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« would become sweeter than honey.’5 But God, Glorified and Exalted is He, knows best. 5 Mundhirī, al-Targhīb, vol. 4, p. 299. 265 »
« bounty; Possessed of a richness [which makes Him] Independent from all (al-Ghanī ʿan al-kull). [40:4] None dispute the signs of God…4 That is, [they do not dispute] concerning His essence (dhāt), or omnipotence (qudra),… »
« When asked about these words Sahl said: Patience here [means] fasting, while prayer [means] the bond (waṣla) of gnosis (maʿrifa). He whose prayer — this being his bond [with God] — is sound, will be exempt from accusatio… »
« to seduce him. Verse 24 states: And she certainly desired him, and he would have desired her, had it not been that he saw the proof of his Lord. Tustarī was evidently among those commentators who considered that Joseph d… »
« 35:6 161, 257 26:1 12 29:21 150 35:8 226 26:3 142 29:43 xliii, xliv, 6, 35:10 161 26:5 xxxi, 142 150 35:15 liv, 154, 161 26:78 142 29:45 150 35:32 xlv, 162 26:79 142 29:56 150 35:34 162 26:80 143 30:4 151 36:11 163 26:81… »
« 46 That is translating wa’l-mutaʿarriḍ which is in Z515 f. 33a and F3488, f. 207b. F638, f. 17a has al-taʿarruḍ with more or less the same meaning. 47 The story relates how God warned David that He would test him on a ce… »
« [6:165] … Surely your Lord is swift in punishment, and surely He is Forgiving, Merciful. He [Sahl] said: This refers to the punishment of the heart which is a cover and veil, so that it [the heart] inclines to that which… »
« me?’ He replied, ‘Yes.’ So he said, ‘Then I do not mind.’ ʿAlī b. Abī Ṭālib , used to say: ‘I and my self are nothing but a shepherd and his flock, each time he gathers them in on one side, they disperse from the other.… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [50:29] The word that comes from Me cannot be changed… That is, ‘What is within My prior knowledge does not change, so that it would become contrary to My pre-existing knowledge concerning it.’… »
« 3 Or ‘slave’. 4 Gaafar (PhD thesis, p. 224) explains that in Tustarī’s theology, God’s Will (or ‘Uncreated Will’, mashīʾa), is associated with His Knowledge, while God’s Volition (or ‘Creative Will’, irāda) is associated… »
« who are encompassed by Your mercy. Truly You erase what You will and establish [what You will] and the Mother of the Book is with You.’ His words: [2:204] …Yet he is the most stubborn in altercation.85 That is, [he is] e… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [79:37, 38] as for him who was rebellious and preferred the life of this world, He said: That is, he forswore the rights (ḥuqūq) of God, was ungrateful for His blessings and preferred this wor… »
« al-Qurṭubī, ed. Aḥmad Baraddūnī. Beirut, 1985. Qushayrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karīm b. Hawāzan al-. Kitāb al-Miʿrāj, ed. ʿAlī Ḥusayn ʿAbd al-Qādir. Cairo, 1964. ———. al-Risāla al-Qushayriyya fī ʿilm al-taṣawwuf. Cairo, 1… »
« conquest of Mecca, fighting alongside the Muslims in subsequent battles. He died in Medina. Abū Yaʿqūb, Yūsuf b. Hamdān al-Sūsī (d. end third/ninth century). A Sufi from Sūs in Khūzistān and the master of Abū Yaʿqūb al-N… »
« translation of this passage. We have found this only in MS F3488, f. 191b. The other two MSS (Z515, f. 14a, F638, f. 8a), as well as the printed edition, have nūr al-nafs. »
« 259, 261, 279 n2, 282 importance for Tustarī, xxx sunna pl. sunan (established practice or norm), 17 n33, 176, 270 n1 supplication(s) (duʿāʾ / daʿwa), xxix, xliii, l, 11 n7, 12, 24, 34 and n118, 44, 45, 89, 98 n20, 154 a… »
« 1 The former title is used in the published edition and in Z515, f. 96a and the latter in the two Fātiḥ MSS. 2 One community here being understood to mean, ‘If God willed He could have made everyone part of a community o… »
« tents. However, He has unveiled them to the hearts of those who have gnosis of Him (ʿārifūn), thereby causing them to attain it [sincerity]. His words, Exalted is He: [51:22] And in heaven is your provision, as [also] th… »
« them with people whom He loves and who love Him, who are humble towards the believers, stern towards the disbelievers and who strive in God’s way without fearing anyone’s reproach…[5:54]. 4 As stated above, IC, p. 2, n.… »
« widād; ḥubb; maḥabba; love Y yaqīn (certainty), xli, xlviii, liii, lvi, 51, 58, 67, 68, 93 n13, 103, 104, 158,163, 188, 192, 226, 241, 298. See also certainty anwār al- (lights of certainty), xlvii n205 ʿayn al- (eye of… »
« xlvii, 42 and n4, 47 and nn36–37, 128, 150 concerned with acts, 298 of / derived from God, xxvi, xlvii and nn204– 205, 6, 42 and n4, 47 and nn36–37, 150 discussed, xliii–xlix of God, His days, His commandments 128 and n1… »
« Al-Rabīʿ b. Khaytham was sitting on his porch one day when a stone came flying at him and struck his forehead making a gash in it, upon which he said, ‘Truly, you have been admonished, O Ibn Khaytham!’ Then he entered hi… »
« Cairo, 2005. Sharīf al-Raḍī, Muḥammad b. al-Ḥusayn. Nahjul balagha: Sermons, Letters, and Sayings of Imam Ali. Qum, 1981. Shāṭibī, Ibrāhīm b. Mūsā al-. al-Muwāfaqāt fī uṣūl al-aḥkām, ed. M. Ḥasanayn Makhlūf. Cairo, 1922.… »
« Sahl was asked: ‘What does God do with His servant when He loves him?’ He said: He inspires him to seek forgiveness for his shortcomings and show gratitude for blessings he has received. Truly, they desired with a [whole… »