The Meccan Revelations: al-Futuhat al-Makkiyya

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[ What Al-Qushayri mentioned in the chapter on jealousy is not jealousy ]

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Al-Qushayri mentioned in the chapter on jealousy in his letter on the authority of some of them that he was asked, “When will you rest?” He said, “If I do not see him remembering,” and this is not jealousy. Al-Qushayri made a mistake in saying something like this in the chapter on jealousy in his book. He imagined that Al-Shibli, in the event that those who remember see God, is heedless and inviolable, like this. Whoever mentions him with vain faith and immoral faith, and remembers God in seeking livelihood in the markets, is jealous to be mentioned in this capacity because the one mentioned has not fulfilled his right of inviolability according to Dhikr and Ash-Shibli. It is far-fetched that this is what he meant by that statement at the beginning of his affair and at the time of his veil from knowing his Lord. As for knowledge, it is not. This means his saying, “If I do not see him remembering,” and the meaning of that with regard to the great knowers is that the remembrance doe


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