Shu'ab al-Iman (al-Bayhaqi) 463
✧ The meanings of love
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أَخْبَرَنَا أَبُو عَبْدِ الرَّحْمَنِ السُّلَمِيُّ، أَخْبَرَنَا عَلِيُّ بْنُ حَمْدَانَ، حدثنا عَبَّادُ بْنُ عَبَّاسٍ الرَّازِيُّ، حدثنا مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ جَعْفَرٍ الْأُشْنَانِيُّ قَالَ: سَمِعْتُ يَحْيَى بْنَ مُعَاذٍ يَقُولُ وَأَنَا أُوَاكِلُهُ عَلَى الْمَائِدَةِ:
" إِنْ فَطَّنَكَ بِبِرِّهِ فَرَّغَكَ لِذِكْرِهِ، وَإِنْ فَرَّغَكَ لِذِكْرِهِ مَنَّ عَلَيْكَ بِحُبِّهِ، وَإِنْ مَنَّ عَلَيْكَ بِحُبِّهِ نَاجَاكَ بِقُرْبِهِ "
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machine translationAbū ʿAbd al-Raḥmān al-Sulamī informed us, ʿAlī b. Ḥamdān informed us, ʿAbbād b. ʿAbbās al-Rāzī narrated to us, Muḥammad b. Jaʿfar al-Ushnānī narrated to us, he said: I heard Yaḥyā b. Muʿādh say, while I was eating with him at the table:
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"If He makes you aware of His kindness, He frees you for His remembrance; and if He frees you for His remembrance, He favors you with His love; and if He favors you with His love, He converses with you intimately in His nearness."
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