۞

« 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 spoken to Korah by his people. The context is given in note 10 below. 8 The addition is made on the basis of all three MSS: Z515, f. 83b, F638, f. 38b and F3488, f. 257a, all of which have: wa futiḥa lahu before sabīl. 9 On Tustarī’s doctrine that acts of obedience are only accomplished through God’s favour and assistance, while disobedi- ence is through God’s withdrawing His protection, see IC, p. 2, and Tustarī’s commentary on 2:3, 2:30, 2:235, 3:160, 18:17 »