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« His words, Exalted is He: [89:1] By the daybreak, He said: In its outward meaning, daybreak (fajr) refers to the dawn (subḥ). [89:2] and by the ten nights, His words: [In its outer meaning] it refers to the [first] ten n… »
« 2 Compare the commentary on 29:1, 2; 37:106; and 89:17 above. 3 Lit. ‘There is no behind to Him’. 4 This is a reference to Abū Jahl, who had tried to obstruct the Prophet when he was at prayer. When the Prophet responded… »
« commentary on the Qurʾān. Zuhrī, Muḥammad b. Muslim b. ʿUbayd Allāh b. Shihāb al- (d. 124/742). A prominent scholar and renowned authority on ḥadīth among the third generation of Muslims in Medina. 333 Bibliography Prima… »
« in any of the MSS. MS Z515, f. 76a has adhalla ʿālā’l-nafs, which could easily be a misreading of idh lahu. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 134 Majestic is He, his heart acquiesces in the basest pleasures (huẓūẓ) of his lower self and… »
« [57:7] Believe in God and His Messenger, and expend out of that which He caused to come down to you… 1 Translating bi’l-maʿbūd on the basis of all three MSS: Z515, f. 111a, F638, f. 52b and F3488, f. 290a, instead of fī’… »
« as one who knows the divine lordliness (ʿālim bi’l-rubūbiyya), or who knows through the divine lordliness. He then describes the rabbāniyyūn as being of three kinds, each of which is connected to a different verse of the… »
« this, even though He reminded them of His omnipotence (qudra), in order that they might take a lesson [from it]. Then He says, Exalted is He: [88:17] Will they not consider the camels, how they are made? In its inner mea… »
« his Lord, not absent from Him. 5 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Marḍāʾ’, ‘Kitāb al-Riqāq’; Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-zawāʾid, vol. 10, p. 357. 6 [It] being the reward of Paradise. On the word awwāb having the sense of ‘repeatedly r… »
« (ṣaffār). The Ṣaffārid empire soon spread to include Khurasan and Fārs. ʿAmr tried to expand their empire by invading Transoxiana, but was defeated by the Sāmānid ruler, Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad (d. 279/892), who had ʿAmr sent t… »
« 243/857). He was also an authority on theology and law, which he studied with Abū Thawr (d. 240/855). In his mystical writings he elucidates the doctrines of tawḥīd (the oneness of God), fanāʾ (annihilation of the self i… »
« His words: [8:2] The believers are those whose hearts tremble [with awe], when God is mentioned… He [Sahl] said: Their [hearts] tremble from the fear of separation (firāq), and hence their bodily members humbly submit to… »
« 5 That which is in the Preserved Tablet (lawḥ maḥfūẓ) being here the Qurʾān, which is mentioned in the previous verse. See above 44:3 and p. 186, n. 1. On the Preserved Tablet see also IC, p. 5 and n. 22, and p. 27, n. 8… »
« the obligatory prayers as a whole, in the same way that Gabriel and others were singled out for mention among the host of the angels, due to a certain particularity. He continued: There is another reason, namely, that th… »
« respond by saying, ‘What do I care about people?’ He will say, ‘You have spoken rightly, so give up your seclusion, for they will put the cessation of your seclusion down to good judgement and sincerity.’ In this way in… »
« 2 Al-Wāḥidī in his Asbāb al-nuzūl (Louisville, KY: Royal Aal al-Bayt Institute for Islamic Thought and Fons Vitae, 2008) presents two opinions, one shared by Muqātil and al-Kalbī, who like Tustarī are of the view that th… »
« 1 The nature of this exemplary guidance is not specified here, but it could refer to the Prophet’s Sunna, guidance of the pious predecessors (salaf), or of a spiritual teacher. See above. IT, pp. liii–liv. 2 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥ… »
« (al-Laʿīn): I had no power over you except to call you, and you responded to my call [14:22]. His calling is at different levels. It may be to what is evil or it may be to what is good, just as the Prophet said, ‘Truly… »
« of maghāra, meaning cave. However, given the poem that follows, cave seems appropriate. 4 Ibn al-Jawzī, Dhamm al-hawā (Cairo, 1962), p. 346; Maḥmūd b. ʿUmar al-Zamakhsharī, Rabīʿ al-abrār wa-nuṣūṣ al- akhbār (Qum, 1989),… »
« intense longing for the meeting with God. Fatḥ b. ʿAlī al-Mawṣilī (also known as Abū Naṣr b. Saʿīd), (d. 220/835). A well-known Sufi and ascetic who knew Bishr al-Ḥāfī in Baghdad. It is said that on the day of ʿĪd al-Aḍḥ… »
« Kitāb al-Zuhd al-kabīr, vol. 2, p. 207, while in ʿAjlūnī, Kashf al-khafāʾ, vol. 2, p. 525, it is attributed to ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib, in Munāwī, Fayḍ al-qadīr, vol. 5, p. 56 it is said to be a ḥadīth of the Prophet, and in I… »
« Then Sahl said: Fear is male and hope is female, and if one iota of the fear of the fearful (khāʾifūn) were divided among the inhabitants of the earth, they would all attain eternal happiness by it. Then he was asked, ‘I… »
« On another occasion he said: That which is piercing is the heart of the believer, that is, it is resplendent (mushriq), purified of uncertainty (shakk), doubt (rayb) and misgiving which the whispering of the Enemy and th… »
« 190, 198. See also truthfulness among aspects of faith inscribed in hearts, 224 defined, 158–9 among four things appraised at resurrection, 160 people of, 68 in speech and action, 65 and n7 way of, 139 vices, li six to b… »
« prevent my servant from remembering Me.’ Hence, it is the same with whatever belongs to God, Exalted is He, and no one has any means to resist Him or withhold [anything from Him]. 1 The ʿĀd were an ancient Arab people to… »