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« your fast down to good judgement and sincerity.’5 Likewise, if you are known for seclusion and you leave your seclusion, he will say, ‘What will people say? You have left your seclusion.’ If you 1 See the explanation con… »
« His words, Mighty and Majestic is He: [19:32] …He did not make me arrogant and wretched. That is, ignorant of His commandments, and disdainful of His worship out of pride. The Prophet said, ‘Pride (kibriyāʾ) is the clo… »
« That is, in recording the knowledge of my Lord and His wonders. Then he said: His Book is part of His knowledge, and if a servant was given a thousand ways of understand- ing each letter of the Qurʾān, he would not reach… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [74:1, 2] O you enveloped in your mantle, arise and warn, He said: ‘O you who are seeking succour from your own self in order to relieve your breast and heart. Arise through Us and shed from y… »
« [109:5] nor will you worship what I worship, in the future. [109:6] (You have your religion and I have a religion).1 You have your choice (ikhtiyār) for your religion and I have my choice for a religion. Then [this verse… »
« as ‘Succour’ (ghawth), who is the axis mundi or spiritual ‘pole’ of the universe; after the Pole come the two ‘Foremost’ or ‘Assistants’ (imāmān); below them come five ‘Mainstays’ (awtād) or ‘Pillars’ or ‘Props’ (ʿumud);… »
« tafsīr Sūrat al-Naṣr’, and ‘Bāb al-manāqib’. 4 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Bāb waḍʿ al-māʾ ʿinda’l-khalāʾ’; Ibn Ḥanbal, al-Musnad, vol. 1, p. 335; Ibn Abī Shayba, al-Muṣannaf, vol. 6, p. 383. The word taʾwīl, a verbal noun derived… »
« the uses of his staff.2 Moses mentioned the benefits and uses of the staff that had appeared to him, but God, Exalted is He, intended [to draw his attention to] uses and benefits [of the staff] that were, as yet, hidde… »
« is He, created the self and made ignorance its nature (ṭabʿ) and made desire (hawā) the closest thing to it. He also made desire the door by which man’s ruin enters. Sahl was asked about the meaning of [a person’s] natur… »
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« He said: It is in no way a scene of frivolity (laghw), nor is it a place of sin (ithm), for it is a place which has been sanctified with [divine] lights for the holy (muqaddasūn) among His servants. Indeed, it is what ha… »
« pay no attention to any other than these two [kinds of servant], because the others claimed what they did not have. Ibn ʿAyniyya said concerning this verse: Why do you speak about a matter which does not concern you, for… »
« xxxiii, xxxiv–xxxv, xxxvi, 2, 13 n11, 17 n31, 20 and n51, 88, 101, 106, 118, 142, 143, 231 and n3, 288, 299. See also predestination ill (sūʾ al-), 210 justice and, 27 Mother of Book as, 27 and n84, 101 deed(s), act(s),… »
« of friends of God, liv, 144 in gnosis, 126 greatest, 243, 255 highest, 67 in love, 145 mystical / spiritual, xi, xvii, l n213, lvi n256, lix, 65, 67, 243, 253 of opposition, 189 in patience, of Uways, 305 Praiseworthy, g… »
« Abū Bakr relates that it was said to Sahl: ‘Truly God has granted you wisdom (ḥikma)’, to which he replied: Indeed, God willing, I have been granted wisdom (ḥikma) and [a knowledge of] the unseen (ghayb) which I was taug… »
« all means (asbāb) other than [God]. By resorting to Him (rujūʿ ilayhi), [the servant] will find that God provides for him the means of acquitting himself of that which He has given him to do, without his circumventing it… »
« 1997. Translated into German with introduction and commentary by Richard Gramlich as Die Nahrung der Herzen. Stuttgart, 1992–5. Mālik b. Anas (Imām Mālik). Kitāb al-Muwaṭṭaʾ. English translation by Muhammad Rahimuddin. D… »
« [That is], a calm pathway (ṭarīq sākin) [for you to cross]. Its inner meaning is: ‘Make your heart acquiesce in (sākin) My management (tadbīrī) [of your affairs].’5 …Indeed they will be a drowned host, that is, those who… »
« His words, ‘has lost two thirds of his religion’ means that two out of the three were involved, the tongue and the rest of the bodily members, but the principal part of the heart remained in its place, for no one can rea… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [23:1–2] Indeed, prosperous are the believers, those who in their prayers are humbly submissive (khāshiʿūn), [Sahl was asked], ‘What is humble submission?’ He replied: Humble submission (khush… »
« at the Throne of my Lord and had been brought forth for the reckoning…’ 14 MS Z515 f. 81b, ends the commentary on this sūra with the words: ‘God knows best what is right’ (wa’Llāhu aʿlam bi’l- ṣawāb). 147 »
« daʿwa (call, summons), by God, 88, 177 daʿwa (supplication), 145. See also duʿāʾ; supplication(s) daʿwā pl. dawāʾiʿ (claim), 96, 145. See also claim(s) death, xl n156, xlv, liii, lvii, 8, 21, 25, 30, 97, 98, 140, 159, 17… »
« them, for they must be questioned [37:24] about [their] religion (diyāna), and they will not be able to shake off the evidence against them, so He will put them into the Hellfire. Then vantage points will be opened for t… »
« keep friendship for the sake of Allāh’. 10 That is, according to the published edition and MSS F638, f. 33a. However, both MSS Z515, f. 71a and F3488, f. 243b ap- pear to have al-ghibṭa meaning a state of happiness or we… »