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« and of his subsequent procrastination of repentance. Do you not see how Iblīs, when he refused [to obey], and persisted in that refusal was forsaken by God due to His prior knowledge about him? This is because He willed… »
« with denial. 3 See above the commentary on 3:7 regarding different kinds of knowledge granted by God. 4 Tustarī’s teachings concerning knowledge and the role of the intellect are discussed above in IT, pp. xlivff. Tafsīr… »
« 25 [Continuing on from this] Sahl explained that the words, If he is able to make his way there [3:97] are an allusion to the provision (zād) and the riding beast (rāḥila). He then asked, ‘Do you know what the provision… »
« reality; realisation; secret(s), inner truth(s) affirmation of (taṣdīq), 48 n41 authority of, 114 of certainty, xlix n209 denial of, 58 deviation from, 59 distinguishing, from falsehood, 139, 231 n4, 261 lofty rank of, 6… »
« promise, We shall restore him to you [28:7]. His words: [28:24] …My Lord, I am in dire need of whatever good thing You may send me.4 He returned to God in a state of utter neediness (iftiqār) and humble entreaty (taḍarru… »
« printed edition. The Banū Madlaj were among the non-Muslim tribes to the south-west of Medina with whom the Prophet made a pact prior to the Battle of Badr. 23 A reference to the sound that came from the hollowed out ido… »
« you, and you adopted it as your kin.’ David said, ‘Show me one from among your servants who, if You tested him, would show patience.’ Then God, Mighty and Majestic is He, said, ‘I’m going to test you.’ Thus he [David]… »
« other words, it is [God’s] taking charge and taking care (tawallī) [of His creatures] from the beginning to the end. His words: [39:41] Truly, We have revealed the Book to you for [the sake of] mankind with the Truth… Th… »
« Dihlawī, ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Aḥmad. Bustān al-muḥaddithīn, translated from the Persian into Arabic by Mohammed Akram Nadwi, and from Arabic into English by Aisha Bewley as The Garden of the Hadith Scholars: Bustān al-Muḥadd… »
« The following was read before Sahl and he affirmed the truth of it: ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb said, ‘Whoever wishes to visualise (yabṣira) the Day of Resurrection should read Sūrat al-Qiyāma, for the resurrection of each one… »
« 255, 270, 288, 298, 300 darkness is, 48 death is through, 189 and disobedience, 105, 110 persistence in sin gives rise to, 250 is root of evil, 170 and satiety, 72 iḥsān (beneficence, of God, goodness, benevolence), xlvi… »
« 6 The word diya is traditionally used for ‘blood money’ or ‘blood wit’ that can be claimed by a victim’s family from the victim’s killer. 7 Tribulation here being the tests and trials that purify the self. 8 The subject… »
« tory (farḍ) and one of which is a superogatory virtue (faḍīla). [The first three are:] patience [or steadfastness] in obedience to God, Mighty and Majestic is He; patience in [refraining from] His disobedience; and patie… »
« I [set about] arranging my affairs during my life and for [after my death], but found there was no need for me to attend to them due to the antecedent arrangements (sābiq tadbīr) that God, Exalted is He, made for His ser… »
« designated, specificity), xxvii, xxix, 2, 66, 80, 88, 106, 178, 259 khaṭar pl. khawāṭir / khaṭarāt (unwarranted thought, notion, suggestion), l, lvii, 16, 36, 122–3, 170, 249 Khatm al-Anbiyāʾ (Seal of the Prophets), 93.… »
« ʿabd meaning ‘servant’.3 …And You [alone] we ask for help, that is, in what You have charged us with, which is [rightfully] Yours, [and over which] You exercise Your will (mashīʾa) and volition (irāda).4 Moreover, knowle… »
« Prophet said, ‘There is not a vessel more detestable to God than a stomach filled with food.’18 His words, Exalted is He: [20:111] And faces shall be humbled before the Living, the Eternal Sustainer… He said: It means:… »
« only an expression of their inner reality. They [the prophets] responded by indicating that [only He] possesses knowledge [of the answer]. It could also mean, ‘We have no knowledge of the meaning of your question, since… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [24:1] [This is] a sūra which We have revealed and prescribed… That is, We compiled it and expounded within it what is lawful and unlawful. His words, Exalted is He: [24:22] …Let them forgive an… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [82:5] [then] a soul will know what it has sent ahead and [what it has] left behind. That is, what it has sent forward, the good or bad, and what it left behind in the form of an evil practice t… »
« is for God” [for example] when you tie the bonds of kinship (raḥm); that is for kinship, there is nothing in it for God. ⸢Neither will it expiate [for you] any misdeed (maẓlama).⸣’8 Indeed, when Muʿādh requested of the P… »
« of the Prophet, and the latter being his Sunna. 6 This principle, namely that the true mystic and lover of God should desire neither this world nor the Hereafter, but only God Himself, was taken up and developed in later… »
« 79 bounties] (al-Munʿim), they will be seized.’ His words: [7:185] Have they not contemplated the dominion of the heavens and the earth… He [Sahl] said: [This is] God’s reminder of His omnipotence (qudra) [manifested] in… »
« of their own. Ummī can also mean ‘he who has no [prior] knowledge of the scriptures’, hence the term ummī, in relation to the Prophet Muḥammad, does not necessarily mean illiterate in the modern sense of that word. 234 »