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« the prayer. Thus, his state before and after the auditive experience (samāʿ) was the very same thing.’ See Sarrāj, Kitāb al-Lumaʿ, p. 293, trans. Böwering, Mystical Vision, p. 72. 8 Note that the verbal root dh-w-q may b… »
« 1 ʿUzayr is mentioned only once in the Qurʾān [9:30], The Jews say: ʿUzayr is the son of God; and the Christians say: The Messiah is the son of God. Muslim commentators have usually identified ʿUzayr with Ezra, or occasi… »
« He also said: Whoever is consulted and then gives advice that is contrary to his own opinion, God most High will strip him of his opinion, that is, He will dupe him into [believing] what he advised. [Moreover], whoever c… »
« human vs. God’s, 110 incompatible with trust in God, 17 n31 Jonah and, xxxv, 243 and n11 Index III: Subjects and Technical Terms 367 need to beware of, 321 one’s own, as a punishment, 28 life is in removal of, 110 result… »
« That is, they did not come to know Him as He deserves to be known (ḥaqq maʿrifatihi), [either] in the fundamental[s of His knowledge] (aṣl),17 or in its branch[es] (farʿ).18 His words: [39:68] …when whoever is in the hea… »
« given me a hunger that I cannot satisfy. Your remembrance has given me a thirst that I can- not quench. Oh, how I long for the One who sees me, but whom I see not!’ Then he came to the Tigris river and threw himself in t… »
« and Majestic is He, concealed [from David] in David’s realm, the light of certainty (nūr al-yaqīn) by which he could have perceived [with] the eye of certainty (ʿayn al-yaqīn) and the wholeness [of its vision],52 in or… »
« God, be it a spouse or children. Furthermore, he will not rid himself of that until he has annihilated all the interests (ḥuẓūẓ) he has,21 that are its [his calf ’s] means [of existence], just as the worshippers of the c… »
« was not in existence, and bring to extinction that which was in existence. His words: [44:24] And leave the sea behind you, at rest…4 1 i.e. the coming together of the descent of the blessed Qurʾān from the Preserved Tab… »
« law. Born in Medina, he is included in Bukhārī’s ‘Golden Chain’ of authoritative ḥadīth trans- mitters, and is the author of the well-known early work of law, al-Muwaṭṭaʾ. He is reported to have taught Shāfiʿī, Sufyān al… »
« 172 Tafsīr al-Tustarī through eating, drinking and [physical] enjoyment (tamattuʿ). Whoever cannot reconcile these two opposites, by which I mean, the natural self and the spir- itual self, so that the two together are s… »
« are often cited in exoteric commentaries on the Qurʾān, and on which independent works have been written, such as the Muʿjam al-qirāʾāt al-Qurʾāniyya of Aḥmad Mukhtār ʿUmar and ʿAbd al-ʿĀl Mukarram (Cairo, 1997), in whic… »
« of Israel, trans. Brinner, p. 42. 14 MS Z515, f. 72b has limā arāhu instead of limā raʾāhu, which comes to the same, in that Moses was seeing what God showed him. 126 Tafsīr al-Tustarī However, He did not will for him [P… »
« ʿadhāb (torment, punishment), 69. See also punishment; torment(s) 360 Tafsīr al-Tustarī adhān (call to prayer), 293 and n2. See also prayer ʿadl (justice), 168. See also inṣāf; justice, equity affliction (balāʾ, muṣība,… »
« an increase [in goodness]; and whoever performs a wicked act must seek forgiveness, so that he thereby merits forgiveness. Affliction from God is of two kinds: an affliction of mercy and an affliction of punishment. An a… »
« 1 His words, Exalted is He: [42:7] …That you may warn [the people of] the Mother of Cities, and those around it… He said: In its outward meaning, it [the Mother of Cities] refers to Mecca. In its inner meaning it refers… »
« mediator evil, 56 ḥadīth of, 245 and n7 Joseph seeking, 96 of Prophet, 31, 92, 238, 291 through Qurʾān, xxx, 3 intercessor(s) (shāfiʿ pl. shufaʿāʾ / shafῑʿ), 95. See also mediator believers are for each other, 187 Qurʾān… »
« states, ‘The gaze (naẓar) is among the arrows of Iblīs’. See Qurṭubī, Tafsīr, vol. 12, p. 227, While a comparable ḥadīth listed in Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 6, p. 101 and Tirmidhī, Nawādir al-uṣūl, vol. 3, p. 181… »
« the top and honey underneath.3 Then he said: I am amazed at the one who is not patient. How can he not show patience whatever the situ- ation might be (li’l-ḥāl), when the Lord of Might says: Surely God is with the patie… »
« He was asked, ‘What are the people who practise patience like?’ He replied: People of patience are of two kinds: one kind practise patience for the sake of this world, until they acquire what they desire for themselves f… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [48:1] Verily, We have given you a clear victory, He said: That is to say, ‘[We have opened] the secrets of the sciences (asrār al-ʿulūm) within your heart, so that their traces have become mani… »
« 150 n9, 166 n13, 176 n8, 188 n3, 208, 210, 212 n3, 286. See also gnosis adornment of, is worship, 108 and the Book, 175 hearts of, xlii, 58, 175 joyful with light of gnosis of God, 214 loving (al-ʿārifūn al-muḥibbūn), 40… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [99:6] On that Day, mankind shall issue forth in separate groups (to be shown their deeds). He said: Each person will be [made to] follow whatever he used to depend upon.1 Whoever depended upon… »
« and rahba requires the purification of the self from its desires and from other than God. 45 The subject of good opinion [of God] ḥusn al-ẓann is discussed further by Tustarī later in his commentary on this sūra, and is… »