Testimony
idea · 2 works · 2 mentions · 2 anchored passages
a testimony · certificate · shahādah · testimony
in the texts
al-Saʻādah fī falsafat al-akhlāq
A credential, played on in two senses: the worldly diploma and the testimony to good conduct that admits one to the next world.
It belongs to wretchedness in the present life that a man should strive with earnestness and exertion after a certificate (shahādah) that will bring him to an immediate post, or to a rank that raises his standing among his associates, joining night to day and spending himself utterly in it, and yet not strive after the testimony by which he passes the obstacles of the abiding abode and in virtue o …
It is a testimony to the goodness of his course and his conduct in this world of his — with his own soul (nafs), with his Creator, and with His creatures;
Adversus Marcionem
The concept of testimony invoked by Christ's command to the cleansed leper, central to the dispute over the law's status.
But if Elisha, the prophet of the Creator, cleansed the single leper Naaman the Syrian out of so many Israelite lepers, neither does this make for a diversity of Christ, as though in this way the better — in that a stranger cleanses an Israelite leper whom his own lord could not cleanse — the Syrian the more easily cleansed signifying, through the nations, of those who bristled with the seven stai …