The library of Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī

1. Qurʼān God 11 authority 11 citations

   Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

   ch. 1 · ch. 3 · ch. 4

   11 citations

   ' It is admissible that by 'the peaks' he intends the heavens, their highest being the Throne, and the summit of the Throne being the all-merciful quality established upon it, as the Real mentioned in His noble Book with His words, 'the All-Merciful is seated upon the Throne' — for the cognitive presence which it contains is matched by the Breath of the All-Merciful coursing through all the realit …

2. Ḥadīth Muhammad 6 authority 6 citations

   Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

   ch. 1 · ch. 3 · ch. 4

   6 citations

   And what has come down in the ḥadīth, his saying, God bless him and grant him peace, 'God created Adam upon His form' — where what is meant by 'form' is the form that reduces to attribute, as one says 'the form of the question is such-and-such,' according to what the Imām, the Proof of Islam (Ḥujjat al-Islām), and other eminent imāms have verified — is built solely upon what we have indicated, nam …

3. Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī 1 authority · 2 extended 3 citations

   Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

   ch. 1 · ch. 2 · ch. 3

   3 citations

   ' And the discourse in the epistle proper is with the first party, so it would have been more fitting not to turn toward any other than them;

4. Plato 2 endorsed 2 citations

   Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

   ch. 2 · ch. 3

   2 citations

   and be as Plato (*Aflāṭūn*) said:

5. Aphorisms Hippocrates 1 endorsed 1 citation

   Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

   ch. 3

   1 citation

   ' And Buqrāṭ spoke truly when he said in the Aphorisms:

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Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi

A work of a later man among the people of complete taste on the subtleties of Arabic · Consensus of the people of reason and of transmitted tradition · Dictum of the verifiers that the all is in the all · Doctrine of al-Ghazālī on the form in the ḥadīth · Doctrine of the Great Shaykh on the world of souls · Doctrine of the Muʻtazilah on the fixed · Doctrine of the imāms of unveiling on perpetual glorification · Doctrine of the people of taste on the great and small world · Doctrine of the philosophers on the celestial souls · Doctrine of the verifiers on the predominating attribute in each existent · Interpretation of the clear book by the exegetes · Persian verse on the cup of Jam · Persian verse on the straitened mote as world-displaying cup · Principles of the imāms of unveiling on attributes and essences · Saying of Abū Yazīd on the gnostic's heart · Terminology of al-Ghazālī for the world of omnipotence · The Qurʼan and the Sunnah as sources of indication · The Qurʼan, Sūrat al-Ḥashr on the divine names · The Qurʼan, Sūrat Ṭā Hā on Moses at the fire, the sandals and the sorcerers · The Qurʼan, on Hell encompassing the unbelievers · The Qurʼan, on all affairs coming home to God · The Qurʼan, on devouring the wealth of orphans · The Qurʼan, on everything perishing save His face · The Qurʼan, on the command Be · The Qurʼan, the summons to take heed · The Shaykh's commentary on the ḥadīth · The books of the Sufis · The claim that the essential impurity of wine appeared only to the Seal · The conventional philosophy (al-ḥikmah al-rasmīyah) · The dictum that number is a moving intellect · The dictum that the fixed entities have never caught the scent of existence · The doctrine of the Illuminationists on existence and the effect · The doctrine of the Peripatetics on the agent conferring existence · The doctrine of the verifiers on the existent and on the two determinations · The jurists ruling on the essential impurity of wine · The oral report of Muḥyī al-Millah wa-al-Dīn Muḥammad al-Anṣārī · The parables on the tongues of the prophecies · The philosophers denial of divine knowledge of particulars · The prophetic warnings and the indications of the friends of God against divulging the realities · The received doctrine of the schools that quiddities are not made · The reported difficulty of one of the Successors about the impurity of wine · The saying that men are asleep and awake when they die · The science of theology · The teaching of Ibn ʻArabī · The teaching of the people of theoretical philosophy on substances in the mind · The theologians doctrine that the knowledge is eternal and the relation originated · The true Law (al-sharīʻah) · The verses on the pre-eternal letters · Verse on the eyes of the gazelles · Verse on the shirt stitched from twenty-nine letters · Verse on what the sphere and the angel do not attain · al-Fukūk · al-Fārābī on the positions posited in distance · al-Nuṣūṣ · Ḥadīth of the Prophet seeing the Garden and the Fire while at prayer · Ḥadīth of the prayer to be shown things as they are · Ḥadīth on drinking from vessels of gold and silver · Ḥadīth that sleep is the brother of death · Ḥadīth that the Garden is a level plain whose planting is glorification · Ḥadīth that this world is the sowing-field of the next · Ḥadīth that unbelief is a single creed · Ḥikmat al-Ishrāq

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1. Kitāb al-Zawrāʼ wa-al-taʻlīqāt ʻalayhi Jalāl al-Dīn al-Dawwānī 1 authority · 2 extended 3 citations · 4 passages

   ch. 1 · ch. 2 · ch. 3 2 passages anchored here

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   when I had finished the refining of the epistle entitled al-Zawrāʼ — which comprises select portions of the realities and the cream of the subtleties, and which is among the singular things of the age, since it contains secrets whose veil had not been drawn back until now, indeed virgins 'whom no man nor jinn has touched before them,' and which was summary and knotty, its recalcitrant passages res …