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« few’, he warned them, ‘Do not wish to encounter the enemy, rather ask for safety (ʿāfiya) from God, Exalted is He’,45 from dependency on your own devising (tadbīr) in any situation, and from [being unaware of your] needi… »
« they lifted up his bier it proceeded to [fly up] and flutter above his bier while the people wept until they brought him to his grave. There it perched nearby until he was buried and the people had departed from his grav… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [79:4] By those that race forward, He said: This means the spirits of the believers which raced to be the first in [doing] good (khayr) and [acting in] conformity (muwāfaqa), and raced to be the… »
« thabāt (firmness, stability), 42, 43 n13, 213. See also tamkῑn; stability thawāb (reward), 11, 103, 197, 290. See also reward(s) theology Muslim, xxxiii n131 scholars of, Sālimiyya viewed as, xxii n68 in Tustarῑ’s Tafsῑr… »
« That is, ‘Do not rely on anything regarding your religion except my Sunna.’ »
« 69 n29, 72, 73 n12, 78, 81 and n1, 83, 85, 86 and n17, 97, 100 n4, 101 and n8, 104, 105, 106, Index III: Subjects and Technical Terms 373 115 n1, 117 n10, 119, 121, 122 and n16, 125, 126, 129, 131, 134, 137, 138 and nn7… »
« been crucified (maṣlūb) with his head fixed in a direction away from the qibla. He said to him, ‘Where is that tongue with which you used to pronounce with all honesty: “There is no god save God?”’ Then he added, ‘Oh God… »
« (jamʿ), or conjunction (ittiṣāl). Rather, the meaning of the servant’s attainment (ittiṣāl)42 of his Master refers to the [true] locating (mawḍiʿ) of his realisation of the divine oneness, and his obedience to God and Hi… »
« irrefutable proofs and wondrous signs (āyāt muʿjiza). His words: [49:7] …He has made disbelief, mischief and disobedience hateful to you… 1 That is, what He ordained for them in pre-eternity. 2 In other words we cannot c… »
« Sharīḥ replied, ‘[It should be] you marvel (ʿajibta)’, for truly God does not marvel at anything. The only one who marvels is one who does not know.’ Then Shaqīq said, ‘I informed Ibrāhīm of this, and he said, “For sure,… »
« 1 The order of the verses in the commentary is thus in the MSS. 2 Verses 36–9 comprise things which the Prophet is commanded to say to the disbelievers, particularly those who have been corrupted by their wealth, and ass… »
« theophany. See, for example, Sulamī, Bayān laṭāʾif al-miʿrāj, trans. Colby, Nos 13, 15 and 45, and translator’s comment to the latter p. 126. Some commentators contrasted the two prophets’ experiences in order to illustr… »
« 6 The rest of the verse reads: …and giving to kinsfolk, and He forbids lewdness, abomination and aggression. He admonished you so that you might remember. 243 »
« serve devotedly until the latter’s death. Several ḥadīth are narrated by him. ʿUbāda b. al-Ṣāmit b. Qays al-Khazrajī (d. ca 34/654–5). A Companion of the Prophet who took part in the battles of ʿAqaba and Badr and was al… »
« the trusts of your hearing, sight, tongue, private parts, your outward self and your inner self, which He presented to you. If you do not safeguard them, you betray God and God does not love the treacherous [8:58]. Ibn Ḥ… »
« ḥayra / taḥayyur (bewilderment), 122, 250, 281 and n6. See also dahsha; bewilderment al-Ḥayy (the Living), 175 and n2. See also name(s), of God ḥaẓẓ pl. ḥuẓūẓ (share, portion, [self] interest, pleasure), 15, 69 and n29,… »
« everything save God, Exalted is He. Do you not see how when the angel Gabriel asked him, ‘Do you need anything?’ He replied, ‘From you, no.’ He did not depend on anyone save Him, in any situation.13 His words, Exalted… »
« of Resurrection…’ He said: He gives you life in the bellies of your mothers, then He causes you to die through ignorance, and then without doubt He gathers you together from the first to the last of you. 5 On firāsa see… »
« Look what He has done with you and how He has elevated you!’14 However, this did not affect Sahl and he said, ‘It is He who is sought, He who is sought!’ His words, Exalted is He: [19:76] And God increases in guidance th… »
« the nation of Muḥammad , cannot be fathomed. His words: [39:54] ‘And turn [penitently] to your Lord, and submit to Him….’ 16 That is, ‘Return to Him through supplication (duʿāʾ), and by humbly beseeching (taḍarruʿ) and… »
« said to him: ‘If your heart is weighed down because of your proximity to the disbelievers and the calumny of that which they are ascribing to Us in the way of adversaries, rivals and partners through their ignorance and… »
« the heart [in God].’23 Then he was asked, ‘Is such tranquil repose [in God] obligatory (farḍ)24 or the knowledge by which it is attained?’ He answered, ‘It is a [kind of] knowledge, which I am calling tranquil repose, an… »
« 2 The second part of the twofold attestation of faith, after the profession of the divine Unity, ‘I bear witness that there is no god save God (lā ilāha illā’Llāh)’, is the following: ‘I bear witness that Muḥammad is the… »
« merciful to you [4:29] in that He forbade transgression to you, so that you might not perish, which is further expounded in His words, Exalted is He: 1 The word niḥla can mean both a gift and a religion, so it is synonym… »