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« His words, Exalted is He: [21:7] …Ask the People of Remembrance, if you do not know. He said: That is, the people who possess understanding of God and those who have knowledge of God, His commands and His days (ayyām).1… »
« purification ṭalab (seeking, quest), for God, 67, 158. See also seeking taʿlīm (teaching), 198. See also ʿilm; knowledge (ʿilm, maʿrifa); learning ṭamaʿ (earnest desire), 223 and n11, 275. See also rajāʾ; raghba; shawq t… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [17:8] …but if you revert, We too revert… Sahl said: It means, ‘If you revert to transgression, We revert to forgiveness; and if you revert to turning your backs on Us, We revert to advancing to… »
« Gimaret, Daniel. Théories de l’acte humaine en théologie musulmane. Paris and Leuven, 1980. Goldziher, Ignaz. ‘Abdāl.’ EI2. Vol. i, p. 94. Gutas, Dimitri. Greek Wisdom Literature in Arabic Translation: A Study of the Gra… »
« because, when he knows what state (ḥāl) he is in, his obedience and repentance (tawba) will be acceptable through God’s proof (ḥujja).20 However, if he does not know [his state] he will fall into confusion and bewilderme… »
« His words: [6:125] When God wishes to guide someone, He expands their breast to Islam… Sahl said: Truly God has distinguished between the one who seeks (murīd) and the one who is [divinely] sought (murād), even though th… »
« (khawāṭir) and aspirations (himam) which are within it [the self].11 On the other hand, they confide in Him by showing their neediness for Him and seeking refuge in Him. Furthermore, if the heart acquiesces in that which… »
« as a crashing blow (101:1–2), 302 of corruption of the heart, 186 external, 69 God’s, 50, 261, 248, 257, 280, 284, 302 God’s mercy having precedence over His, 6 of the heart, 69 kinds of, 272 of lack of knowledge of repe… »
« knowledge of things and their names, as is already indicated in 2:31: And He taught Adam the names of things, all of them, which commentators have usually understood to mean ‘He was taught the knowledge of things’, and a… »
« by William Chittick in his Sufi Path of Knowledge (Albany, NY, 1989), pp. 3, 114, 211, 296 and 380; and several examples cited in Keeler, Sufi Hermeneutics, pp. 194, 251–3; and 258–9. 7 The editor of the Dār al-Kutub al-… »
« for the Maghrib prayer, when they had been for some time with Sahl after the ʿAṣr prayer, which is prayer after the mid-afternoon. 323 Appendix of Names Cited 1 ʿAbd Allāh b. ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb (d. 73/693). A Companion… »
« 4 That is, in conformity with God’s will. 5 According to Sufi tradition, the abdāl or budalāʾ (pl. of badal meaning literally ‘substitute’), constitute one degree or rank in the spiritual hierarchy of saints or mystics a… »
« xlvii, 42 of Qurʾān, process of, xxvi, 5 reward(s) (jazāʾ), xxviii, xxxiv, xxxvi and n143, lii, 3, 21, 28, 33, 38, 39, 81, 85, 91, 92, 95, 103, 106, 116, 149, 150, 159, 166, 178, 181, 182, 184, 185, 193, 197, 205, 207 n1… »
« His words: [43:32] …and the mercy of your Lord is better than what they amass. That is, than an abundance of works done seeking reward.6 His words, Exalted is He: [43:36] We assign a devil as a companion for whoever turn… »
« those who disbelieve a painful chastisement.6 1 Bayhaqī, Sunan, vol. 6, pp. 147 and 167; Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-zawāʾid, vol. 10, pp. 117, 137 and 181; Ibn Ḥanbal, al-Musnad, vol. 5, p. 42. 2 The section in brackets is adde… »
« child, so that he is known by the name Ḥabīb b. Ḥabīb Rasūl Allāh. He rode behind the Prophet when, in the year 8/632, he entered Mecca, and entered the Kaʿba with him, and he was one of those who prepared the Prophet fo… »
« He was asked about life… He said, ‘He who wastes his life…’3 His words, Exalted is He: [6:54] ...Your Lord has prescribed for Himself mercy. Truly, whoever of you does evil in ignorance, and repents thereafter and makes… »
« towards the lusts of the lower self (shahawāt al-nafs) and heedlessness (ghafla). For those who circumambulate it [the Kaʿba], as also for those who uphold the lights of faith, there will be manifold increase in [God-giv… »
« In explaining the need to ‘flee from tawakkul’, Makkī mentions firstly the necessary abandoning of any dependence on the station of tawakkul, and secondly, that looking upon one’s tawakkul is a flaw in that tawakkul, for… »
« Jaʿfar al-Ṭabarī and other commentators cite numerous exegetical traditions on his authority. Suddī, Muḥammad b. Marwan al- (al-Suddī al-Ṣaghīr), (d. 186/801 or 2). An early traditionist of Kufa who lived in Baghdad. Suf… »
« and an authority on Qurʾānic exegesis. He is said to have been a disciple of Ibn ʿAbbās, but also studied with other Companions such as ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib and Ubayy b. Kaʿb. He is said to have gone to great lengths to dis… »
« After the death of the Prophet, he was appointed as a tax collector by ʿUmar b. al-Khaṭṭāb, and later acted as deputy to the governor of Medina, the Umayyad Amir Marwān b. al-Ḥakam. Abū Jahl, ʿAmr b. Hishām (d. 2/624). O… »
« became annoyed with him. Someone said to him, ‘You have offended the prophet of God.’ He replied, ‘All I desire is to look at the mouth which spoke to God.’ Then he [Moses] said, My Lord! Show me [Yourself], that I may b… »
« anything, while he would order his companions to eat meat once a week so that they would not become too weak for worship. However for him, when he ate he would become weak, and when he became hungry he would gain in stre… »