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الْاَعْمَالُ صُوَرٌ قَائِمَةٌ وَأَرْوَاحُهَا وُجُودُ سِرِّ الْاِخْلَاصِ فِيهَا

Works are standing forms, and their spirits are the presence within them of the secret of sincerity.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اخلاص كل عبد فى أعماله على حسب رتبته ومقامه فأما من كان منهم من الابرار فمنتهى درجة اخلاصه أن تكون أعماله سالمة من الرياء الجلى والخفى وقصد موافقة أهواء النفس طلبا لما وعد الله تعالى به المخلصين من جزيل الثواب وحسن المآب وهربا مما أوعد به المخلطين من أليم العذاب وسوء الحساب

The sincerity of every servant in his works accords with his rank and his station (*maqām*). As for whoever among them belongs to the righteous (*abrār*), the utmost degree of his sincerity is that his works be free of ostentation (*riyāʾ*), whether manifest or hidden, and free of any aim of gratifying the caprices of the self (*nafs*), [his works being done] in pursuit of what God Most High has promised the sincere (*mukhliṣīn*), abundant reward and a goodly final return, and in flight from what He has threatened against those who mix [good deeds with bad] (*mukhalliṭīn*), painful punishment and an evil reckoning.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 16–17 (printed p. 12) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 16–17 (printed p. 12)

Ibn ʿAbbād's Arabic: the opening of his commentary on each passage, transcribed from the page images of the Cairo 1319/1901 print and read twice (each comment links to the page where his commentary on that passage begins; the rest of it is on the following pages, not transcribed). English translations of the commentaries and of the passage are AI (Claude) and marked. Differences are computed by comparing the words each commentator quotes with our working text; they may reflect a different manuscript reading, a paraphrase, or an alignment error. About this text.