This glossary is from Purification of the Mind (Jila’ Al-Khatir)
This is a list of Arabic words and our chosen translations.
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‘abd |
servant/slave |
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‘ārif |
knower |
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‘Arsh |
the Throne |
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‘Ilm |
Knowledge |
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‘uzla |
seclusion |
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abdāl |
spiritual substitutes |
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ādāb |
refined behavior |
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al‑Ḥaqq |
the True One |
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al-aqsām al‑maqsūma |
allotted worldly shares |
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al-ḥukm (Sharī‘a) |
the Law |
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asbāb |
means |
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badaliyya |
spiritual substitution |
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bāṭin |
inward |
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bid‘a |
false innovation |
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dhāhir |
outward |
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dunya |
this world |
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fanā’ |
extinction |
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farīdha |
obligatory duty |
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ḥāl (ḥālāt) |
spiritual state(s) |
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hawā |
passion |
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himma |
aspiration |
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ḥirṣ |
greedy keenness |
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imān |
faith |
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ishrāk |
association of someone with Allah or attribution of partners to Allah |
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īqān |
certainty [of belief] |
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jalwa |
public life |
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jawāriḥ |
limbs and senses |
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jihād |
strife or striving |
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kadr |
impurity |
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khalwa |
private life or solitude |
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laththāt |
pleasures |
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luṭf |
subtle kindness |
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ma‘nā |
essence |
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ma‘rifa |
knowingness |
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maqām |
spiritual station |
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mi‘rāj |
Heavenly Ascension |
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mu’min |
believer |
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mujāhada |
striving |
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munājāt |
private conversation |
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mutazahhid |
would-be ascetic |
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muttaqī |
pious to Allah |
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nafs |
lower self |
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qadar |
destiny |
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qadhā’ |
divine decree |
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quṭb |
spiritual pivot |
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ṣādiq |
truthful person |
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ṣafā’ |
purity |
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shahawāt |
lustful desires |
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sirr |
innermost being |
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ṭab‘ |
natural inclination |
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taqwa |
piety |
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tawakkul |
trust |
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tawḥīd |
belief in the oneness of God |
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walī |
saint |
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wara‘ |
pious restraint |
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wāṣiṭa |
mediator |
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wilāya |
sainthood |
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yaqīn |
certitude |
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zāhid |
ascetic |
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zakāt |
obligatory alms |
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zuhd |
renunciation |
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