Part 9 (2/2)

Whatever be its form, belongs to G.o.d.

If G.o.d did not wish to dwell in a variety of hearts

Here below, there would be no religions.

Frithjof Schuon

Footnotes

1 Koran 7:156.

2 Koran 1:2.

3 Al-Futuhat al-makkiyya (Cairo, 1329 h.), III, 404.

4 Kitab al-mawaqif (Damascus, 1966), stop no. 368.

5 S. H. Nasr, Science and Civilization in Islam (New York: New American Library, 1968), introduction.

6 Koran 17:44.

7 Koran 11:118-119.

8 Koran 49:13.

9 Koran 30:22.

10 Koran 4:163-164.

11 Koran 10:47.

12 On these questions see eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam (Bloomington: World Wisdom, 2010), pp. 182-183.

13 On the ”Charter” see in particular M. Hamidullah, Le Prophete de l'islam, sa vie, son oeuvre (Paris, 1959), pp. 124-129; A.L. de Premare, Les Fondations de l'islam-Entre ecriture et histoire (Paris, 2002), pp. 88-89; and S. Stetie, Mahomet (Paris, 2001), pp. 135-137.

14 Koran 21:92-93.

15 F. Esack, Qur'an, Liberation, and Pluralism (Oxford, 1997), p. 170.

16 Among them Tabari, Jami' al-bayan 'an ta'wil ayi al-Qur'an (Beirut, n.d.), III, p. 212; Ibn 'Arabi, Fusus al- hikam, ed. 'Afifi (Beirut, n.d., I, pp. 94-95; al-Qashani, Tafsir al-Qur'an al-karim (attributed to Ibn 'Arabi) (Beirut, n.d.), I, p. 174; Ibn 'Ajiba, Al-bahr al-madid fi tafsir al-Qur'an al-majid (Beirut, 2002), I, p. 300.

17 Alusi, Ruh al-ma'ani, II, p. 107.

18 Ibid., II, p. 215.

19 Tabari, Jami' al-bayan, III, p. 339.

20 From the past: Qashani, I, p. 199; Alusi, II, p. 216; Ibn 'Ajiba, I, p. 343. Among modern commentators: R. Rida, Tafsir al-Manar; the s.h.i.+te Tabataba'i, al-Mizan fi tafsir al-Qur'an; F. Esack, Qur'an, p. 163.

21 For a summary of this question see E. Chaumont, ”Abrogation”, Dictionnaire du Coran, M.A. Amir-Moezzi (ed.), (Paris, 2007), p. 15.

22 Ibn 'Arabi, Al-Futuhat al-makkiyya, I, p. 265; C. A. Gilis, L'Esprit universel de l'Islam (Paris, 1998), pp. 204205.

23 M. Ghazali, Al-ta'a.s.sub, p. 82.

24 A. Charfi, L'islam entre, p. 50.

25 Koran 22:40.

26 Among modern commentators let us limited ourselves to I. Goldziher, Le dogme et la loi dans l'islam (Paris, 2005) (re-ed. of 1920), pp. 29-30; A. Fattal, Le statut legal des non-musulmans en pays d'Islam (Beirut, 1958); B. Lewis, Le retour de l'islam (Paris, 1985), p. 27 or Juifs en terre d'islam (Paris, 1986), p. 71.

27 eric Geoffroy, Introduction to Sufism: The Inner Path of Islam, pp. 182-183.

28 A rule reminded, for example, by M. Ghazali, Al-ta'a.s.sub, p. 87.

29 One will find a good summary of it in M. C. Ferjani, Le politique et le religieux dans le champ islamique (Paris, 2005), pp. 257-258.

30 Ibid., p. 259.

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