Saints
group · 6 works · 6 mentions · 8 anchored passages
the saints · a saint among the saints · al-awliyāʼ · all the saints · awliyāʼ · one outwardly righteous · the choir of the saints · walī · الاولياء · القديسون
spoken of as
1 expressionThe saints3 mentions
Barlaam and Josaphat (Greek) · Risālat al-Wāridāt (Arabic) · Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn (Arabic)
So then, since the Savior commands these things, and the Prophets and Apostles proclaim them, and all the saints in deed and word press us toward the most unerring way of virtue, even if few are those who travel it and more are those who prefer the broad way that leads to destruction, the conduct of this godly philosophy will not be lessened on that account.
in the texts
Letters
The saints, collectively cited as partakers of eternal reward.
Reckoning the dissolution of body and soul to be the deliverance from every evil, await the enjoyment of the eternal good things, of which all the saints have become partakers.
These things, then, I have willingly taken upon myself, that I may receive what has been promised to the martyrs of Christ and to all the other saints;
Stromata
The community of saints with whom the gnostic prays and lives.
Increasing, then, the seeds laid up within him according to the husbandry the Lord commanded, he remains free from sin, and becomes self-controlled, and passes his life with those like him in spirit, among the choirs of the saints, even while still held upon earth.
and even if he prays alone, he has the choir of the saints standing with him.
Kitāb madhāhib al-Aʻrāb wa-falāsifat al-Islām fī al-jinn
The Christian holy ones who, in the Middle Ages, reckoned themselves and others to be in perpetual strife with Satan.
« And in the Middle Ages » the belief in Satan was immense, for the saints reckoned themselves and others to be in perpetual strife with him;
Barlaam and Josaphat
The company of Christian saints, cited as those who followed Christ's command to renounce wealth through martyrdom or ascetic life.
So then, since the Savior commands these things, and the Prophets and Apostles proclaim them, and all the saints in deed and word press us toward the most unerring way of virtue, even if few are those who travel it and more are those who prefer the broad way that leads to destruction, the conduct of this godly philosophy will not be lessened on that account.
All the saints, then, hearing this commandment, took care to separate themselves entirely from such a difficulty of wealth;
Risālat al-Wāridāt
The awliyāʼ, God's friends, whose karāmāt the creed affirms and defines as custom-breaking events at the hand of one whose righteousness consists in following the Law and stopping at its rulings and limits.
And the charism of the saints (*karāmat al-awliyāʼ*) is established, and it is the custom-breaking event that God brings forth at the hand of one outwardly righteous, righteousness being the following of the Law and the halting at its rulings and its bounds — and this contrary to the Muʻtazilah and to some of the Ashʻarīs, who maintain the denial of the charism of the saints.
Kitāb mīzān al-ḥaqq fī al-manṭiq
The Muslim saints, whose category the common folk extend to trees and walls in a way that contradicts their own professed belief.
And how often we have heard that so-and-so cut down such a tree and his house burned down — and that tree becomes a saint among the saints, for all their believing that God has taken no saint out of firewood.