Discourse on the Spirit (al-rúḥ).
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Hujviri, ‘Ali ibn ‘Usman and Nicholson, Reynold Alleyne
Source notes
129. Nafaḥát, No. 201.
130. For the distinction between ṣifát-i dhát and ṣifát-i fi`l see Dozy, Supplément, ii, 810.
131. Here the author illustrates the meaning of “union” and “separation” by the action of Muḥammad when he threw gravel in the eyes of the unbelievers at Badr, and by that of David when he slew Goliath. See p. 185 supra.
132. The last words are corrupt and unmetrical in all the texts. I have found the true reading, من الأَحْشآءِ دانى, in a MS. of the Kitáb al-Luma` by Abú Naṣr al-Sarráj, which has recently come into the possession of Mr. A. G. Ellis.
133. Nafaḥát, No. 188.
134. “The Book of Exposition for Persons of Intuition.”
135. “The Sea of Hearts.”
136. See note, p. 131.
137. The nisba Muqaddasí or Maqdisí belongs to a number of Moslem writers. I do not know which of them is intended here.
138. See Nafaḥát, No. 178.
139. This person, whom the author has already mentioned at the beginning of Chapter XIII, is not identical with the Ṣúfí of the same name who was a contemporary of Junayd (Nafaḥát, No. 197).