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« Islam and the heart the locus of faith (īmān). See for example, Nūrī, Maqāmāt al-qulūb, p. 130; Maybudī, Kashf al-asrār, vol. 3, p. 557 and vol. 5, p. 333; and the treatise attributed to al-Ḥakīm al-Tirmidhī, Bayān al-fa… »
« mindfulness of God (taqwā) and certainty (yaqīn) may be compared to the two scales of a balance, while trust (tawakkul) is the pointer, by which it indicates any increase or decrease.3 Then it was asked of him : ‘What is… »
« xxxix, xl, xliv n184, 116, 120, 168, 181, 216 ʿārif pl. ʿārifūn / ʿurafāʾ (mystic, possessor of mystical knowledge, gnosis), xiii, xxxvii, xl, xliii, 24, 31, 58, 108, 172, 175, 208, 248, 297. See also maʿrifa; mystic(s)… »
« Seale, Morris S. Muslim Theology. London, 1964. Sezgin, Fuat. Geschichte des Arabischen Schrifttums. Leiden, 1967. Smith, Margaret. Studies in Early Mysticism in the Near and Middle East. London and New York, 1931. ———.… »
« duct]. The one who is sincere (khāliṣ) is he who [lives] for God, Exalted is He, with the full intention (irāda) of his heart, while the one who is correct (ṣawāb) is he who is on the path of the Sunna and [lives] in acc… »
« 2 That is, translating ḥarraka ʿalayhi according to all three MSS: Z515, f. 131b, F3488, f. 314a (in F638, f. 34b, the kāf is just visible), instead of jarat ʿalayhi in the published edition. 3 In other words, on their i… »
« 121 the sweetness he had experienced in communion with Him, so that he said, ‘O my Lord what is that Hebrew voice12 from You which has seized my heart so! Indeed, I have heard the voice of the caring mother, and the soun… »
« Lewisohn, Leonard, ed. The Heritage of Sufism. 3 vols. Oxford, 1999. Lings, Martin. Muḥammad. Cambridge, 2005. Lory, Pierre. Les Commentaires ésotériques du Coran d’ après ʿAbd al-Razzâq al-Qâshânî. Paris, 1980. ———. Alc… »
« 1922. Translated by Herbert Mason as The Passion of al-Ḥallāj, Mystic and Martyr of Islam. 4 vols. Princeton, 1982. Bibliography 341 Mayer, Tobias. ‘Theology and Sufism.’ In T. J. Winter, ed., The Cambridge Companion to… »
« but the nature of the lower self (nafs) is ignorance. The natural disposition of [human] nature is [to make] pretentious claims (daʿwā). His words, Exalted is He: [12:36] And there entered the prison with him two [chival… »
« maqām al- (station of opposition), 189 mukhālifūn (people of opposition), to God and Prophet, 147, 221 mukhliṣ pl. mukhliṣūn (the sincere, devoted to God), liii, lvi, 104 and 104–5 n4, 158, 163, 188, 198. See also ikhlāṣ… »
« 2:134 23 2:258 30 2:1 xxxi, 12 2:141 23 2:260 xxxvii, xlviii, 2:2 13 2:143 23 29, 30 2:3 xxxiv, 13–14 2:148 23 2:268 35 2:5 xlviii, 14 2:155 23 2:269 35–7, 42 2:18 63 2:157 23–4 2:272 39 and n157 2:20 250 2:161 24 2:273… »
« The scholars have spoken about it, and at great length too. However it can be summarised in two precepts (kalimatān): And take whatever the Messenger gives you, and abstain from whatever he forbids you [59:7]. Then he sa… »
« ḥusn al- (good opinion), lii, liii, 19 and n45, 31 n99, 55 n10. See also opinion: good sūʾ al- (bad opinion, of others), lii, 201. See also opinion: bad zuhd (abstinence, renunciation, asceticism), xxx, xlvi n201, 37, 56… »
« He said: This means eight regiments of cherubim whose number no one knows except God. The Prophet said, ‘Indeed, God has allowed me to speak about one of the angels among the Throne Bearers. His feet are on the lowest… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [43:55] So when they had angered Us, We took vengeance on them… He said: That is, ‘When they enraged Us by persisting in their transgression against [Our] commandments, by their exhibition of in… »
« state of true poverty (ḥaqīqat al-faqr) without being attached to any [secondary] cause. Purification is of seven kinds: the purification of knowledge from ignorance, the purification of remembrance from forgetfulness, t… »
« and His days; they are the prophets and veracious (ṣiddīqūn). His words, Exalted is He: [21:10] And now We have sent down [as revelation] to you a Book in which is remembrance that is yours… That is, ‘[You will find] lif… »
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« but Me (20:14, 27:9 and 29:30). 117 i.e. the nation of Muḥammad. Tafsīr al-Tustarī 34 neither of them could sleep or find rest. Indeed it was narrated that a woman who had bought Ṣuhayb [as a slave] saw him in this condi… »
« (tajallī), in reward for your profession of His oneness and as a favour (tafaḍḍul) from your Lord. His words: [41:33] Who is better in speech than one who summons [others] to God… That is, than one who guides [people] to… »
« dahsha; bewilderment mutashābih, pl. mutshābihāt. See muḥkam mutawassimīn (those who take note), 105 Muʿtazilῑs (Muʿtazilites), xxxi n123, 197 n6, 314 n4, 329 muṭīʿ (obedient), 53. See also ṭāʿa; obedience muttaqī pl. mu… »
« al-Razzāq (the Provider), 61 al-Ṣabūr (the Forbearing), 243 al-Salām (peace), as one of God’s names, 56 Tafsīr al-Tustarī 386 al-Ṣamad (the Self-Sufficing, Eternally Besought of All), 71, 317 al-Sayyid (Master), 317 sign… »
« 1 lit. the way (ṭarīq) is incumbent upon Us (ʿalaynā). 2 Tirmidhī, Nawādir al-uṣūl, vol. 3, p. 64 and 259; Muḥammad b. Salāma al-Quḍāʿī, Musnad al-Shihāb (Beirut, 1986), vol. 1, p. 34, vol. 2, p. 326. 3 All the MSS (Z515… »