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« [66:6] O you who believe! Guard yourselves and your families against a Fire… He said: That is, by obeying God and following the ways of the Prophet  (sunan). His words, Exalted is He: [66:8] O you who believe! Turn to G… »

« him to pursue it. Or he may turn back to his Lord seeking refuge in Him and clinging to His protection (iʿtiṣām). However, in his native land,32 God concealed His remembrance from [Adam] until after he had committed that… »

« [21:69] We said: ‘O Fire! Be coolness and safety for Abraham.10 He said: Fire is [generally] authorised to burn; even so it will not burn anyone whom it is not authorised to burn. ʿUmar b. Wāṣil al-ʿAnbarī said, ‘I was w… »

« merchant, he embraced Islam some time after the Battle of Badr and subsequently renounced commerce in order to devote himself to worship and the remembrance of God. He was one of the few who collected revelations in writ… »

« [affect] him personally or his children. So it is that Muslim b. Yasār said on the death of his son, ‘O my son, my grief for you has distracted me from grieving over [my loss of] you. O God, I have transferred to him the… »

« whom God turns back to the acquiescence of his lower self (musākana nafsihi), [about whom] He said, It belonged to deprived people (masākin) who worked at sea [18:79].147 He returned them to the situation in which they h… »

« His words, Exalted is He: [33:35] …and the men who remember God often and the women who remember God often… The one who observes true remembrance (al-dhākir ʿalā’l-ḥaqīqa) is he who is aware that God witnesses him. He pe… »

« mystic’s heart] that the angels make pilgrimage, for it is the House of the Realisation of God’s Oneness (bayt al-tawḥīd). His words, Exalted is He: [52:5] and the raised canopy This is the pleasing ⸢and pure⸣ act (al-ʿa… »

« For which see above IC, p. 5 and n. 22. 3 The MSS Z515, f. 60b and F3488, f. 233a have yasmaʿūna, whereas F638, f. 28b and the printed edition have tasmaʿūna. 4 As was stated above (p. 30, n. 92), the word ṭumaʾnīna or i… »

« 203 Sahl said: I practised scrupulous piety (waraʿ) for forty years and it happened that [my] attention was turned from me ⸢towards Him⸣15 and He corrected me with His words: They deem it to be a favour to you that they… »

« of hatred for this world, 265 of hypocrites, 58, 250 Iblis’ outward sign of love, 42 and n9 Kaʿba erected on earth as, 133 Index III: Subjects and Technical Terms 397 of love, 40 of people of longing, 33 of reaching face… »

« they hid. To begin with, the young men drove the dog away, being afraid that its bark would reveal their whereabouts, but then the dog got up and spoke to them, and made the attestation of divine oneness and they let him… »

« the spiritual self, for if this were to part from him, it would leave him without motion (ḥaraka), and lifeless (mayyit). Thus, the dense natural self has a subtle substance (laṭīfa) and likewise the spiritual self has a… »

« curse of, 42, 45 design/ plan of (tadbīr), 74 devising, managing, for His servants, xxxv, 74, 88, 151, 187, 241 ‘finding’ God, 64 is forgiving, 64, 276 good pleasure of (riḍā / marḍā), 8, 23, 24, 26, 29, 39, 44, 47, 56,… »

« forget Me in any situation. Let your aspiration (himma) be for My remembrance (dhikr), for I will take care of your path.’160 But God, Transcendent and Exalted is He, knows best.  »

« to an advanced age, narrating a great number of ḥadīth that are recorded in the collections of al-Bukhārī and Muslim. ʿAqīl b. Abī Ṭālib (d. ca 50/670). The elder brother of ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, who was 20 years his junior… »

« shajar, those which have a trunk.’3 His words: [37:107] Then We ransomed him with a mighty sacrifice.4 He said: When Abraham  loved his son with a natural human [love], God’s favour (faḍl) and pro- tection (ʿiṣma) corre… »

« God has full knowledge of servant’s, 300 God is witness to, 301 guarding one’s, 205 importance of scrutinising one’s, 198 and n9 knowledge of, by people of gnosis, xliii, 73 knowledge of one’s, 86, 122 and nn18, 20 and 2… »

« dhanb pl. dhunub (sin), 250. See also maʿṣiya; ithm; sin(s) dhāt (essence, also ‘self ’ or ‘person’), of God, xlvii n205, 2, 19, 22 and n60, 89, 173, 175, 294. See also essence, of God dhātῑ pl. dhātiyyūn (one whose know… »

« Abū Bakr stated that Sahl [himself] said, ‘Wisdom is the integration of the sciences, and its origin is the Sunna. God, Exalted is He, has said: And recite what is rehearsed to you in your houses of the revelations of Go… »

« And he added: Trust is not acceptable from anyone except one who is mindful of God (muttaqī). He was asked, ‘What is mindfulness of God?’ He replied: It is to refrain from all harm [to others] (adhā).17 His words, Exalte… »

« wards it… He said: God has informed [us] of the despicable nature and base aspiration of the one who is diverted from his Lord by something of this world or the Hereafter. For God made the way open for him and allowed hi… »

« that at Bakka, a blessed place [3:96].’ Some have said, ‘He [God] called it ʿatīq because no tyrant ever headed for it with an evil design without God’s destroying him and freeing (aʿtaqa) His House from him. Some have s… »

« (khawf) and terror (hawl) which comes to [others].  4 Usually said to be basil, which indeed bears the name rayḥān in Arabic. 5 i.e. they will be the winners that day, the Day of Resurrection. 6 This is probably an allu… »