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اَلْعَارِفُ لَا يَزُولُ اضْطِرَارُهُ وَلَا يَكُونُ مَعَ غَيْرِ اللهِ قَرَارُهُ

The knower's urgent need [of God] never passes away, and his resting place is never with anything other than God.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

معرفة العارفين هى معرفتهم بأنفسهم وبما هى عليه من الفاقة والافتقار الى العزيز الجبار وبقدر ما يتحققون بذلك من أنفسهم تكون معرفتهم بالله عز وجل كما جاء فى الخبر من عرف نفسه عرف ربه

The gnosis (*maʿrifa*) of the gnostics is their knowledge of their own selves and of the destitution (*fāqa*) and utter neediness (*iftiqār*) toward the Mighty, the Compeller, in which those selves stand. To the degree that they come to realize (*taḥaqquq*) this within themselves, so will be their knowledge of God, Mighty and Majestic is He, as has come down in the report (*khabar*): "Whoever knows himself knows his Lord."

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 89 (printed p. 85) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 89 (printed p. 85)

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