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« God, Exalted is He, has said, And if you retaliate, retaliate with the like of what you have been made to suffer; and yet if you endure patiently, verily that is better for the patient [16:126], [with these words He has… »
« for your deeds, and not one of your deeds will be hidden from Him. That is all known [to Him], calculated for you in His prior knowledge. And He will ask [the servant] about all of it, saying to him, ‘Did you not know ab… »
« path: straight ṣirāṭ (Traverse), 135 and n1, 221, 274, 283 and n8, 286. See also Resurrection sirr pl. asrār, sarῑra pl. sarāʾir (secret, mystery, innermost secret), xv, xxii n72, xxxvi, xxxvii, xli and nn158 and 164, xl… »
« righteousness causes expansion in, 152 Byzantine language, 115 C calf of each person, 75 worshipped by Children of Israel, 21 n56 cause(s), [secondary], means (sabab pl. asbāb), 29, 60, 98, 101, 145, 200, 237, 317 from G… »
« replied, ‘Yes I know, my dear friend! Indeed I have become weak.’ So I asked, ‘What is the condition [that denotes] a strong state (quwwat al-ḥāl)?’ He replied, ‘There is no influx [from above] (wārid) that comes over hi… »
« The veils will not be lifted from the servant until he buries his lower self in the earth. He was asked, ‘How does he bury his lower self?’ He replied: He slays it through the Sunna, and also buries it by adhering to the… »
« wealth, 39 letter(s) (ḥarf pl. ḥurūf ), xxvi, 5, 12, 13 n8 cryptic, 9 disconnected, in the Qurʾān, xxxi, 12 and n2, 71 and n2, 175 and n2, 242 science and symbolism of, xviii and n32 Tustarῑ’s treatise on. See Risālat al… »
« fulness of Him (taqwā). A Section on Faith Certainty (yaqīn) is the heart of faith, patience (ṣabr) is the backbone of faith, and sincerity (ikhlāṣ) is the perfection of faith, for through sincerity the servant reaches t… »
« as the heart is accepting of God’s command, the servant will not be harmed by his outward reaction.3 Just consider the instance of the Prophet’s weeping . Note that when he wept on the death of his son Ibrāhīm, he wep… »
« 8 i.e. the words of 69:19: Here, read my book! Tafsīr al-Tustarī 246 his book will be thrust into his left hand, and there is no grief, no humiliation, and no distress that ever befell a man severer than that which will… »
« 1 The MSS (Z515, f. 135b, F638, f. 67a and F3488, f. 318b) all have dhikr li’Llāh as opposed to dhikr ilā’Llāh. Again we have here the idea of the natural self and the spiritual self coming together in the remembrance of… »
« sionate One, [honoured] on mounts (wafdan). That is, mounted (rukbānan). The mindful of God (muttaqūn) are those who are wary of all besides God, Mighty and Majestic is He. And he said: Nothing will be complete for the s… »
« experiential knowledge of God. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 40 the loving mystics (ʿārifūn muḥibbūn), since love is the inclination (ʿaṭf) for the purest reality (khāliṣat al-ḥaqq), which God, Exalted is He, [produces] in them. He… »
« simply means all of you. M. Abdel Haleem, trans. Qur’an (New York, 2008). 8 The Muslims are described as a midmost nation (umma wasaṭa) in 2:143. According to Ṭabarī, being the ‘middle’ or ‘midmost’ means their being on… »
« make. 3 Ibn Māja, Sunan, ‘Bāb al-Ḥikma’; Ibn Ḥanbal, al-Musnad, vol. 5, p. 412. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 140 Everything will befriend the person whose prayer is good. Such a person will be stirred during sleep at the prayer tim… »
« took it [the knot] out of the well. They brought it to the Prophet , upon which he started to untie the knot reciting the verses the while, so that the Messenger was cured without delay after having completed the two… »
« published edition. On musākina see above Tustarī’s commentary on 2:30 and 273, and p. 16, n. 26. 8 See the commentary on 2:30 above. 9 Translating al-ārāʾ according to all three MSS: Z515, f. 97b, F638, f. 45b and F3488,… »
« It means perfect and complete (tāmma), as in His saying, We gave him [power of] judgement (ḥikma) and knowledge [21:74],137 for it [wisdom] at that time was ⸢perfect and complete⸣138 such that it reached those who were w… »
« 2 In other words the correct behaviour for the believer is not to burden others with displaying his poverty to the world at large, just as he should not burden his heart with concerns for his provision, since he should t… »
« Tafsīr al-Tustarī 46 That is, at the beginning (awwal) of the day. His words: [3:73] And He is All-Embracing, All-Knowing. This means, He gives in abundance (kathīr al-ʿiṭāʾ). He is able, through His pre-eternal omnipote… »
« [Sahl] was asked about His words: [2:281] And fear the Day wherein you shall be returned to God. He replied: This was the last verse to have been revealed, and with it God, Exalted is He, brought the Qurʾān to a close. T… »
« that came to be called the Sālimiyya. Abū Ṭālib al-Makkī frequented this circle, referring to Aḥmad b. Sālim as ‘our shaykh’, and Makkī’s Qūt al-qulūb played a key role in the propagation of a great number of Tustarī’s s… »
« ‘Tell me what they are.’ [Abū Ḥamza continued], ‘The intoxication of drink, the intoxication of youth, the intoxication of wealth and the intoxication of authority.’ Sahl replied, ‘There are two kinds of intoxication whi… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [60:1] O you who believe, do not take My enemy and your enemy as friends… He said: God, Exalted is He, has warned the believers not to take as friends other than those whom God and His Messenger… »