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« he shall be cast into Hell.’ Trans. Winter, p. 200. 6 i.e. worldly people. 7 i.e. others whose concern is with the Hereafter. 8 i.e. whether they are good or bad. Or it could mean he rules over, or is in command of his a… »

« 15 A parasang (Ar. farsakh, Pers. farsang) is an old Iranian measurement of distance equivalent to the league, that is, probably the distance that infantrymen can walk in one hour, so between 3 and 5 miles. Thus, when ʿA… »

« their elicitation of inner meanings from the Qurʾānic verses. See, for example, the chapters on mustanbaṭāt in Sarrāj, Kitāb al-Lumaʿ, pp. 105ff, and in Abū Saʿd Khargūshī’s Tahdhīb al-asrār, MS Ahlwardt 2819, fols. 2818… »

« His words, Mighty and Majestic is He: [7:1] Alif Lām Mīm Ṣād [Sahl said]: This means, ‘I am God, I divide up (afṣilu)1 my servants with truth.’ From these letters is produced the name of God, Exalted is He: al-Ṣamad (the… »

« if they see every sign do not believe in it; and if they see the way of rectitude, do not adopt it as a way, but if they see the way of error, adopt it as a way. That is because they have denied Our signs and were heedle… »

« See also taʿabbud; worship ahl al- (people who perform acts of worship), 122 ikhlāṣ al-, li’Llāh (worshipping purely for God), lvii, 298 ʿibāra (outward expression), xvii, xxviii, xlv, 33. See also ishāra; allusion Iblīs… »

« His words, Exalted is He: [108:1] We have assuredly given you Abundance [al-Kawthar]. He said: When al-Qāsim died in Mecca and Ibrāhīm in Medina, the Quraysh said that Muḥammad  had become heirless.1 He was angered by t… »

« Once a man asked Sahl, ‘I have wealth and strength and I want to perform jihād. What do you command me to do?’ Sahl answered: Wealth is knowledge (ʿilm), strength is intention (nīya) and jihād is the struggle with the lo… »

« Sheba Press, 2006. Hamza, Feras and Sajjad Rizvi, eds. An Anthology of Qurʾanic Commentaries. Oxford, 2009. Heinen, Anton M. Islamic Cosmology. A Study of as-Suyūṭī’s al-Hayʾa as-samīya fī’l-hayʾa as-sunniya. Beirut and… »

« His words, Exalted is He: [57:20] Know that the life of this world is merely play and diversion… He said: The world (dunyā) is a sleeping soul (nafs nāʾima), and the Hereafter is a soul awake (nafs yaqẓāna). It was asked… »

« provision Qūt al-qulūb (Nourishment of Hearts), xi, xxiii quṭb (pole, axis), spiritual, 89 n5, 90 quwwa (strength, power), xxxvii, 117, 126, 163, 204, 213, 242 of God, 126 ḥawl wa. See ḥawl: wa quwwa al-ḥāl (of state), 2… »

« Islam and the father of the famed warrior and Companion, Khālid b. al-Walīd. Wuhayb b. al-Ward al-Makkī (d. ca 153/770–1). A Follower and scholar of ḥadīth who led a life of abstinence and worship. He is said to have tau… »

« His words, Exalted is He: [29:1, 2] Alif Lām Mīm  Do people suppose they will be left to say, ‘We believe,’ without being put to the test? He said: That is, without their being beset by affliction (balāʾ). Truly afflict… »

« ḥashsh to mean a garden or a remote, forgotten part of the garden, then perhaps Tustarī’s meaning is that hearts are made for God, and they either reach their potential station and roam about the Throne, or they remain a… »

« 70:22 248 77:6 261 84:9 274 Tafsīr al-Tustarī 352 70:27 248 77:15 261 84:19 274–5 Index I: Qurʾānic Citations 353 Sura: Verse Page Sura: Verse Page Sura: Verse Page 85:3 276 90:10 285 96:14 296 85:14 276 90:11 286 96:17… »

« et al., eds., With Reverence for the Word, pp. 422–36. Williams, W. ‘Aspects of the Creed of Aḥmad ibn Ḥanbal: A Study of Anthropomorphism in Early Islamic Discourse.’ IJMES 36 (2002), pp. 441–63. Winter, Timothy J., ed.… »

« you will stand up with them. Indeed, I see you, Aʿraj, standing with the people of every kind of sin.’ But God, Glorfied and Exalted is He, knows best. 1 On this event see Lings, Muḥammad, p. 68. 2 The Kufan Qurʾān recit… »

« to which it [the lower self] is summoning him, and for which it has no excuse.44 Know that human beings will vary in rank on the Day of Resurrection according to the measure of the light of certainty that they possess. T… »

« [55:19] He has loosed the two seas, and they meet.2 He said: One of these seas is the heart, which contains a variety of gems: the gem of faith, the gem of gnosis (maʿrifa), the gem of realising God’s oneness, the gem of… »

« 375 iḍṭirāb (disturbance, perturbation), 128. See also ḥarakāt; wārid ifḍāl (giving bounty, being gracious), 148. See also faḍl (divine favour); niʿma; grace / graciousness iflās (insolvency), 317 and n2 iftikhār (taking… »

« friend(s) walī (protector, patron, guardian), God as, 2 n5, 3 n14, 7 n29, 10, 43. See also tawallī; wilāya (God’s patronage) walīja (intimate friend), 83 and n4. See also walī (friend); friend(s) waqār (dignified bearing… »

« His words: [29:45] …Truly prayer guards against lewd acts and indecency… This verse refers to the adornment (tazyīn) that [is derived from] shunning all lewd acts and indecency, and this [is attained] through one thing,… »

« self [is deriving] from this world, being neither scrupulous (wariʿ) nor mindful of God (taqī)? Hence, he pursues his own will (murād), and does not take the path of emulation (iqtidāʾ),6 but prefers the lusts of this wo… »

« that which God made incumbent upon them, and [refraining] from that which He forbade them. Truly, [the value of] the deeds of all servants on the Day of Resurrection will wholly depend upon their aims (maqāṣid).3 Rabīʿ u… »