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« has a commanding view over things, as was seen in Tustarī’s explanation of the ‘point of transcendency (maṭlaʿ)’ in his discussion of four levels of meaning in the verses of the Qurʾān. See above IC, p. 2. »
« n1, 215, 221, 222, 223, 226, 227 n8, 228, 229, 231 and n2, 233, 240, 258, 259, 265, 272, 278, 280, 284, 289, 299, 300 nn7 and 10, 304, 312 n4, 314, 316. See also Resurrection; Paradise; Hell; reckoning; accounting; recom… »
« refer to the highest reaches of Paradise. On ʿIlliyyīn, see also Ghazālī’s Iḥyāʾ ʿulūm al-dīn, Kitāb Dhikr al-mawt, trans. Winter, p. 137 and 237, n. A. 7 Compare a ḥadīth of the prophet cited by Ṭabarī in his commentary… »
« is He, for what He had granted me.”’9 Sahl said: The aspirations (himam) of mystics reach the veils, where they stop and knock and are given admission. They enter and offer greetings, upon which He confers upon them His… »
« Ibn ʿAbbās said: God sent down the Qurʾān according to four ways of reading (aḥruf):2 the lawful (ḥalāl) and the unlawful (ḥarām), ignorance of which nobody is excused; the interpretation (tafsīr) according to which th… »
« of remembrance of God, 168–9 ritual, after menstruation or childbirth, 140 of self, 19 n44, 125 n9, 258 n7 is of seven kinds, 60 through trials, 258 n7 through wines of Paradise, 260 Q qaḍāʾ (decree, divine), 155, 210. S… »
« Lord, they would surely have received nourishment from above them and from beneath their feet… That is, if they acted according to what God revealed to Muḥammad , and if you acted according to it, you would attain this… »
« This means that He hastens the recompense for their [outwardly] showing faith, and [inwardly] keeping secret their disbelief, by withdrawing His protection and grace from them, and by augmenting their wealth and offsprin… »
« rain; and [by] the earth that cracks open [outwardly means] through [the growth of] plants (bi’l-nabāt). In its inner meaning, [vs. 11] refers to the heart which returns to a state of regret (nadam) after sinning, while… »
« religion of, 11, 43, 84 taqwā at level of, 166 ism pl. asmāʾ, xviii, 107, 220. See also name(s) ʿiṣma (divine protection, from error or sin), xxxiii, xxxiv, 2, 14, 42, 49, 50 n48, 62, 72, 95, 96, 116, 128, 148, 151, 165,… »
« al-ghayr min aḥadin wa yasqam, whereas the published edition has wa yashfī al-ghayr min alamin wa yasqam, which is what we have translated here. »
« they will be made to feel when they look upon the generous treatment (ikrām) and honour (iʿzāz) that those who professed His oneness [enjoy]. 5 It is not entirely clear what is meant by ‘secret’ here, but, given the co… »
« n15, 132 n8, 176 and n8, 188, 243, 322 n15. See also miracle(s) charity (ṣadaqa), 135, 149, 161. See also almsgiving chastity, 137 children, 109, 234 choice / choosing / being chosen, election (ikhtiyār, istikhlāṣ), 28,… »
« self (nafs al-rūḥ), and the intellect (ʿaql).4 Do you not notice how He says: [75:10] On that day man will say, ‘Where is the escape? That is, the one who denies the Day of Resurrection says, when the two lights are brou… »
« believe that Abraham could have actually mistaken the star, the moon and the sun for his Lord. On this issue in the exegesis on 6:76–80, see Norman Calder, ‘Tafsīr from Ṭabarī to Ibn Kathīr” in G. R. Hawting and A. K. Sh… »
« Davies. Lebanon, 1980. Nīsābūrī, Muḥammad b. ʿAbd Allāh Abū ʿAbd Allāh al-Ḥākim al-. Mustadrak ʿalā al-Ṣaḥīḥayn, ed. Muṣtafā ʿAbd al-Qādir ʿAṭā. Beirut, 1996. Nūrī, Abū al-Ḥusayn al-. Maqāmāt al-qulūb, edited with introd… »
« light.8 Whoever truly desires [God’s] love must follow him. God said to His Prophet : Say: ‘If you love God, follow me, and God will love you’ [3:31]. Thus has He made love [consist] of following him [the Prophet], and… »
« the ‘meeting of the two seas’ (majmaʿ al-baḥrayn). Having reached there, he and his servant find that the fish that they had brought in a basket for their breakfast miraculously swims away. Retracing their steps, they en… »
« But God knows best. 1 The Qurʾān alludes to the two annual migrations of the Quraysh, which Tustarī explains in his commentary on the next verse. 310 »
« own heart at rest.’ This was because he was called the ‘intimate friend’ (al-Khalīl) even in the ‘Time of Ignorance’ (Jāhiliyya).95 And as we said, his words ‘that my heart may be reassured’ mean ‘[that it may be reassur… »
« other than Him. 6 On nafs al-rūḥ and nafs al-ṭabʿ in Tustarī’s understanding of the inner make-up of the human being, see above IT, pp. xxxviiiff. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 84 His words: [9:32] They desire to extinguish God’s li… »
« are various words for different forms of fear [of God], such as khawf, khashy and waraʿ (these are discussed later in the commentary by Tustarī), and therefore we are translating the word taqwā in cases such as this as ‘… »
« Sunna. He only established the Sunna of earning for them due to their weakness, after they fell from the rank of trust (tawakkul), which was his state of being. However he did not demote them from the rank of seeking a l… »
« Him, for truly it is through mindfulness of God that a person may attain God’s favour and admittance into Paradise, abide in His vicinity, and triumph with a tremendous victory. Indeed the Prophet said, ‘Whoever correc… »