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لِيُخَفِّفْ أَلَمَ الْبَلَاءِ عَلَيْكَ عِلْمُكَ بِانَّهُ سُبْحَانَهُ هُوَ الْمُبْلِى لَكَ فَالَّذِى وَاجَهَتْكَ مِنْهُ الْأَقْدَارُ هُوَ الَّذِى عَوَّدَكَ حُسْنَ الِاخْتِيَارِ

Let your knowledge that He (glory be to Him) is the One who tries you lighten for you the pain of affliction. For the One from whom the decrees come to meet you is the very One who has accustomed you to His fair choosing.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اذا علم العبد أن الله تعالى رحيم به ومستعطف عليه وناظر اليه فى كل ما يورده عليه من أنواع البلايا والرزايا ينبغى له أن لايكترث بذلك ولايباليه فانه لم يتعود منه الاخيرا له فليحسن به ظنه

When the servant knows that God Most High is merciful toward him, tenderly inclined toward him, and watching over him in every kind of affliction and calamity that He brings upon him, he ought not to be troubled by it or give it any heed. For he has grown accustomed to nothing from Him but what is good for him; so let him think well of Him (*ḥusn al-ẓann*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 90–91 (printed p. 86) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 90–91 (printed p. 86)

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