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« and He adorned some hearts with the lights of His gnosis (maʿrifa), and the secrets of its light by virtue of firm belief (taṣdīq). So they spent freely of their whole being (muhaj) and their possessions for Him, like al… »
« believers along with the disbelievers. 198 Tafsīr al-Tustarī He said: The real believer (al-muʾmin ʿalā’l-ḥaqīqa) is the one who is not heedless of his lower self and his heart, but scrutinises his states (aḥwāl), and ke… »
« That is, He returned them to the state of ignorance of Him which was the natural constitution of their souls.19 And the Prophet also said: ‘Do not clean yourselves [after defecation] with bones or animal droppings, for… »
« and made the hearts of His enemies grieve with the darkness of His wrath. [53:44] and that it is He who brings death and gives life, He said: He caused the hearts of His enemies to die through disbelief (kufr) and darkne… »
« regarding the avoidance of excess. 6 Ibn Abī ʿĀṣim al-Ḍaḥḥāk al-Shaybānī, Kitāb al-Zuhd (Cairo, 1988), p. 228; but it is found attributed to al-Ṭāʾī in Iṣfahānī, Ḥilyat al-awliyāʾ, vol. 7, p. 353. 7 These are words spoke… »
« the words usually used are khawf and rajāʾ. At a certain stage, the aspirant will continually alternate between these states. See for example Qushayrī, Risāla, p. 319; ʿAbd Allāh al-Anṣārī, Ṣad maydān, text and French tr… »
« His words, Exalted is He: [13:11] For him are attendants (muʿaqqibāt) in front of him and behind him, guarding him by God’s command… The meaning of muʿaqqibāt is the angels of the night and day, which come one after the… »
« pledge (mīthāq, ʿahd, bayʿa), xxxv, 76, 234, 249. See also pact made with Muḥammad (bayʿa), 197, 314 n1 poetry and singing, 8, 32 n110, 44, 159 n13 Pool (ḥawḍ), in Paradise, 234 and n4, 312 n3. See also Paradise poor (fa… »
« glad tidings of Paradise, for I did not know your [spiritual] rank before you ate it; no one eats of the food of Paradise in this life except the people of Paradise.’ Then Abū Bakr asked Sahl if the one who had eaten the… »
« ʿIkrima (d. ca 105/723–4). A distinguished member of the generation of Followers and a respected narrator of ḥadīth. A slave of Ibn ʿAbbās, he was later manumitted by the latter’s son ʿAlī, and came to be known as a mawl… »
« n5, 306, 311, 316 as distraction, 234 and feeling of independence, 296 giving away, 207–8 God’s impoverishing through, 224 God’s infinite, liv, 161 of the heart, 267 intoxication of, xlv, 109 is knowledge, xlix, 110 of K… »
« 192, 208 n8, 222 G Ghazālī, Abū Ḥāmid al-, xi, xxiii and n79, 16 n23, 300 n5 H Ḥabīb Allāh (Beloved of God), i.e. Muḥammad, 33 and n111. See also Beloved, of God Ḥafṣa, 46 al-Ḥajjāj b. Yūsuf b. al-Ḥikam al-Thaqafī, 294,… »
« Sahl said: Muḥammad b. Sawwār related on the authority of Ibn ʿUmar that the Prophet said, ‘Who- ever wishes to behold the Resurrection as if he were seeing it with his own eyes should read: When the sun is folded aw… »
« 3 That is, following MS F638, f. 55b, which has aw shayʾan, while the published edition has shayʾan. MSS Z515, f. 116b and F3488, f. 266b have aw sababan. 4 According to several aḥadīth, the Pool (ḥawḍ) is one of the ble… »
« this may [itself] be a blessing from God upon you, for if He so wished He could have afflicted you with something severer than that, so in comparison to a severer affliction, it is a blessing, for [under a severer afflic… »
« (fl. third/ninth century). A contemporary and close disciple of Sahl al-Tustarī, who received permission to transmit the latter’s Tafsīr in the year 275/888. He is mentioned in twelve passages of the Tafsīr, indicating h… »
« ship in their lives, such that they became preoccupied with their world[ly concerns] to the exclusion of their [concern for the] Hereafter. [7:95] Then We gave them in place of evil, good, until they multiplied… [He said… »
« 12 i.e. subsisting through God’s knowledge, that is, wholly in a state of oneness, beyond the duality that implies a knowing subject and object of knowing. Tustarī is here implying the concept of annihilation and subsist… »
« 8:23 81 11:7 76 14:11 102 8:29 81–2 11:15 91 14:19 102 8:37 82 11:23 91 14:22 122 8:46 82, 95 11:40 92–3 14:24 103 8:48 82 11:75 93 14:25 102–3 8:53 82 11:78 93 14:26 103 8:58 58 11:88 93–4 14:34 103, 205 8:69 82 11:91 9… »
« 31:33 257 37:107 165 27:19 liv, 144 31:34 154 37:139–48 166 n14 27:52 xlii, 144 32:5 xxxv, 155 37:143 166 27:59 144–5 32:13 155 37:164 67 27:62 145 32:14 17 38:1 12, 167 356 Tafsīr al-Tustarī 27:64 145 32:15 155 38:2 39… »
« 2nd person plural of the verb used earlier. 6 Or ‘in what decreed state’. 7 Ibn Ḥanbal, al-Musnad, vol. 5, p. 335; Mundhirī, al-Targhīb wa’l-tarhīb, vol. 4, p. 48. 8 Correcting thabbitnī in the published edition to massi… »
« Muṣṭafā; al-Muzzammil angels blessing, 24 breast of, is light, 2–3 charged with promulgation and explanation of Qurʾān, 3 closer to believers than their own souls [33:6], 157 commanded to be in state of utter neediness,… »
« 4:125 22 6:127 67 3:96 48, 133 4:139 57 6:129 67–8 3:97 25 4:141 57 6:132 67 3:102 22, 26, 47 4:142 57–8 6:147 68 3:103 43 4:143 59 6:151 68 3:106 48 4:145 82 6:152 68 3:112 44 4:164 32 n109 6:153 69 3:141 48–9 4:171 59… »
« unveiling (tajallī al-mukāshafa), this being subsistence with the Subsistent One (baqāʾ maʿa’l-Bāqī). See how He privileges them with faith on the condition that they submit to His command and acquiesce [in a state] of t… »