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مَتَى أَطْلَقَ لِسَانَكَ بِالطَّلَبِ فَاعْلَمْ أَنَّهُ يُرِيدُ أَنْ يُعْطِيَكَ

Whenever He sets your tongue free to ask, know that He wills to give to you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اطلاق اللسان بالطلب هو أن يحل عنه عقدة الصمت الذى أوجبه الاستغناء بالاغيار وعدم رؤية الفاقة والافتقار فاذا حل عنه هذه العقدة بشهود فقره وفاقته وأطلق لسانه بالطلب كان اذ ذاك داعيا بلسان الاضطرار

The loosening of the tongue in asking means that He unties from it the knot of silence (*ṣamt*) that had been imposed by self-sufficiency (*istighnāʾ*) through created things other than God (*aghyār*), and by failure to see one's destitution (*fāqa*) and neediness (*iftiqār*). So when He unties this knot from it through the witnessing (*shuhūd*) of one's poverty (*faqr*) and destitution, and loosens one's tongue in asking, one is at that moment a supplicant (*dāʿī*) calling with the tongue of dire need (*iḍṭirār*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 88–89 (printed p. 84) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 88–89 (printed p. 84)

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.