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« hunger; renunciation; zuhd those devoted to (ṣawwām), 245 fatḥ (victory, opening, judgement), 81, 196 n1 al-Fātiḥa (Surat al-Fātiḥa), li and n226, 8 n36, 10, 33 and n113, 45. See also Qurʾān fatwā (legal ruling), 22, 152… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [93:1] By the forenoon, He said: In its inner meaning it is the spiritual self (nafs al-rūḥ). [93:2] and [by] the night when it is still, This means the natural self (nafs al-ṭabʿ) when it finds… »
« xlii, xliv, xlv, xlvi, xlvii n202, lviii, 1, 2, 4, 7, 12 n1, 37 n143, 48, 54, 79, 97, 98, 105, 107, 113, 116, 142, 151, 152, 161, 173, 178 n9, 180, 182, 187, 200, 201, 204, 207, 210, 214, 216, 220, 247, 248, 253, 257, 26… »
« He was asked, ‘How can we uphold this and act upon it?’ He replied: There are four essentials [prerequisites]: he should not tire himself with those things which will only turn to dust,9 neither should he desire them. Fu… »
« of the Prophet and was greatly praised by him although they never met. Tradition relates that such was Uways’ love for the Prophet that when he heard that he had lost a tooth in the Battle of Uḥud, he pulled out one of h… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [53:1] By the star when it sets, That is, [by] Muḥammad when he returned from the heavens.1 His words, Exalted is He: [53:2] your companion has neither gone astray nor has he erred, He said: T… »
« That is, from a spring of pus whose heat has reached its extreme, which He also called ḥamīm ʾān [55:44], meaning that it has reached its ultimate degree of heat. His words, Exalted is He: [88:8] Other faces on that day… »
« 6 Added on the basis of MSS: Z515, f. 136a and F638, f. 67a. 7 See above the commentary on 7:172 regarding the presence of the spiritual self at the Covenant of Alast, from which the natural self was absent. See also IT,… »
« earth, [His] friends (awliyāʾ). His forces in heaven are hearts (qulūb), and on the earth, souls (nufūs). Whatever God empowers (sallaṭa) over you, [may be counted as being] among His forces. If He empowers your lower se… »
« forgiven for all his previous sins.’ 6 Ibn Māja, Sunan (Beirut, 1995), ‘Al-Adab: Bāb thawāb al-Qurʾān’; Abū Dāwūd al-Sijistānī, Sunan (Beirut, 1988), ‘Kitāb al-Ṣalāt’; Tirmidhī, Sunan, ‘Kitāb Tafsīr al-Qurʾān’. 7 Āmīn… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [51:15] Truly those who are mindful of God will be amid gardens and springs. He said: He who is mindful of God (muttaqī) [inhabits] in this world gardens of [God’s] good pleasure (riḍā), and swi… »
« He [Sahl] said: Every possessor of knowledge (ʿālim) who has been given knowledge of evil but does not avoid it is not a [true] possessor of knowledge. Similarly, whoever has been given knowledge of the acts of obedience… »
« b-w, and according to Muslim doctrine there can be no prophet after Muḥammad, he being the Seal of Prophets and prophethood (Khatm al-Anbiyāʾ). Nonetheless, Tustarī appears to have chosen this word in order to maintain t… »
« Tafsīr al-Tustarī 398 n1, 286, 288 and n3, 289, 291, 294, 314, 316, 320 n3. Passim in translated passages of Qurʾān speaking, 68 desisting from, during prayer, 35 about God, 72 Sahl, with God, 104 speech (kalām, bayān),… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [55:56] In them are maidens of restrained glances… He said: That is, they lower their gaze to all except their husbands. Thus whoever restrains his glances in this world from that which is forbi… »
« it will be turned on its side and slaughtered. Thereupon God, Exalted is He, will [re]make it in the form of a horse which will be set free to graze in Paradise. Whoever among the inhabitants of Paradise sees it will enj… »
« goodly loan [for which He asks] is the witnessing of Him (mushāhadat), just as the Prophet said: ‘Worship God as if you see Him…’4 The following saying is narrated from Abū Ḥāzim: ‘Verily, [in this world] there is litt… »
« ṭarīqa (path, way), spiritual, 90, 178, 201. See also path: spiritual tark (leaving, being left, abandoned), 18, 50. See also khidhlān; abandonment tark (renunciation, leaving off, abandoning), 67, 91. See also renunciat… »
« for verily he sees with the light of God.’ Then he recited, ‘Indeed in that there are signs for those who take note.’5 His meaning was those who can see into (mutafarrisūn) the secrets (sarāʾir), and an example of this i… »
« God and His Messenger, even were they to be their fathers… He [Sahl] said: No person whose faith is sound enjoys the company of the innovator (mubtadiʿ), nor does he comply with him, eat with him, drink with him or keep… »
« corruption? [10:91] [2:3] …And spend out of what We have provided them: Sahl said: Truly God, Exalted is He, has described in this way those whom He has moulded with a certain nature, who are connected to Him by a certai… »
« enlightened by a divine flame and taught the entire Torah by God. Once it was confirmed that what he had received was indeed the Torah, people started to revere him as the son of God. We can see in Tustarī’s comment abov… »
« with the MSS. 4 This is part of God’s command to Moses that he should lead the Children of Israel to escape Egypt by crossing the Red Sea (vv. 23–32). 187 »
« 37 ʿUmar b. Wāṣil said: ‘His words, Exalted is He, He grants wisdom to whomsoever He pleases… [2:269] mean that He bestows the correct understanding of His Book upon whomsoever He wills, just as He, Exalted is He, said w… »