{
 "id": "concept/wilaya",
 "class": "concept",
 "slug": "wilaya",
 "label": {
  "ar": "ولاية الله",
  "en": "Friendship with God (wilaya)"
 },
 "summary": {
  "ar": "ولاية الله في الحديث القدسي الثامن والثلاثين من الأربعين: «من عادى لي ولياً فقد آذنته بالحرب، وما تقرب إلي عبدي بشيء أحب إلي مما افترضت عليه، ولا يزال عبدي يتقرب إلي بالنوافل حتى أحبه» — فالولي عند الشرح من استقام على الفرائض ثم تدرج بالنوافل حتى يصير محبوباً لله فيكون سمعه وبصره ويده ورجله بالله، والتقرب المؤسس للولاية رتبتان: الفرائض أولاً وهي أحب القربات، ثم النوافل بعدها؛ وعداوة الولي موجبة لإعلان الحرب من الله — أعظم وعيد في حق محبيه (جامع العلوم والحكم ص 770–771).",
  "en": "Friendship with God in the thirty-eighth sacred hadith of the Forty: 'whoever is hostile to a friend of Mine, I have declared war on him; My servant draws near to Me by nothing dearer to Me than what I have made obligatory on him; and My servant keeps drawing near to Me through supererogatory works until I love him' — the wali, on the commentary's account, is the one upright upon the obligations who then ascends through supererogatory works until he becomes beloved of God, his hearing, sight, hand and foot then acting by Him; the drawing near that founds wilaya has two ranks — the obligations first, dearest of all approaches, then the supererogatory after them — while enmity to a friend occasions God's own declaration of war, the gravest of threats in defence of His beloveds (Jami' al-Ulum wal-Hikam pp. 770–771)."
 },
 "stub": false,
 "wings": [
  "ideas"
 ],
 "regions": [
  "global"
 ],
 "periods": [
  "period/prophetic-era"
 ],
 "tags": [],
 "aliases": [],
 "themes": [
  "spirituality-and-sufism"
 ],
 "data": {
  "kind": "doctrine",
  "provenance": {
   "layer": "own-research",
   "source": "جامع العلوم والحكم، الحديث الثامن والثلاثون ص 770–771 (ط دار ابن كثير 1429هـ/2008م)",
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High) from Apple Vision OCR",
   "run": "lib-jami-ulum-hikam-batch-14"
  },
  "sources": [
   "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
  ],
  "status": {
   "review": "draft",
   "completeness": 1,
   "generated_by": "Devin (SWE-2 High); the declaration-of-war clause, the faraid-first order and the loved-servant sequence verified against OCR of printed pp. 770–771"
  }
 },
 "prose": {
  "ar": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "موجز",
     "markdown": "تُعرض الولاية في شرح ابن رجب للحديث الثامن والثلاثين من الأربعين، وهو حديث قدسي في ولي الله والتقرب إليه. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "من الولي",
     "markdown": "يذكر الشرح أن الولي هو من استقام على الفرائض، ثم تدرج بالنوافل حتى صار محبوباً لله. وفي الحديث أن سمعه وبصره ويده ورجله تكون بالله. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "رتبتا التقرب",
     "markdown": "للتقرب الذي تقوم عليه الولاية رتبتان. الفرائض أولاً، وهي أحب القربات إلى الله. ثم النوافل بعدها. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "عداوة الولي",
     "markdown": "في الحديث أن من عادى ولياً أعلن الله عليه الحرب. ويعده الشرح أعظم وعيد في حق محبيه. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}\n\nانظر [[concept/karamat-al-awliya|كرامات الأولياء]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/wilaya",
    "lang": "ar",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": []
   }
  },
  "en": {
   "sections": [
    {
     "heading": "Overview",
     "markdown": "*Wilaya* (sainthood, friendship with God) is set out in Ibn Rajab's commentary on the thirty-eighth hadith of the Forty, a sacred hadith about God's friend and drawing near to Him. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Who is the friend",
     "markdown": "The commentary says that the friend is one who has stood firm in the obligations, then advanced by supererogatory acts until he became beloved to God. The hadith says that his hearing, his sight, his hand, and his foot are by God. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "The two degrees of drawing near",
     "markdown": "There are two degrees of drawing near on which friendship rests. The obligations come first, and they are the most beloved of the approaches to God. Then the supererogatory acts follow. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}"
    },
    {
     "heading": "Enmity toward the friend",
     "markdown": "The hadith says that whoever is hostile to a friend, God declares war on him. The commentary considers this the greatest threat concerning those who love Him. {cite:ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam p.770-771}\n\nSee [[concept/karamat-al-awliya|the marvels of the friends of God]]."
    }
   ],
   "frontmatter": {
    "id": "concept/wilaya",
    "lang": "en",
    "source_lang": "ar",
    "translators": [
     "Claude Haiku 5.5 (claude-haiku-5-5), draft translation"
    ]
   }
  }
 },
 "degree": 4,
 "contemporaries": [],
 "connections": [
  {
   "to": "passage/arbaun-38",
   "type": "based_on",
   "inverse": true,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
   ]
  },
  {
   "to": "concept/karamat-al-awliya",
   "type": "basis_for",
   "inverse": false,
   "sources": [
    "source/ibn-rajab-jami-ulum-hikam"
   ]
  }
 ],
 "related": [
  "concept/karamat-al-awliya",
  "passage/arbaun-38",
  "concept/nawafil",
  "concept/hadith-qudsi",
  "person/abu-hurayra",
  "concept/adab",
  "concept/birr",
  "concept/dhikr"
 ],
 "license": {
  "prose": "CC BY-SA 4.0",
  "data": "CC0 1.0"
 }
}