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أَمْ حَسِبْتُمْ أَن تُتْرَكُواْ وَلَمَّا يَعْلَمِ ٱللَّهُ ٱلَّذِينَ جَاهَدُواْ مِنكُمْ وَلَمْ يَتَّخِذُواْ مِن دُونِ ٱللَّهِ وَلاَ رَسُولِهِ وَلاَ ٱلْمُؤْمِنِينَ وَلِيجَةً وَٱللَّهُ خَبِيرٌ بِمَا تَعْمَلُونَ
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-At-Tawbah ( التوبة )

Tafsir al-Tustari

…an intimate friend (walīja)… ʿUmar b. Wāṣil al-ʿAnbarī said, ‘A walīja is anything that you cause to enter or become part of somethingother than itself.’ Sahl said:This means that they did not become heedless of Him by the inclining of their hearts towards their lower selves.His words:


Tafsīr al-Tustarī, trans. Annabel Keeler and Ali Keeler
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