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« His words: [4:36] ...to the neighbour who is close, and the neighbour who is a stranger, to the companion at your side, and to the wayfarer…4 He said: As for the outward meaning: the neighbour who is a stranger is the on… »
« His words: [30:40] …then makes you die. That is, He will destroy you. He said: Indeed, God, Exalted is He, has created good and evil and established the command and pro- hibition. He has made us worship Him through the g… »
« 67, 110. See also jahd; jihād; mujtahid; striving muʿjiza (miracle, of prophets), xx n52, 176 n8. See also karāma mujtahid ([one who is] striving, spiritually), 145. See also jahd; jihād; striving mukābada (endurance, st… »
« His words: [48:4] It was He who sent down the spirit of peace (sakīna) into the hearts of the believers… That is, profound peace (ṭumaʾnīna). For God first of all discloses to His servants gnosis (maʿārif), then forms of… »
« [78:33] and buxom maidens… He said: Young and attractive concubines, atrāb means of equal age. His words, Exalted is He: [78:34] and a brimming cup. That is, continuously full. Once, a wise man (ḥakīm) met another wise m… »
« 75 they would do that [which is mentioned in the verse].20 His forsaking (khidhlān) them is because of what they were directed to by their natural selves (anfusuhum al-ṭabīʿiyya), namely, being active regarding His prohi… »
« as He says in Sūrat Ṣād, and gave him wisdom’ [38:20], meaning prophethood (nubuwwa). And God said [concerning] David , And God gave him kingship and wisdom [2:251] meaning prophethood, along with the Book.134 Qatāda sa… »
« were discussing the ‘goodly tree’, and he said: ‘That is the believer whose root is in the earth and whose branch is in heaven.’ This means that his works are raised to the heavens and accepted. This is the similitude… »
« they walk therein, and when darkness falls around them, they stand still [2:20]. His words, Exalted is He: [71:25] …they were drowned and then made to enter the Fire… He said: They were drowned in bewilderment (ḥayra) [b… »
« be sound for you, either in its root or in its branches, save in accordance with My pre-existing will (mashīʾatī al-ṣābiqa) [which prevails] over you. But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best. 270 »
« 20 lit. ‘he finds or experiences that which carries him (yaḥmiluhu) through those acts’. Interestingly, Maybudī equates the position of murīd with ‘bearing’ (mutaḥammil), whereas he describes the state of the murād as ‘b… »
« know to whom we should offer our condolences due to the grief of all the people [present].’ His words, Exalted is He: [28:78] [He said] ‘In fact I have been given it [this wealth] because of knowledge I possess…’ He said… »
« 1 MS Z515 carries the former title, while MSS F638 and F3488 carry the latter title. 2 See the commentary on the Basmala [1:1], above. 3 According to cosmological legend, the earth (or as here, earths, arḍūn) rest on the… »
« it, but in the Hereafter he will have no portion (nasīb). After this, there is a slight variation between the MSS in terms of wording, though not a significant one in terms of meaning: Z515, f. 97a and F3488, f. 273b hav… »
« Marī, or according to one tradition, as Ḥabīb b. Zayd b. ʿĀṣim. In the Tafsīr al-Jalālayn he is said to have been a carpenter. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 164 loss of the spirit, then he should take pains to perform well [the acts… »
« 27:65 145–6 32:17 156 24:26 137 27:73 146 32:26 71 24:30 137 27:88 146 33:4 xlvi, 138 n10, 24:31 137–8 28:1 12 157 24:35 138, 213 n6 28:7 147 33:6 157 and n3 24:37 138 28:8 147 33:7 xxxv, 76 24:40 4, 29, 48 28:10 147 33:… »
« Cambridge, 2005. Ḥāfiẓ, Shams al-Dīn Muḥammad. Dīwān-i Ḥāfiẓ, ed. Parvīz Nātil Khānlarī. Tehran, 1980–1. Ḥājjī Khalīfa. Kashf al-ẓunūn, ed. C. Flügel. 4 vols. Leipzig, 1835. Harawī, ʿAlī al-. Kitāb al-Ishārāt ilā maʿrifa… »
« 39:68 173–4 43:69, 70 184 48:9 197 39:69 174 43:71 184–5 48:10 197 39:74 174 43:72 185 48:11 197, 234 40:1, 2 175 43:87 98 48:25 197–9 and n8 40:3 175 44:3 186 48:26 198 40:4 6, 175 and n4 44:8 186 48:27 198 40:5 175 44:… »
« converted to Islam during the caliphate of ʿUmar. He is the earliest authority for Haggadic and Talmudic traditions in Islam. Kahmas b. Ḥasan al-Tamīmī (d. 148/766). An ascetic and scholar of ḥadīth from Basra, who is sa… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [7:99] Do they feel secure from God’s plotting?... He [Sahl] said: The plotting (makr) belongs to His design (tadbīr) within His prior knowledge, and it pertains to His omnipotence,16 hence no o… »
« charismatic gifts (karāmāt).8 However, He has made the eyes of the damned blind to seeing them, and has turned their hearts away from Him. Whoever denies the charismatic gifts of the friends [of God] denies the omnipoten… »
« any cause to rejoice. Truly, the portion due to God, Mighty and Majestic is He, from a believer’s wealth does not leave him owning a [piece of] silver or gold. Truly, commanding right and forbidding wrong does not leave… »
« he came to three people who were even more emaciated, whose faces were like full moons. He asked, ‘What has brought you to this state I see you in?’ They replied: ‘Love (ḥubb).’ He said, ‘You are the people of proximity… »
« was a witness to Himself by Himself before the existence of creation. ʿAbd al-Wāḥid15 said: I was with Ayyūb al-Sakhtiyānī when he saw a porter carrying wood. I asked him, ‘Do you have a Lord?’ to which he replied, ‘Is t… »