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« [83:36] Have the disbelievers been requited for what they did? 5 [Concerning these words Sahl also] said: In this verse there is a clear proof confirming that the vision [of God] (rūʾya) will be exclusively for the belie… »
« who lives the simplest of lives,2 eating just a crust of bread, and wearing worn-out clothes, who is the lowliest of men,3 strives hard in his worship, cries over the misdeed he commits, flees from punishment and seeks G… »
« Lām Mīm means ‘I am God and I know’; while ʿAlī said that these are names [in the form of] ‘disconnected’ [letters], but if a letter is taken from each of the opening groups of letters, on the condition that it is not… »
« He said: That is, whoever entrusts his affairs to his Lord, will truly find that God, Exalted is He, suffices him in all that is necessary for him in both abodes.3 Abū al Ḥasan ʿUmar b. Wāṣil al-ʿAnbarī reported that he… »
« divinely supported and protected self (nafs al-tawfīq wa’l-ʿiṣma), he desired to escape from her and oppose her. This means that his Lord protected him, and if it had not been for the protection of his Lord, he would hav… »
« 1 His words, Exalted is He: [40:1, 2] Ḥā Mīm. The revelation of the Book is from God, the Almighty, the All-Knowing, He said: That is, the Living (al-Ḥayy), the King (al-Malik),2 who sent down the Book to you. He is ⸢G… »
« [same] ḥadīth the Prophet went on to say, ‘And if someone eats at his house, the angels pray over him [the host] until eventide’, meaning the angels supplicate for him.66 Sahl continued: Ṣalāt carries two meanings: one… »
« it became incumbent upon him to befriend those who had allied themselves to God, Exalted is He, and those who believed. Then He said: [5:56] As to those who ally themselves with God, His Messenger and the believers, it i… »
« They will be told, ‘[These people] used to fast at length during the life of the world, while you ate your fill, and they would stay up at night in prayer while you took your rest.’ [69:25] But as for him who is given hi… »
« attained through effort, but rather by acting in sincerity (al-ʿamal bi’l-ikhlāṣ) for Him. Truly God, Exalted is He, has servants in Paradise who, if they were veiled from the encounter (liqāʾ) [with their Lord] for a bl… »
« assisted them in doing. So He said, Their sides withdraw from their beds. 1 That is translating ʿilmihi according to all three MSS (Z515, f. 86b, F638, f. 40a and F3488, f. 260b) instead of amrihi in the published editio… »
« analogous to the state of baqāʾ (subsisting in God) that is concomitant with fanāʾ (annihilation from self), which may be implied by Tustarī’s use of the the term baqiyya, though it should be added that in his Tafsīr he… »
« Ibn Masʿūd said, ‘The believer sees his sins as if he were at the foot of a mountain that he fears will fall on top on him, whereas the disbeliever sees sin as a fly which alights on his nose. Then he says, “It’s like… »
« and the denying unbeliever (jāḥid) will strive to defend himself. Each one will be judged according to what he recorded [for himself], his ink being his saliva, his pen his tongue and his parchment his bodily members. Hi… »
« Thaʿlabī, Qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ al-musammā bi’l-ʿArāʾis al-majālis (Cairo, n.d.), p. 85; English trans. by William M. Brinner as ʿArāʾis al-majālis fī qiṣaṣ al-anbiyāʾ or: Lives of the Prophets as recounted by Abū Isḥāq Aḥmad… »
« ing from harming people, bearing the harm that comes from them and doing good to them. [76:7] …and they fear a day the evil of which will be widespread. He said: In the Hereafter, tribulations (balāyā) and hardships (sha… »
« becoming as earth for servants of God, lii, 84 of / and God, xxx, xxxvii, lii, liii, 32, 71, 270 God’s knowledge of, 1 God’s true, 284 prayer divided between God and, 11 the Prophet as God’s purest, 139 secret between, a… »
« as sleeping soul, 222 is your self, 55 worship/ worshipping (ʿibāda / taʿabbud), xxi, xxxiii, xxxv, xxxviii, xl, lv, lvi, lviii n265, 1, 10, 11, 15, 17, 22, 26, 42, 62, 88, 98, 101, 104, 108, 118, 119, 122, 130, 131, 136… »
« 3 That is according to MSS F638, f. 54a and F3488, f. 293a, which have abṣirū bi-barakat al-kitāba. However, Z515, f. 113b has abṣirū bi-barakatihi al-kitāba…, while Sulamī has ḥattā abṣara (sing.) bi-barakat al-kitāb.… »
« rightful claim over him. O Muʿādh! The believer strives to liberate himself. O Muʿādh! Truly a believer’s fear will not abate, nor his unrest be stilled until he leaves behind him the Traverse over Hell.1 O Muʿādh! Truly… »
« servanthood freeing of, 236, 286 of God, 43, 176, God’s way with His, 176 our works as our, 202 sleep, li, 31, 33, 34, 38, 76, 110, 124, 140, 207, 222 compared to death, xxxix–xl, 171 compared to drowsiness, 81 slumber (… »
« i.e. more knowledgeable of the inner world than the outer world. 4 Or alternatively the masculine pronoun might here be referring to an unspecified person rather than to the spirit, which we might translate: ‘knowing tha… »
« to have said at the end of a prayer: ‘I cannot adequately encompass Your praise. You are as You have praised Yourself.’ This prayer is reported in a ḥadīth which is listed in many collections, including Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘K… »
« that you see Him close to you with your heart. Thus, you feel shame before Him and give Him priority over yourself in all your affairs. Then he said: The one who claims to keep remembrance (dhikr) is not necessarily one… »