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« is for God alone, Exalted is He. His words: [7:198] …You see them staring at you, but they do not perceive. He [Sahl] said: It [refers to] those hearts that God, Exalted is He, has not adorned with His lights and with pr… »
« you, in terms of carrying out his obligations (farḍ) and the Sunna of His Prophet.’17 Likewise is the meaning of His words, Save a rope from God [3:112], meaning a covenant from God and His religion. He called it a rope… »
« luṭf (benevolence, grace, graciousness), 85, 136 n5, 243, 267, 270, 292. See also birr (beneficence); faḍl (divine favour) al-rubūbiyya (grace of Lordship), 32 M mā shāʾa’Llāh (what God wills), 117 n11 maʿād (final retur… »
« emigration (hijr), 110 Tafsīr al-Tustarī 368 empowerment, by God (tamkīn), 10, 125. See also stability at encounter with God in Paradise, 185 and n11, 193 n3, 213 n8 emulation (iqtidāʾ), liii–liv, 25 and n73, 86, 121, 13… »
« The first instance of forgetfulness (nisyān) that took place in Paradise was the forgetfulness of Adam, and it was a deliberate forgetfulness, not accidental, that is, it signified his abandonment of the Covenant.28 Sahl… »
« given you in the life of the world, such as prophethood and messengership. His words, Exalted is He: [93:6] Did He not find you an orphan and shelter you? He said: Did He not find you alone and then gave you refuge with… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [20:39] …I cast upon you love from Me...3 He said: God made apparent his bequest of knowledge to him [Moses] before any works [were done].4 He bequeathed for him love (maḥabba) in the hearts of… »
« the actual manifestation of that which has been decreed. See Gaafar, PhD thesis, pp. 223–5. 14 Tafsīr al-Tustarī strength concerning that which they have been commanded to do and prohibited from doing, in faith, speech a… »
« the world. And He made her grow in goodness, through righteous action, accompanied by the remembrance of God, Exalted is He, while all her bodily members were [engaged] in the service of God, and her heart was full of th… »
« sinking of a ship with people aboard (referred to here in Tustarī’s commentary); the second, is the killing of a youth; and the third is the rebuilding of a ruined wall without taking any payment. The third time Moses br… »
« of God, Exalted is He, for him.5 His words, Exalted is He: [13:39] God erases whatever He will and He fixes whatever He will, and with Him is the Mother of the Book. He [Sahl] said: God erases what He wills in the realm… »
« firāsa (physiognomy), 73 n12, 105 and n5, 189 fire, 32, 33, 119 four kinds of, 306 of Nimrod, 32 n110, 62, 66 n13, 129 Fire. See Hellfire fiṭna (discernment), lvi, 120. See also discernment al-qalb (discernment of the he… »
« f. 307a. 3 The word Allāh is absent from all three MSS, while the words min al-ʿaduww, absent from the published edition, have been added on the basis of all three MSS: Z515, f. 125b, F638, f. 61a and F3488, f. 307a. Thu… »
« blessings he and his family have been granted — including, presumably, his ability to hear the language of the birds and other creatures. 2 Translating the plural, qulūb, on the basis of MS F638, f. 38a. 3 See above, Tus… »
« He said: This refers to whims (ahwāʾ) and innovations (bidaʿ). His words, Exalted is He: [7:46] And on the Heights are men… 4 Perhaps this is referring to the medicinal use of certain foods. 5 Takhlīṭ literally means ‘co… »
« But God knows best. 1 Note that we have used the present tense here, since Tustarī is interpreting the verse to indicate an ongoing situation in human beings. 296 »
« See also oneness wrath (ghadab, sakhṭ), 6 n28, 100, 209, 214 wisdom (ḥikma), 59, 102 word, creative (kalam), 108 n5 workmanship (ṣanʿa), 102 authority (sulṭān), 3 n14, 83, 116, 120 of / from God, 114, 280 intoxication of… »
« ‘The abundance of wealth I possessed, since I did not pay what was due from it to God, and I did not use it to strengthen ties of kinship.’4 [69:29] ‘My authority has gone from me.’ That is, ‘My proof and my excuse’. [69… »
« appears to refer to that to which the slave will be subjected in the Hereafter, whereas the weighing up (muwāzana) is referring to something to be done in this world. However, Tustarī clearly recommends an accounting (mu… »
« The best among people are the Muslims, the best among Muslims are the believers,11 the best among believers are the scholars who act upon their knowledge, the best among those who act [upon their knowledge] are the fearf… »
« ⸢ He said⸣: That is, a part in their4 worship. Do you not notice how the Prophet says, ‘Truly, some of you when they pray only gain from their prayer a third or a quarter of it’?5 His words: [43:32] …and [We have] rais… »
« good life. His words, Exalted is He: [59:14] …You [would] suppose them to be together, but their hearts are disunited… He said: The people of truth are united and the people of falsehood are forever divided. And even tho… »
« discussed, lvii–lix every breath must be spent in, 80 hearts revived through, 180 with knowledge / intellect, 100 life of angels is in / through, 160, 173 life of hearts is through, 152 life of innermost secret (sirr) is… »
« world] from the duties that they should perform for Us, such that they forget to show gratitude towards Us, so We shall seize them whence they do not know.8 His words, Mighty and Majestic is He: [68:49] Had it not been f… »