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فَاقَتُكَ لَكَ ذَاتِيَّةٌ وَوُرُودُ الْأَسْبَابِ مُذَكِّرَاتٌ لَكَ بِمَا خَفِىَ عَلَيْكَ مِنْهَا وَالْفَاقَةُ الذَّاتِيَّةُ لَا تَرْفَعُهَا الْعَوَارِضُ

Your destitution is intrinsic to you, belonging to your very essence. The arrival of secondary causes only reminds you of what had been hidden from you of it. And essential destitution is not lifted by passing accidents.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اذا ثبت أن نعمتى الايجاد والامداد لازمتان لك وأنك فى ذاتك عدم لولاهما فالفاقة اذا ذاتية لك والاضطرار لازم لوجودك وان كنت غنيا بوجود النعمتين المذكورتين فان ذلك أمر عرضى والامور الذاتية لاتزيلها الامور العرضية

Once it is established that the two graces (*niʿmatān*) of bringing into existence (*ījād*) and of continual sustenance (*imdād*) are inseparable from you, and that in yourself you would be sheer nonexistence (*ʿadam*) were it not for them, then need is essential to you, and dire want (*iḍṭirār*) is inseparable from your existence. Even if you are made rich (*ghanī*) by the presence of the two graces mentioned, that is an accidental (*ʿaraḍī*) matter, and essential things are not removed by accidental things.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 87–88 (printed p. 83) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 87–88 (printed p. 83)

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.