Tafsīr ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī 1. Volume
Tafsīr ʿAbd al-Razzāq al-Kāshānī All praise belongs to God whose arrangements 1 of His [Qur ʾā nic] speech He has made to be the manifestations of the beauty ( ḥusn ) of His attributes and the rising stars ( ṭawāliʿ ) 2 of His attributes [to be] the rising points ( maṭāliʿ ) of the light of His essence. He has purified the channels of audition in the hearts of His elect ( aṣfiyāʾ ) so that the audition may be realised. He has refreshed the sources of the sensory faculties of comprehension in His friends ( awliyāʾ ) so that the beholding may be certain. He has made their innermost hearts sensitive to [the divine] subtleties by the irradiation of rays of love within them. He has made their spirits yearn to witness the beauty of His countenance, [only possible] by means of their annihilation ( fanāʾ ); but when He cast upon them [His] speech they found spiritual comfort in it by morning and evening. Through that [speech] He broug...