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« attributes, of God qalb pl. qulūb (heart), xxxviii, xl, xlii, xliii, xliv, li, lvii, lix, 16, 18, 19, 20 n54, 29, 32, 38, 54, 70, 83, 116, 120 and n7, 133, 135, 151, 157, 160, 165, 168, 174, 181 and n8, 186, 193, 198, 20… »
« words intervene: is for yourselves, for then you are expending, desiring only God’s face, which recalls Sahl’s specifying that the spending should be for [God’s] purposes and desiring His good pleasure, in his allusion t… »
« tongue; and abomination (munkar), refers to the committing of transgressions in the form of actions. He admonishes you, means He instructs you in the finest conduct (adab), and draws your attention to the highest awarene… »
« 4 These words form part of an exhortation to the believers. The whole verse [8:46] reads: And obey God and His Messenger, and do not quarrel with one another, lest you falter, and your strength fade; and be patient. Sure… »
« not righteousness that you turn your faces to the East and to the West. True righteousness is [that of] the one who believes in God and the Last Day and the angels and the Book and the prophets, and who gives of his subs… »
« sense of punishment, and also ‘discipline’ in the sense of training, refining, educating, hence the noun adab, meaning ‘culture’, ‘propriety’ or ‘manners’, comes from this verb. What Tustarī may be implying here is that… »
« through the practice of spiritual disciplines and through divine grace, the self may reach the level of being the ‘self at peace’ (nafs muṭmaʾinna), and, according to the doctrines of some Sufis, even beyond that to othe… »
« doubtful matters. His words: [8:37] In order that God may separate the wicked from the good… He [Sahl] said: Wickedness (khabīth) takes different forms: it may be disbelief (kufr), hypocrisy (nifāq), or grave sins (kabāʾ… »
« He said: Death has a specific (khāṣṣ) and a general (ʿāmm) meaning.9 The general [meaning of] death is the death of the physical body (khilqa) and [its] natural form (jibilla). The specific [meaning] 6 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘K… »
« in man/ hearts known by God, 45, 301 of Qurʾān, xxxi, 12 received from God, 120 from a secret to a secret, 20 between servant and God, 98, 248 seeker(s) (murīd pl. murīdūn), of God, xxix, xxxii, liv, 66 and n16, 77, 239.… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [54:1] The Hour has drawn near and the moon has split. During the time of the Messenger of God , when it was cleft into two segments, such that one segment disappeared behind Mount al-Ḥirāʾ. T… »
« lights of faith gushing from, 282 Miʿrāj of. See Index III, Miʿrāj name of, inscribed on every leaf of Paradise, 93 nation of, 173. See also Index III, nation offspring of Adam, 285 possessing moment with God, 294 Praise… »
« 1979), p. 436 and ʿAjlūnī, Kashf al-khafāʾ, vol. 2, p. 291. 5 Added on the basis of Z515, f. 96b, F638, f. 45a and F3488, f. 273a. 6 MSS Z515, f. 96b and F3488, f. 273a precede this clause with an aqīmū al-dīn, ‘that the… »
« against it is sought through the recitation of the Qurʾān and remembrance [of God] (dhikr).’ His words: [22:54] …so that they may believe therein and their hearts may be humbled to Him… He said: True faith (ṣidq al-īmān)… »
« waiting for relief with patience is, 98 without knowledge, 62 worshipper(s) (ʿābid pl. ʿibād / ʿubbād / ʿābidūn), xlv, xlvi, 35, 109, 122, 130, 194, 321 abiding in stations of, 222 appearance of, 310 of calf, 75, devout,… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [90:1] I swear by this city, He said: That is, Mecca. [90:2] and you have free disposal of this city; This means: ‘On the day of the conquest of Mecca, We made it legitimate for you, so that you… »
« leads to remembrance of God, lvi, 24, at level of islām and of īmān, 166 perfection in, 299 and trust, lvi, 237 miracle(s), of prophets (muʿjiza), xx n52, 176 n8. See also charismatic gift(s) Miʿrāj (miraculous ascension… »
« the breasts is as in His words, ‘who whispers in the breasts of people — whether they be of jinn or mankind [114:5, 6], meaning within the breasts of jinn and men alike. The whispering of the lower self is within the h… »
« (ṣuḍūr) in good repair, let not anything be in them other than [awareness of] the Hereafter⸣;7 if you want to preserve your tongues, do not let your prayer on them be other than truthfulness (ṣidq); and if you wish to pr… »
« whole life. To show endurance is to fulfil God’s commandments, while to prefer others over oneself is to prefer God above all that is other than Him. Furthermore, through opposition they were dispossessed of their selves… »
« the expression ‘vision of his heart’ (baṣar qalbihi), Tustarī appears to adhere to the view that it was an inner vision of the heart. In our translation of Tustarī’s commentary on 53:1–13, reference has been made in vari… »
« commanding of what is right (amr bi’l-maʿrūf) and the forbidding of what is wrong (nahy ʿan al-munkar). There was a man with us in Basra who had a high [spiritual] station, and it was an imperative obligation on him that… »
« are things to which he must adhere: he must leave behind the whisperings of the Enemy [i.e. Satan] and abide by the intellect in what it restrains him from; he must give up concern for the affairs of this world and leave… »
« 37 n143. See also tafsῑr; taʾwῑl; interpretation istiqāma (rectitude), xxxv, 53, 117, 155, 160, 178, 224, 268, 270. See also rectitude istirāḥa (ease), in Hereafter, 231. See also Hereafter; Paradise istislām (complete s… »