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« self (riyāḍat al-nafs)140 concerning things which are reprehensible (makrūhāt);141 the second is emptying one’s heart of any love for carnal lusts (shahawāt); and the third is standing guard (qiyām) over one’s heart by w… »
« Mālik ⸢cried out and⸣10 said, ‘O my Lord! How generous you are! All humanity are your servants, yet you have assigned them work to do and promised them a reward for it.’ His words: [9:112] Those who repent, those who wor… »
« [2:237], meaning: ‘Do not abandon kindness between yourselves’; and likewise in Sūrat Ṭā Hā, but he [Moses] forgot [20:88], meaning: ‘He has abandoned the Covenant’. Another example occurs in Sūrat al-Sajda, in the words… »
« have been the second adult convert to Islam. Initially the slave of the Qurayshī elder Umayya b. Khalaf, he endured severe persecution by his master on account of his faith, until he was freed by Abū Bakr. He became a lo… »
« 124 20 Ṭā Hā His words, Exalted is He: [20:7] …He knows [that which you keep] secret and that which is yet more hidden (akhfā). He said: That which is yet more hidden than a secret is something which the servant does not… »
« are, without seeking to interpret them, an approach known as bi-lā kayf, meaning literally ‘without how’. This doctrine, which is said to go back to Mālik b. Anas (d. 179/795), became particularly associated with the Ash… »
« al-Karīm (the Generous), lii, 55, 143 al-Khāliq (the Creator). See Creator al-Malik (the King), 175 al-Manīʿ (the Forbidding, Impenetrable, Mighty), 241 most beautiful, God’s names are, 78 al-Mubdiʾ (the Intitiator), 151… »
« unless there is some deficiency or ill-effect (iḥdāth) in them. However, even then the root of his actions, namely the saying which attests to God’s oneness, is not removed, just as the winds shake the branches of the da… »
« servanthood (ikhlāṣ fi’l-ʿubūdiyya). All of these together amount to God’s forces. His words: [48:8] Indeed We have sent you as a witness, and a bearer of glad tidings and a warner. 1 The verbal root f-t-ḥ means to open,… »
« people [90:16].11 His words, Exalted is He: [90:17] (while being one of those who believe and who) enjoin one another to steadfastness and enjoin one another to compassion. He said: That is, steadfastness (ṣabr) in keepi… »
« can be coerced so that he can return to God, Mighty and Majestic is He, and place his dilemma before Him. Then he should force on himself and on his heart a state of rejection [of that sin] which should never leave him,… »
« Ḥammād b. Yazīd b. Dirham al-Azdī al-Jahḍamī (d. 179/795). A scholar who is said to have memo- rised four thousand ḥadīths. Ḥasan al-Baṣrī al-(d. 110/728–9). An important personality in the early religious history of Isl… »
« Resurrection Night, of Great Merit or Night of Power (Laylat al-Qadr), 29 and n90, 34, 186, 297 niʿma pl. niʿam (blessing), 61, 73, 84, 215, 243, 280, 283. See also blessing(s) nisyān (forgetfulness), 17. See also forget… »
« person has sunk low through vices (ashrār), whilst being quite unaware of [what he is doing]. Sinking low [through] vices means a person’s being deprived of [divine] protection (ʿiṣma) and being left to his own power (ḥa… »
« Gaafar, M. K. I. ‘The Sufi Doctrine of Sahl al-Tustarī, with a Critical Edition of his Risālat al-ḥurūf.’ PhD thesis. Cambridge University, 1966. (See also Jaʿfar). Garrido Clemente, Pilar. ‘El Tradado de las Letras (Ris… »
« edition in this case, since bayyannāhā appears to refer back to the trials (fitan). 8 On the divine ruse, see above Tustarī’s commentary on 2:41 and p. 20, n. 47. See also 3:8 and p. 42, n.10. 9 In Sufism, the technical… »
« apply himself instead to study and devotion. ʿAbd al-ʿAzīz b. Rafīʿ al-Asadī, Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Makkī al-Ṭāʾifī (d. 130/747) A narrator of ḥadīth from among the generation of Followers, he was accredited with trustworthi… »
« equity in, lv, 163 fundamentals of, li, 45 through the good, 151 for the heart, 68 hearts singled out for, 200 house of, oldest, 133 in innermost secret (sirr), 163 intentions in, 277 joy of, 147 of Muḥammad during, Miʿr… »
« 276, 284, 289, 291 n1, 294 and n7 self-abasement (dhull / dhilla / tadhallul), liv, 23, 114, 136, 163, 241. See also humility pure servanthood is, 161 Tafsīr al-Tustarī 396 senses, in Qurʾānic verses. See meaning(s) sepa… »
« ‘Whoever abstains from (zahada) the world for forty days in veracity and sincerity (ṣādiqan wa mukhliṣan), will have charismatic gifts (karāmāt) manifested to Him from God, Mighty and Majestic is He. But if [such gifts]… »
« Tafsīr al-Tustarī 328 the Ḥanbalī qāḍī Ghulām al-Khalīl. He is credited with being one of the first to produce a systematic presentation of the theory of Sufi experience in writing. Labīd, Abū ʿAqīl b. Rabīʿa (d. 40/661)… »
« tion… He said: The servant will not experience the joy of faith until his knowledge vanquishes his ignorance, ⸢his [awareness of] the Hereafter dominates⸣ his heart, his compassion ⸢rules over his anger, and mercy is upo… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [62:2] It is He who sent to the unlettered [folk] a messenger from among them… He said: The unlettered are those who believed in Muḥammad and were connected to him through following (ittibāʿ)… »
« pure, as will your hearts and bodily members. Indeed, these are the fundamentals. He continued: Muḥammad b. Sawwār related from al-Thawrī that he said, ‘The degree of importance within the servant of [the reality] of “Th… »