“To be despondent of Allah’s Mercy results in the person being deprived of eternal blessings, because ‘Qunut’ causes the severance of the relation between the creature and Allah. The cause for this despondence is the extinguishing of the original flame of creation that had been alive in his heart. Even if a little of the…
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‘Nor let them stamp their feet so that their hidden…
‘Nor let them stamp their feet so that their hidden ornament may be known.’ (24:31) Arab women stamped their feet so that their silver or gold anklets would make sounds and things hidden would appear. They are told not to do this, not to do something to draw the attention of others towards them. Thus…
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The Almighty Allah is not a physical and place-occupying…
The Almighty Allah is not a physical and place-occupying being whom we could get near to with the movement of the body and traversing material distance and that no kind of physical action and reaction and body change and development can in itself have any role in changing man’s relation to the Almighty Allah and…
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‘…Those who forsook Allah, so He made them forsake…
‘…Those who forsook Allah, so He made them forsake their own souls… (59:19).’ An inseparable relation exists between knowing one’s self and knowing Allah and also between forsaking one’s self and Allah’s forsaking. The reality of “forsaking oneself” and “self-alienation” in the Islamic culture is this very matter that a person forgets his human identity…
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The existence of each creature has a relation between…
The existence of each creature has a relation between itself and the Creator and no creature has any independence of the existence-giving Creator and this is a matter of clarification which is rated among the honors of the great Islamic expert Sadrul-Muta’allihin Ash-Shirazi and the philosophical expression of the fourth meaning of the above-mentioned meanings…
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