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Plus de 13 000 extraits des grands maîtres de la tradition soufie.
« as ‘pleasure’, but Tustarī uses the pair of terms, ḥaẓẓ and murād below in the sense, perhaps, of the self having its own ‘vested interest’ in the heart. »
« worst enemy,23 and that He had created it so that he conduct it [on the path] to Him, accord- ing to his knowledge of it, regarding notions (khawāṭir)24 and impulses (himam) [which arise in it], and that he [Adam] conduc… »
« way (ṭarīq)5 to Him through faith (īmān) in Him. However, your rectitude (istiqāma) will not 1 See above, Tustarī’s commentary on 57:6, and IT, pp. xxxix–xl. 2 Added on the basis of all the MSS: Z515, f. 129a, F638, f. 6… »
« death of the Prophet he was appointed by ʿUmar as leader of his clan. He fought alongside ʿAlī at the Battle of Ṣiffīn, and spoke out strongly in defence of the city of Medina when it was threatened by the forces of Yazī… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [95:4] Verily We created man in the best of forms. He said: That is, in the finest stature and form. [95:5] Then We reduced him to the lowest of the low, That is, We transform him from state to… »
« 21 In this passage Tustarī is showing that what is desirable is the knowledge of whether one is obeying or disobeying God, and he is connecting this to knowledge of one’s state, which he elsewhere defines as a person’s k… »
« possessed from God, Exalted is He. The Prophet also said: ‘If gnosis (maʿrifa) had remained firmly rooted in the heart of David and he had not slipped into negligence, he would not have fallen into disobedience.’ By… »
« Things only have access to someone who is idle (fārigh). However, evil suggestions (waswasa) will not reach a person whose heart is occupied with God; such a one is in [a state] of continu- ous increase. So protect yours… »
« you with the robe of His prophethood and His messengership, that He might guide [you] by them [these distinctions] to proximity (qurb) with Him, and to His unicity (waḥdāniyya). He said: It also has another interpretatio… »
« they were to expound the scripture to people, and not conceal it. 52 ʿAlī Abū Bakr al-Haythamī, Majmaʿ al-zawāʾid wa manbaʿ al-fawāʾid (Cairo, 1933–4), vol. 2, p. 258; Sulaymān b. Aḥmad al-Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-kabīr (M… »
« one of the many names given to Sūrat al-Fātiḥa, on account of the fact that it is said to contain the whole Qurʾān. See E. Geoffroy and F. Daftary, ‘Umm al-kitāb’, EI2, vol. x, p. 854. »
« and understanding (fahm) [at that time]; …and more upright with respect to speech, that is, firmer in [spiritual] station (athbatu rutbatan). It is also said, more correct in speech because of being further away from ost… »
« in the commentary on the following verse to the light of Muḥammad shrouding the lote tree. 7 Significantly, the MSS have the addition of ay mā yaghshā before al-ṣidra min nūr Muḥammad fī ʿibādatihi, meaning that Tustarī… »
« The first thing that a novice is instructed to do is to change his reprehensible actions into praiseworthy ones, which is repentance. [However] his repentance is not complete until he imposes silence upon himself, and hi… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [77:35] On that Day they will be speechless. He said: Nobody will speak for himself by [presenting an] argument (bi-ḥujja), unless it be by the exhib- iting of helplessness (ʿajz) and servanthoo… »
« God. 5 All three MSS (Z515, f. 85a, F638, f. 39b and F3488, f. 259a) have ilayhi following yaṣilu. 6 Bayhaqī, Shuʿab al-īmān, vol. 6, p. 298. 7 Not al-kabīra as in the published edition. 8 Ibn Ḥanbal, al-Musnad, vol. 4,… »
« [94:2] [and did We not] relieve you of the burden? He said: This means: ‘We removed from you any acquiescence (sukūn) in other than Us, [that might arise] from the desire (himma) of the natural self, and We have made you… »
« due to the fear of His abhorrent punishment. His words: [49:9] If two parties of believers fall to fighting, you [believers] make peace between them… He said: The outward meaning of the verse is as those specialised in e… »
« ‘Be off!’ means, ‘Get far away from me!’ ‘Be off!’ is said to dogs and signifies total expulsion and banishment. In this way did He punish them [the inhabitants of Hell] in the final punishment that He gave them. Thus He… »
« His words: [26:80] and when I am sick, it is He who cures me, He said: This means: ‘If I am stirred into acting by other than Him for other than Him, He protects me [from carrying out that action], and if I incline towar… »
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« from that prostration God created an immense crystal-like column of light, that was inwardly and outwardly ⸢translucent⸣,33 and within it was the essence of Muḥammad . Then it stood in service before the Lord of the Wor… »
« is thus, among Sufi commentators, one of the early apologists for Jacob’s intense grieving in separation from Joseph. Several of the early comments included in Sulamī’s Ḥaqāʾiq al-tafsīr, for example, state that Jacob lo… »
« (farāʾiḍ), whose oil (duhn) is sincerity (ikhlāṣ) and whose light (nūr) is the light of [spiritual] attainment (ittiṣāl).6 Whenever the sincerity increases in purity, the lamp increases in bright- ness (ḍiyāʾ); and whene… »