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« His words, Exalted is He: [97:1] Lo! We revealed it on the Night of Great Merit. He said: On the Night of Great Merit [the descent of] mercy upon His servants was decreed. His words, Exalted is He: [97:4, 5] (The angels… »
« Alternatively, the previous ittiṣāl, should perhaps have been ittiḥād. 43 Or it could mean ‘separating the self [from the unreal]’. 44 Tustarī has returned in his discourse to the level of awareness of the separation of… »
« 16:90 109–10, 242 18:73 17 21:35 128 16:97 110 18:79 37 21:51 65 16:110 110 18:109 xxvii, 118 21:69 32 and n110, 16:119 110–11 18:110 118 129 16:125 xxix, 36 19:1 12 21:74 36 16:126 305 19:13 119 21:83 128–9 16:127 111,… »
« not entertain the slightest whispering (waswasa) of the self without abandoning it and return- ing to its Lord. God, Exalted is He, made the natural propensity (ṭabʿ) of the self such that it is passive when faced with c… »
« subsequently deprived him of food and drink. When his door was opened they found him dead with his mouth full of straw and clay due to his intense hunger.6 Then he [the Caliph] said, ‘Truly I have advised you and truly I… »
« 318. See also purification taḥayyur (bewilderment, confusion). See ḥayra taḥqīq (realisation), lvii, lviii, 52, 79, 194, 202. See also ḥaqq (truth); ḥaqīqa; realisation; truth al-ḥaqq (realising the truth), 191 tāʾib pl.… »
« He said: The believer should not be in this world other than as a man riding a piece of wood in the sea, crying the while, ‘O Lord! O Lord! (Yā Rabb! Yā Rabb!), in the hope that He may save him from it. Every believing s… »
« He asked, ‘Whose is the nightingale?’ He replied: ‘This boy’s.’ It was one of his sons. He [Sahl] took a dinar out of his sleeve and said, ‘My boy, which is dearer to you, the dinar or the night- ingale?’ He replied, ‘Th… »
« 27 n87, 62, 66 n16, 76 and n26, 77, 125 n7, 128, 139, 166, 241, 258 n7. See also test(s); tribulation(s); affliction of mercy, sent to Abraham, 165 and nn5–6 tribulation(s) (balāʾ, muṣība), 16, 241, 253, 254. See also te… »
« 167 n1, 255 n3, 306 n1, 309 and n1, 324, 325, 328, 331 Qushayrī, Abū al-Qāsim ʿAbd al-Karῑm b. Hawāzan al-, xvi, 66, 213 n9, 219 n6 Quss b. Sāʿida, 167, 329 R Rabīʿ, 277 Rābiʿa al-ʿAdawiyya, 61, 62 and n7, 258, 328, 329… »
« wavered — and in Arabic the same verb is used (tāba) both for God’s relenting towards humanity and for their repenting to Him — that the sūra is usually given the title al-Tawba. See above, p. 83, n. 1. »
« as True (saddaqanī), for I am there whenever someone calls on Me with sincerity (mukhliṣan), without despondency (āyis) or despair (qanaṭ).’ [2:197] And take provision, but the best of provisions is mindfulness of God...… »
« earned? [13:33], and He has said, There is not a secret consultation between three, but He makes the fourth among them [58:7]. He has also said, We are nearer to him than [his] aorta (ḥabl al-warīd) [50:16]. This is the… »
« [89:16] But when He tests him and restricts His provision for him… That is, He stints (qatara) His provision for him, …he says, ‘My Lord has humiliated me’ through poverty (faqr). But God says: [89:17] ‘Not so!’… ‘I did… »
« the middle position is the one who is preoccupied with his Hereafter and his life in this world; but the wrongdoer is he who is preoccupied only with his worldly life, without any concern for his Hereafter. Ḥasan al-Baṣr… »
« God replied, ‘Now you have shown true gratitude towards me.’4 His words, Exalted is He: [14:11] …But God favours whomever He will of His servants… That is, [He favours them] with [the ability to] recite (tilāwa) His Book… »
« Tirmidhī, al-Ḥakīm Muḥammad b. ʿAlī al-. Bayān al-farq bayn al-ṣadr wa’l-qalb wa’l-fuʾād wa’l-lubb, ed. Nicholas Heer. Cairo, 1958. Translated into English by Nicholas Heer in Nicholas Heer and Kenneth L. Honerkamp, Thre… »
« 17:61 42 20:7 124 22:27 132 17:67 114 20:10 32 22:28 132–3 17:68 114 20:12 32 22:29 133 17:69 114 20:18 124 22:46 xliii, 133 17:72 114 20:38–40 125 n6 22:52 133–4 17:80 114 20:39 40 n159, 22:54 134 17:107 114 124–5 23:1–… »
« which is guided by the sharīʿa. The wayfarer refers to the bodily members (jawāriḥ) which are in a state of obedience to God. This is the inner meaning of the verse. His words: [4:41] So how shall it be, when We bring fo… »
« testimony of, 58 true, lii, 84, 134 fanāʾ (annihilation from self), lix and n269, 327 and subsistence in God (baqāʾ), lix and n269. See also subsistence (baqāʾ) al-fānī (the ephemeral), 290 fāqa (deprivation, need) 40, 7… »
« Maʿrūf al-Karkhī, xv, 328 Mary, Mother of Jesus, 9 n40, 20, 44 and nn19 and 21, 149, 251, 256 heart of, 44 Masjid al-Ḥarām (Sacred Mosque), 133. See also Index III, Kaʿba Masrūq b. al-Ajdaʿ, 219, 328 Mattā b. Aḥmad. See… »
« the good tidings that I am forgiving (ghafūr) and warn the veracious (ṣiddīqūn) that I am jealous (ghayūr).’6 1 Azhad being the superlative of zāhid which is often translated as ‘ascetic’, though it means more precisely… »
« Iṣfahānī, Abū Nuʿaym al-. Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ. Cairo, 1932–8. Isḥāq b. Ibrāhīm b. Rāhawayh al-Ḥanẓalī. al-Musnad, ed. ʿAbd al-Ghafūr al-Balūshī. Medina, 1991. Ismāʿīl Pāā al-Bāghdādī. Hadīyat al-ʿārifīn, asmāʾ al-muʾallif… »
« xli, xlv, 15, 16, 17, 18, 29, 53, 56, 64, 73, 78, 110, 112, 133, 144, 155, 176, 183, 189, 204, 205, 248, 249, 254, 257, 259, 273, 299, 314, 315, 318, 319, 320 companions, 268 doors opening to, 39, 122 good and, created b… »