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« comes from that. Gain ascendancy over the lower self and open for it the door to the Hereafter by glorifying [God] (tasbīḥ) and seeking forgiveness for your nation. From then on, he [the Prophet would seek forgiveness… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [46:6] And when mankind are gathered, [at the Resurrection], they will be enemies to them...1 He said: [This] concerns their lower selves, which led them into following them, [they will be turne… »
« as the Hosts of the Heavens are assembled [for His remembrance]. His words: [42:7] …[whereupon] some will be in the Garden and some will be in the Blazing Fire. He said: Whoever plants thorn trees will not reap grapes. S… »
« 30, 100, 166, 196, 298 U ʿubūdiyya (servanthood), 43 n6, 101, 108, 159, 161, 213, 220 n1, 261. See also ʿabd; servanthood ikhlāṣ fῑ’l- (sincerity in servanthood) 196 Uḥud, Day / Battle of, 49 and n43, 326, 331 ʿujb (conc… »
« Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Tawḥīd’, and in Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Īmān’. 9 In other words, this person interprets the abundance and provision as being God’s indication of his deserving it in some way. On istidrāj, again… »
« more precisely, physiognomy (firāsa), that is, the ability to understand what is in a person’s heart from their external appearance. Concerning firāsa, the Prophet said in a well-known ḥadīth: ‘Beware the spiritual perce… »
« c.e.) (Cairo, 1975), p. 210. In translating the version as it appears in Tustarī’s tafsīr, the feminine of the verb has been taken to refer to the nafs. The verb ḥashraja is an old Arab verb meaning to come up to the thr… »
« in danger [of losing that].6 On another occasion he said: The destitute person (muḍṭarr) is the one who has washed his hands of all power (ḥawl), strength (quwwa) and reprehensible means (asbāb madhmūma).7 Supplication (… »
« the manner that you have come.’ His words: [66:8] …on a day when God will not let the Prophet down… He said: He will not let him down concerning his nation, and will not refuse his intercession. Indeed God, Exalted is He… »
« Lord of the Worlds, when they reach the station of face-to-face encounter (maqām al-kifāḥ), that is, the immediate vision of direct witnessing (ʿiyān al-ʿiyān) beyond what has been [verbally] »
« (tark) of creatures (khalq) and drawing near (iqbāl) to God.’ His words: [11:15] He who desires the life of this world and its adornment, We shall repay them their deeds... Whoever aspires by his actions (ʿamal)3 to [att… »
« [9:122] … a party from each group should go forth so that they may become learned in religion He said: [That is], in order to learn what is necessary concerning their religion. It has been related from Ḥasan al-Baṣrī tha… »
« way during the day. However, during the night they were as God describes them in the next verse, Those who spend the night [in adoration of] their Lord prostrating and standing [25:64]. His words: [25:70] Except for him… »
« me in knowledge [20:114]’. 1 See the commentary on 2:255 above where Tustarī stated the words God! There is no God but Him, the Living, the Eternal Sustainer (Allāh lā ilāha illā hū al-Ḥayy al-Qayyūm) were written across… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [45:3] Truly in the heavens and the earth there are signs (āyāt) for those who believe. He said: The signs (ʿalāmāt) are for the one who has certainty (yaqīn) in his heart, and who is guided by… »
« Thee?’ and God replies: ‘With the broken-hearted’ (without ‘from the fear of Me’). 6 According to Sufi tradition there are two kinds of jealousy (ghayra) on the part of God towards His lovers, mystics, and veracious serv… »
« 71, 131, 138, 139, 158 and n10, 247–8, 254, 293, 321. See also desire, earnest false, 22, 104 far-fetched, 247, 255, 257 far-reaching, 248 fear and, 93 and n13, 100, 113–4, 132, 143, 156, 223 n11, 248, 289 of God’s mercy… »
« Labīd3 said: [Such a one] was on the point of [committing] a transgression, but then recalled the time when he will stand before God, Exalted is He, on the Day of Reckoning and refrained from that. I heard [the story of]… »
« is in a state of separation from God, believing from the point of view of duality. However, once he reaches the level of tamkīn in tawḥīd, that is, firmly and unshakeably in the realisation of the divine oneness, he will… »
« hamm (concern, anxiety), 61, 97 al-dunyā (for the world), 67 hamm (desire), 71. See also hawā; desire (hamm) ḥanān ([loving] compassion), xlvii n205. See also attributes, of God of John the Baptist, 119 n1 hand(s), of Go… »
« 6 The expression ammā baʿd, which is given as an example of fāṣila, serves the purpose of maintaining continuity of discourse, while also making a clear division of one topic from another. 7 That is translating faṣl al-k… »
« were gladdened by it, but Abū Bakr wept profusely. So the Messenger of God asked him “What makes you weep?” He said, “The parting of your soul has been announced for you O Messenger of God.”3 The Prophet said to him,… »
« 181, 184 neediness, need, utter neediness, for God (iftiqār / faqr, fāqa), xxxiv, xli, xlii and xliii–iv n182, xliv, liv, lix, 28, 37, 42, 49, 98 n21, 118, 147, 154, 159, 176, 195, 198, 216, 239, 249, 252, 278, 280, 281,… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [11:40] …and the oven gushed forth...6 It was an oven of stone, belonging firstly to Adam and then passing on to Noah, and God made the gushing forth of water from it a sign of His punishment.7… »