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« lights given to you which have not been given to any prophet before you: Fātiḥat al-Kitāb and the concluding verses of Sūrat al-Baqara. You will never recite any letter from them for which you will not be given a reward.… »
« 4 On Sufi interpretations of the Light Verse (24:35), see Gerhard Böwering, ‘The Light Verse: Qurʾānic Text and Sufi Interpretation’, Oriens 36 (2001), pp. 113–44. 5 All three MSS (Z515 f. 79a; F638, f. 36b and F3488,… »
« the Prophet to tell them that they should not claim to believe or have faith, but rather they should say that they have submitted, for faith has not yet entered into your hearts. »
« But God knows best. 8 This saying is cited in Makkī, Qūt al-qulūb, vol. 1, pp. 351–2, but is attributed to Ḥasan al-Baṣrī. 9 Bayhaqī, Shuʿab al-īmān, vol. 1, p. 524; Ibn al-Jawzī, Ṣifat al-ṣafwa, vol. 3, pp. 53–4. »
« angel(s) (malāʾika sing. malak), xxvii, xxxvi, 11, 13, 15, 16 and n24, 24, 33 and n113, 34, 45 n25, 53 n3, 67, 73, 96, 107, 108, 132, 140, 149, 173, 178, 183 n3, 204, 210 and n1, 221, 224, 226, 227, 244, 245, 247, 258, 2… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [71:7] …And they persist [in their rejection], and act in great arrogance.1 He said: Persistence in sin (dhanb) gives rise to ignorance, and ignorance gives rise to a transgression into falsehoo… »
« 2 That is, reading li-sābiq al-qadar in MSS Z515, f. 134b and F3488, f. 317b, or li-sābiqat al-qadar in F638, f. 66b, as opposed to li-sābiq al-qudra in the printed edition. 3 It being a reference back to the soul, which… »
« eternity, the existence of the Prophet Muḥammad preceded all creatures and all the other prophets derived their light from him, although he was the last to appear in the sublunary world. This is discussed by Tustarī in h… »
« The [true] believer is never lax (mutahāwin) with the slightest shortcoming, for laxity with a little will inevitably lead to [laxity in] a lot. He further said: The servant will not get the taste of faith until he aband… »
« Sahl said, ‘Muḥammad b. Sawwār informed me from Mālik b. Dīnār from Maʿrūf b. ʿAlī from al- Ḥasan, from Maḥārib b. Dithār, from Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh (may God be pleased with them all), that he reported that when Sūrat Bar… »
« before you, for they [were following] the way of guidance; and the Law (sharīʿa) is the clear thoroughfare that extends to the path of salvation (ṭarīq al-najāt) and the way of right guid- ance (sabīl al-rushd). His word… »
« on this verse. See also p. 66, n. 12 above. 4 This a reference to the ram which God commanded should be sacrificed in place of Abraham’s son, once he (Abraham) had proved his readiness to sacrifice his son out of obedien… »
« substance, subtle Law / law(s), sacred, religious (sharīʿa pl. sharāʾiʿ, also sharʿ), xxii n72, 22, 34, 36 and n141, 43, 57, 71, 98 n21, 103, 117 n12, 173 n18, 181, 189, 205, 241, 261, 268, 310 n6, 318 n2. See also lawfu… »
« Abū Yaʿqūb al-Sūsī, 166 and n8, 324 Abū Yazīd al-Biṣṭāmī, xvii n19, 104 n3, 203 n16 ʿĀd, 73 and n13, 251 and n1 Adam, xlii, 15, 18 and n36, 51, 66, 196, 285 children/ progeny of, xxxii, xxxv, xliii, 76–7, 174, 227, 236,… »
« The poor person is [one who is both] poor [and] helpless (faqīr ʿājiz). Poverty ⸢is honour (ʿizz)⸣151 when it is the poverty of the heart’s being agitated [in its need]152 for God, Mighty and Majestic is He, and the repo… »
« Mighty and Majestic is He.36 [On the other hand], ʿUmar b. Wāṣil said: those whose knowledge derives from the divine lordliness (rabbāniyyūn) are the collectivity of scholars. This resembles a saying of ʿAlī , ‘People a… »
« by extension, to become clear by being distinct. Lane lists numerous meanings for bayān, including: ‘the means by which one makes a thing [distinct] apparent, manifest, evident clear or perspicuous’, which may be either… »
« to realise that this was a divine favour. Compare the words of Bāyazīd (Abū Yazīd al-Bisṭāmī): ‘At the beginning [of my wayfaring] I was mistaken in four things: I supposed that I remembered Him and knew Him and loved Hi… »
« ing (fahm), all of which pre-existed as a momentous gift (mawhiba jalīla) before the creation appeared by a thousand years, and thus did they subdue the natural self.’7 [94:7] So when you are finished, toil, ‘[When you h… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [27:10, 11] …Surely in My presence the messengers do not fear, except he who has wronged [others]… He said: There was never among the prophets and messengers an oppressor. However, this addres… »
« from this encounter that both Tustarī and Abū Yaʿqūb are in agreement in their disapproval of the faqīr’s being more distressed about the loss of his state than the loss of his faith. »
« be wary of Him…, by which is meant that He knew what was hidden within yourselves before He created you, namely, every single act81 done in the way of goodness, that He was to com- mand and the performance of which He wo… »
« adornment wariness (ḥadhr). Moreover, you should let your work consist in being content (irtiḍāʾ) — or he said contentment (riḍā) — , your journey’s provision (zād) be mindfulness of God (taqwā), your eating be at night,… »
« in this world and Hereafter, 166 proximity (qurb), with God, xxiii n74, lii, liii, liv, 47, 48, 79, 106, 120, 142, 144, 155, 160, 193, 200, 218, 219, 271, 274, 286, 291 people of, xxxii, xxxv, xxxvii, 78 signs of people… »