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« orders things for them, even before they and their acts are brought into existence. He deals with them according to His pre-eternal knowledge of them, as He wills and for whatever purpose He wills, wishes, rules, and dec… »

« in keeping with that which Tustarī advocated in his commentary on 2:30 above. The published edition, however, has: ḥarakatahu fi mawt nafsihi, that is: his action (lit. motion) is from the death of his lower self. »

« 3 The context is that God is informing the believers that He has yet to know from them which of them has gone through the struggle and not taken any intimate friend besides Him, the Messenger and the believers. 4 Accordi… »

« omnipotence (qudra), xxiii n73, xxxiv, xliv, xlvii n204, lv, 10 n4, 46, 50, 56, 74 and n16, 76 n26, 79, 90, 102, 150, 175, 176, 190, 204, 208, 220, 281 power (ḥawl), 204 and strength (ḥawl wa quwwa), 13, 114, 190, 197, 2… »

« martyr(s) shuḥḥ (avarice), 227, 267 shukr (gratitude), xxxiii, xxxix, lv n245, lvii, 10, 51, 73, 84, 102 and n3, 136, 143, 151, 170, 198. See also gratitude iqāmat al- (upholding a state of gratitude), 268 ṣiddīq pl. ṣid… »

« from which direction they will be seized, or in which hand their book will be given to them, the right or the left. 8 Ḥasan al-Baṣrī was known for his austerity and fear of God. 9 On the divine ruse see above Tustarī’s c… »

« 22, 33 n117, 50, 98, 131, 144, 173, 177, 233, 234 n4, 238 n4, 248, 300 n5, 314 of Prophet, 282–3 nature, [basic], natural disposition, propensity, instinct (ṭabʿ), xxxviii, xxxix, xl, xli, lix, 16, 17, 55 n8, 85, 96, 127… »

« gnosis (fi’l-maʿrifa).1 His words: [50:1] …By the glorious Qurʾān. He said: This means that it is honoured above all other speech. His words: [50:8] As an insight and a reminder for every penitent servant. He said: This… »

« protection, benevolence and My watching over you.’ Then he [Sahl] said: The intellects (ʿuqūl) of believers end up journeying to the Throne, where they are preserved and filled with the finest subtleties (ẓarāʾif) of His… »

« [2:1] Alif Lām Mīm Sahl said: Alif Lām Mīm is a name of God, Mighty and Majestic is He, and within it are meanings and attributes that people of understanding (fahm) know, not to mention the many meanings that it holds f… »

« we may know that you have spoken to us truthfully [5:113]. Thus they made it known that their knowledge of his [Jesus’] truthfulness, after they had been reassured by witnessing the feast, was to be the starting point of… »

« 77. See also universal knowledge of, 128 as opposed to elite, 80 ghaḍab (anger, wrath), 242. See also sakhṭ; attributes, of God of God, 100 ghāfil pl. ghāfilūn (the heedless), xliii, 48, 108, 208 ghafla (heedlessness), x… »

« 94b and F3488, f. 270b have bi-tawḥīd sayyidihim which might be translated as ‘they shine or are radiant due to [their knowledge] of the unity of their Master’. »

« Verily the lovers are preoccupied with their Master, Like the young men of the Cave, they know not how long they tarried!5  5 On the Companions of the Cave, see the commentary on Sūra 18 above. 308 »

« liii, 25, 28, 98, 304 way to, 254 religion (dīn / diyāna), xviii, xxxvi, l, liii, lvi, lvii, 22, 23, 34, 36, 46 n33, 53 and n1, 69, 71, 83, 94, 115, 154, 163, 171, 173 n18, 181, 219 n6, 251, 313, 314 of Abraham, 66 backb… »

« His words, Exalted is He: [56:13] a multitude from the former [generations],3 He said: That is, a group of those of old (awwalūn), and they are the people of gnosis (maʿrifa) [from the past]. [56:40] and a few from later… »

« by My might and majesty, there is no servant who gives preference to his own desire over My desire, without My increasing his worries, keeping him at a distance from what he has lost, removing richness from his heart and… »

« ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb (d. 23/644). One of the closest Companions of the Prophet and the successor to Abū Bakr as caliph. He is credited with some of the largest expansions of Muslim rule and the development of its accompan… »

« 221 n4, 225, 249, 267, 268. See also iḥsān; islām, both entries; faith asbāb al- (means of faith), 200 ḥaqāʾiq al- (realities of faith), xlvii n204, 194 ḥaqīqat al- (true faith), lii, 84 bi’Llāh (faith in, or through God… »

« He said: Peace from God attaches itself to the people of the Qurʾān in this life according to His saying, peace be on His servants; while peace [for them] in the next life [is indicated by] His saying ‘Peace!’ the word f… »

« He, seeing (shāhid) the attributes [of God] that were being manifested [to him], which required firmness from him in that place (maḥall). [53:18] Verily he saw some of the greatest signs of his Lord. That is, those of Hi… »

« benefit or detriment.18 It is only with regard to knowledge19 that worshippers and renunciants (zuhhād) fall into errors, not because of their striving, for [regarding the latter] they do not possess a state in which the… »

« He replied: That is to say, this was a community that passed away in accordance with God’s prior knowl- edge concerning them. [2:143] …a community of the middle [way] (wasaṭan)… That is, they are just. In this way, a bel… »

« world while you persist in falling short [in good works]; nor should you rely upon My leniency towards you in the matter of [not] hastening your punishment, in that same [false] sense of security, and in your delusion (i… »