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« His Creative Will and Omnipotence, not in their existence but in their effects. But, as Gaafar explains, Tustarī also sug- gests that the Uncreated Will of God is an immediate stage that succeeds His Knowledge. In his Ki… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [106:1] For the security of the Quraysh, He said: This means: for the safety sought by the Quraysh for their two journeys.1 [106:2] [their security during] the winter journey, to Shām [Syria], a… »
« Forbearance (ṣabr) is on four levels: forbearance in obedience (ṭāʿa), forbearance with suffer- ing (alam), forbearance with pain (taʾallum), and lastly, the reprehensible kind of forbearance, which is that of persistenc… »
« Index III: Subjects and Technical Terms 391 246, 251, 276, 292, 302. See also meaning(s); interpretation; muḥkam and mutashābih; Basmala aspects or ways of reading (aḥruf, sing. ḥarf), 41 and n2 as an attribute of the Es… »
« the Book, i.e. the Jews and Christians) concerning their conduct and their responses to the Scripture. In full it reads: It belongs not to any mortal that God should give him the Book, the Judgement, prophethood, then th… »
« prayer (ṣalāt) is his cave [of refuge] (kahf), fasting (ṣiyām) is his garden [or Paradise] (janna), charity (ṣadaqa) is his source of liberation (fikāk), truthfulness (ṣidq) is his vizier, shame (ḥayāʾ) is his emir, and… »
« in those two situations, i.e. inducement and intimidation. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 256 It has been related that a man came to Jesus the son of Mary and said, ‘O Teacher of Good (muʿallim al-khayr), how can I become mindful o… »
« awtād; quṭb spiritual path. See path: spiritual spiritual striving. See striving; struggle stability, being unshakeable (tamkīn, thabāt), xlviii, 42, 185 n11, 213 n9. See also empowerment in faith, 19 and n39, 43 n13 sta… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [57:3] He is the First and the Last… He said: The greatest name of God is alluded to in six verses at the beginning of Sūrat al-Ḥadīd start- ing from the verse: He is the First and the Last, the… »
« life of devotion and celibacy. An important figure in early Sufism, she placed great emphasis on divine love, producing a number of eloquent prayers and poems to this effect. She had many disciples, including Sufyān al-T… »
« Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim, Aḥmad b. ʿAmr. Kitāb al-Zuhd, ed. ʿAbd al-ʿAlī ʿAbd al-Ḥamīd Ḥāmid. Cairo, 1988. Ibn Abī Ḥātim, ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Rāzī. ʿIlal al-ḥadīth, ed. Muḥibb al-Dīn al-Khaṭīb. Beirut, 1985. Ibn Abī Shayba, Abū Bakr… »
« This means: ⸢that which shrouded⸣ the lote tree (ay mā yaghshā al-shajara)7 was from the light of Muḥammad as he worshipped. It could be likened to golden moths, which God sets in motion towards Him from the wonders of H… »
« ask Him for the next day’s provision (rizq), your equity has left you, for the heart cannot bear two concerns (hammān).4 Equity between you and other people is when you take from them with the attitude that you are recei… »
« 130 Tafsīr al-Tustarī innermost secret (sarīra) in a good state with God, Exalted is He, and have detached themselves wholeheartedly from all besides Him. His words, Exalted is He: [21:106] …Indeed there is in this [Qurʾ… »
« 8 These are words said by Joseph, after the king (on his insistence) has summoned the women of Egypt, who exonerate him. See also p. 96, n. 11 below. 9 For Tustarī’s discussion of nafs muṭmaʾinna see his commentary on 2:… »
« He was asked, ‘Why is that?’, and he said, ‘It is like someone who is hungry asking for satiation, because the rank of the hungry is higher.’13 His words: [37:143] And had he not been one of those who glorify God,14 He s… »
« Qurʾānic exegesis and well-known for his excellent memory and knowledge of genealogies and historical traditions. He was a pupil of Ḥasan al-Baṣrī and Ibn Sīrīn. He is thought to have espoused the doctrine of the Qadariy… »
« 4 Istirjāʿ being the utterance of the words: ‘Truly, we belong to God and truly to Him we will return’ (innā li’Llāhi wa-innā ilayhi rājiʿūn), which words are customarily said on hearing of the death of someone. 5 Wuhayb… »
« as He should be known), 150, 173 taḥqīq al- (realisation of truth), 191 ṭarīq al- (path of truth), 139 al-yaqῑn. See yaqῑn: ḥaqq al- ḥarakāt sing. ḥaraka (activity, movement, commotion), 128, 171, 197 wa-sukūn (activity… »
« tafarrud (being solely devoted to God, isolation of the self for God), 125, 321. See also tafrīd; munfaridūn; mutafarridūn; seclusion tafrῑd (being solely devoted to / isolated from all other than God), 125 n9. See also… »
« 13 MS Z515, f. 53a only has ‘every Muslim man and woman’ (muslim wa muslima). The ḥadīth is listed in Ṭabarānī, al- Muʿjam al-awsaṭ, vol. 2, p. 289 and vol. 6, p. 97; Ṭabarānī, al-Muʿjam al-ṣaghīr, vol. 1, pp. 36, 58. »
« [44:10] …the day when the heaven will produce a visible smoke… He said: The smoke in this world is hardness of the heart and heedlessness of (His) remembrance,2 and there is no punishment severer in this world than the c… »
« That is, ‘Do not keep abundant remembrance on [your] tongue, whilst being negligent concern- ing vigilance (murāqaba) in [your] heart.’ His words, Exalted is He: [20:44] And speak to him gentle words... He said: It was r… »
« Tafsīr al-Tustarī 86 He [also] said: Give up all idle talk (qāl wa qīl). In this day and age, there are three things which you must do: repent to God, Mighty and Majestic is He, from what you are aware of between yoursel… »