets are sins which are to be concealed from others. See above the commentary on 83:1. The tradition is listed in Bayhaqī, Shuʿab al-īmān, vol. 5, p. 459. 278 Tafsīr al-Tustarī Then… »
« to Ibn ʿAbbās , children (banūn) refers to the children of the children, and grandchildren (ḥafada) refers to those among them who help their father in his work. According to Ḍaḥḥāk, ḥafada are the servants devoted to G… »
« [112:4] nor is there anyone equal to Him.’ It means: no one is comparable to Him — [taking the word kufūʾ] as having been brought forward [in the verse]. 1 See above, p. 49, n. 42 on the meaning of ikhlāṣ. See also IT,… »
« peal to the person’s concern for what others will think of him, i.e. his reputation, and Tustarī shows in his comment on this situation that the evil is not actually the giving up of fasting or seclusion, but the concern… »
« His words: [42:23] …If anyone acquires a good deed, We shall enhance for him his goodness… He said: It refers to the cognisance (maʿrifa) [that a person should have] of his state relating to an act, before entering upon… »
« ing to a saying related from Ḥasan [al-Baṣrī], someone mentioned in his presence, ‘There is a man who will leave the Hellfire after a thousand years’, to which Ḥasan responded, ‘If only I were him.’8 It was related from… »
« what is not their concern, also mentioned above. This tradition is cited in Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 9, p. 52, and in Bayhaqī, Shuʿab al-īmān, vol. 5, p. 312, and vol. 6, p. 87, with the difference that in the Ḥ… »
« His words: [40:7] …So forgive those who repent… He said: They are those who repent from heedlessness, find intimacy in remembrance and follow the Sunna of Muṣṭafā .5 His words: [40:10] Indeed [to] those who disbelieve i… »
« world until he had been brought a sprig from the fragrant herb (rayḥān) of Paradise,4 and given a whiff of it, then he would die, his spirit flowing into it [Paradise].’ [56:90] and if he be of those of the right [hand],… »
« also Miʿrāj Enemy / Adversary (Satan), 16 and n24, 71, 134, 210, 249, 257, 277, 300, 320 enemy, or adversary (ʿuduww), 15, 49, 123, 236. See also Enemy; enmity evil-inciting self as, 18 greatest, is lower self, 16 n23 re… »
« sentence, so the two verses read as follows: And had he not been one of those who glorify God, he would have tarried in its belly until the Day when they are raised [37:143–4]. 167 38 Ṣād His words, Exalted is He: [38:… »
« Likewise the heart has [within it] another heart, which is the position from which the servant stands before his Master without being agitated or busied by anything, but in a state of tranquil repose in Him (sākin ilayhi… »
« eventually he was persuaded to do so and ascended the mountain to pray against the Israelites. However, as he prayed against them his tongue was turned around so that his prayer was directed against his own people, and a… »
« singled them out by depositing something (maʿnā) within them; and His knowledge of them prior to their creation. So [in this verse], He reminded them of that bounty He had granted to them, and summoned them by this antec… »
« and is therefore to be reflected on. It tells how a group of believing young men take refuge in a cave. There they pray for God’s mercy and to be granted [guidance to] the correct course of conduct (rashad) from Him in t… »