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« and n109, 120 n11. See also Moses Isaac, lviii, 49, 167, 168 n14, 169 Iṣfahānī, Abū Nuʿaym, xxv Ishmael, lviii, 49, 62, 169, 192 Ismāʿīl b. Aḥmad, 61 n6 J Jābir b. ʿAbd Allāh, 109, 327 Jābir b. Ḥayyān, xvii and n21 Jacob… »
« Tafsīr al-Tustarī 114 other will be cancelled out. Notice how the Prophet said: ‘If a believer’s hope and fear were weighed they would balance each other.’12 His words, Exalted is He: [17:67] And when distress befalls… »
« 327 Ibn Ḥayyān, probably Muqāṭil Ibn Ḥayyān (d. 150/767 or 153/770). Ḥadīth authority of Khurasanian origin from among the second generation of Muslims. Ibn Masʿūd, ʿAbd Allāh b. Ghāfil al-Hudhalī (d. 32/652–3). One of t… »
« food and drunk water.36 Indeed, had he had any food and water he would have given priority to his family and the People of the Bench (Ahl al-Ṣuffa) over himself.37 The second among the progeny, is Adam . God created him… »
« choice: election ashqiyāʾ (the wretched), 183. See also shaqāwa; wretchedness aṣl pl. uṣūl (fundamentals), of religious knowledge or theology, 9 n39, 88, 90, 117, 151, 173, 254 asmāʾ (names), of God, xviii, 220. See also… »
« He was among the devout men who eschewed government service under the Umayyad regime. He is buried in Basra. Sulamī, Abū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān b. Ḥabīb b. Rubayʿa (d. ca 70/689–90 or 72/691–2). A Kufan Qurʾān reciter from among… »
« with Him… [5:119]. [2:224] Do not make God’s [name] an excuse in your oaths not to be righteous… Sahl was asked concerning this verse, ‘What is this righteousness (birr)?’ He replied: ‘This means that you do not maintain… »
« 1 The printed edition, as well as MSS, Z515, f. 130a and F3488, f. 312b all have Sulaymān; however MS F638, f. 63b has Salmān, and it is presumably Salmān al-Fārisī (d. 35/655) who is meant, and this is confirmed by Bayh… »
« have over their own selves. 4 See above, IC, p. 2, n. 5 and p. 3, n. 14 regarding the different meanings of wilāya. 5 Bukhārī, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Īmān’; Muslim, Ṣaḥīḥ, ‘Kitāb al-Īmān’. 6 This verse relates part of the cove… »
« to him, and apprehend him for it.7 Then when he comes before God, Exalted is He, they will bear witness for him about the faithfulness of [his] obedience, and [against him] for the sins he committed. God said, Exalted is… »
« 1 [78:11] and [have We not] made the day for livelihood, That is, the lights of the heart and its illumination (tanwīr) through Our remembrance (dhikr), are the livelihood (ʿaysh) of the spiritual self (nafs al-rūḥ) and… »
« [things]: dependence on God, Majestic and Mighty is He; fleeing from people, and doing the least [possible] harm to others. ʿĀmir b. ʿAbd al-Qays used to say when he rose in the morning, ‘O God! Verily people have disper… »
« the river. Thus the love cast by God upon Moses was when he was still an infant. But interestingly, in his interpretation Tustarī refers to the bequest of knowledge before he speaks of the bequest of love, as will be see… »
« His words: [39:69] And the earth will shine with the light of its Lord… He said: The hearts of the believers will shine on the Day of Resurrection with the light of [their realisa- tion] of the oneness of their Lord,22 a… »
« to the Fire, and their unremitting punishment therein. 4 This tradition is cited in Muḥammad b. Aḥmad al-Qurṭubī, al-Jāmiʿ li-aḥkām al-Qurʾān, known as Tafsīr al-Qurṭubī (Beirut, 1985), vol. 15, p. 358. 5 This saying, pr… »
« In their Qurʾānic context these words are usually understood to refer to the unbeliever who only turns to God and petitions Him in times of trouble and difficulty, but when he is relieved of the misfortune, carries on as… »
« will not talk to any human today.’ 1 The first part of Sūrat Maryam (vv. 2–11) relates the story of Zachariah praying to God for an heir, since his wife is barren, and God’s reassuring Zachariah that this would be easy f… »
« den.4 Then she started to recite the following: 1 Al-Walīd b. al-Mughīra was one of the chiefs among the Quraysh and head of the Makhzūm clan. It was he who decided in a council among the Quraysh that the best way to dis… »
« The servant belongs to God, and God is there for His servant. There is nothing closer to Him than the heart of the believer, and if anything else comes into his heart, that becomes a veil (ḥijāb) [for him]. Whoever looks… »
« and breadth of their speech, an analogous metaphor to that of the sun and moon hiding their faces before the luminous beauty of the beloved, which one finds in Persian poetry. There may also be an allusion here to Sūra 1… »
« cave of, 135 in God, from God, 209 regret (nadam), 75, 139, 146, 178, 201, 278 relatives, 110, 226, 236 reliance (sukūn, ittikāl, iʿtimād), on/ in / before God, xlviii, liii, lv, 3, 4, 19, 38, 56 and n16, 68 and n23, 100… »
« ing and of being sincere towards others. This verse occurs as part of the story of the prophet Hūd, when he was trying to bring the message of the oneness of God to his people, the ʿĀd. »
« His words, Exalted is He: [28:11] …So she watched him from a distance, while they were not aware.1 That is, at a distance from Our observance of him.2 His words, Exalted is he: [28:8] …that he might become an enemy and a… »
« 2 This story is related in Ibn al-Jawzī, Ṣifat al-ṣafwa, vol. 4, p. 377, and in Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 7, pp. 68–9. Shaybān’s fear of fame could be seen as an early example of the teachings associated with the… »