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« al-shukr an turīda’l-mazīd. The former seems more plausible in the context. It is worth bearing in mind that the word raʾā can have the meaning of seeing in the sense of experiencing as well as seeing in the sense of rec… »
« 3 In other words, patience comprises in itself the reward for patience, i.e. the honey, just as the knowledge that God is with us comprises in itself a sense of comfort and well-being. 4 The words said by Potiphar to his… »
« 78. See also prayer: ritual; ṣalāt Ramadan, 245. See also fasting rāqib (heedful), of God, 36. See also heedful; heedfulness raqīm (18:9, inscription or name of dog), 115 and n5 rāsikhūna fī’l-ʿilm (those who are rooted… »
« Abraham praying for, 142 n4 Joseph seeking, 95 Muḥammad praying for, xxxix, 314 in Paradise, 193 seeking (istighfār), xxxiv, xxxix, 24, 28, 34, 50, 67, 91, 95, 108, 137, 193, 194, 314, 322 and n14 forsaken, by God, 50, 5… »
« goodness ḥayāt ṭayyiba (the good life), xxxvi, 284 al-kalām (goodness in speech), 286 taʿẓīm (magnifying [God], exaltation, utmost reverence), 35, 74, 174, 194, 197 testimony (shahāda). See also witness, bearing of faith… »
« saying of, 103 scrupulous piety and, 121–2 seeking, secretly, 71 in servanthood, 196 three facets of, 298 is witnessing, 88, 159 sinner(s), xix, 50, 53 and n3, 64, 173, 276 of Muḥammad’s nation, not disowned by Tustarῑ,… »
« We are told of the dog, as it were standing guard at the entrance of the cave [18:18]. One of the young men is eventually sent to the city by the others to procure the purest food and bring them a supply of it, but is wa… »
« Paradise, and will be changed from one state to another state (ḥāl ilā ḥāl), more eminent and satisfying than the previous one, as you were in the world, rising from rank to rank, higher and higher, through earnest desir… »
« Arabs believed that angels were the daughters of God. However, Tustarī frees the word from that traditional association in his comment on this verse. 4 Translating ʿibādatihim according to all MSS: Z515, f. 97b, F638, f.… »
« Sahl further said: I received [a tradition] on the authority of Ibn ʿAbbās according to which he said: ‘God, Exalted is He, has sworn that this Book which was revealed to Muḥammad is the book from God’s presence, Exalt… »
« 27 This means: it is not righteousness that you do nothing other than this; [True] righteousness is [that of] the one who believes in God [2:177], to the end of that verse.80 Do you not notice how He says, Do you bid oth… »
« riches in your heart, protection in obedience, and success in renouncing [the world] (zuhd). Whoever is inspired with propriety (adab) in that which is between him and God, Exalted is He, will be purified of heart, and b… »
« muʿāmala pl. muʿāmalāt (dealing, trafficking, transaction), 151, 173 n18, 191, 310 muʿaqqibāt (attendents, angels), 100 and n1. See also angel(s) muʿāyana (visual beholding), 56, 77, 120, 303. See also ʿiyān; vision; beh… »
« His words: [9:16] …an intimate friend (walīja)…3 ʿUmar b. Wāṣil al-ʿAnbarī said, ‘A walīja is anything that you cause to enter or become part of some- thing other than itself.’4 Sahl said: This means that they5 did not b… »
« plied to each of the two carotid arteries and sometimes to each of the two external jugular veins’. It is also applied to ‘a vein between the windpipe and the two sinews, called the ʿilbāwān’ or ‘a certain vein in the ne… »
« Sahl was asked, ‘What was that blessing (niʿma)?’ He replied: God blessed them with fear (khawf) and vigilance (murāqaba), because fear, concern (hamm) and sorrow (ḥuzn) increase one’s good deeds, whereas exuberance (ash… »
« further down in this same passage that God concealed from him the light of certainty. 52 lit. and its ‘entirety’ (kulliyya). See above, IT, p. xlix, and the commentary on 102:7 below. »
« tions, it is also believed to be ‘a rock beneath the seventh earth, under which the book of the unbeliever is placed’, or ‘a rock in Hell to which the spirits of the wicked are brought’. Again, see Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm… »
« That is, the well. And al-Ayka [50:14] is a wood. In its inner meaning, the people of Rass are the people of ignorance, and the dwellers in the wood [50:14] are the pursuers of lusts. His words, Exalted is He: [50:18] he… »
« [He said]: That is, ‘The first house which was set down for men was the House of God, Mighty and Majestic is He, in Mecca.’ This is the outward meaning [of the verse]. However inwardly it implies the Messenger. The one w… »
« Then he said: The corruption of religion is in three things: when kings commit excess[es] and [follow] their lusts; when the scholars issue rulings based on concessions; and when the Qurʾān reciters wor- ship without kno… »
« to be implied without its actually having been mentioned in the verse. 9 This verse and the one that follows briefly allude to the story Jonah, which is narrated in a slightly extended form in 37:139–48. Jonah is also re… »
« al-sawābiq), and, lest they claim for themselves that of which they are not worthy, such as claims of [having attained the station of] love (maḥabba), gnosis (maʿrifa) and so on. He said: There were in Jerusalem (Bayt al… »
« advocates of free will. The term qadar means ‘power’, and therefore conversely, the term was also occasionally applied to those who held the opposite view and maintained the divine omnipotence, insisting that God was the… »