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مَتَى جَعَلَكَ فِى الظَّاهِرِ مُمْتَثِلًا لِأَمْرِهِ وَرَزَقَكَ فِى الْبَاطِنِ الِاسْتِسْلَامَ لِقَهْرِهِ فَقَدْ أَعْظَمَ الْمِنَّةَ عَلَيْكَ

Whenever He makes you, in your outward being, one who carries out His command, and grants you, in your inward being, surrender to His overpowering, then He has made His gracious gift to you great indeed.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذان الأمران هما اللذان يلزمانك فى اقامة العبودية لربك لا غير فمتى يسرهما الله تعالى لك وأقامك فى مراعاة أحكامهما ووفقك لذلك فقد أعظم المنة عليك فلماذا تتشوف وما الذى تلتمس بعدهما ان كنت عبدا حقيقيا

These two matters are what is required of you, and nothing else, in establishing servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*) to your Lord. So when God (exalted is He) has made them easy for you, established you in observing their rulings, and granted you success (*tawfīq*) in that, He has made His favor upon you great. Why, then, do you crane your gaze in longing (*tashawwuf*), and what is it you seek after these two, if you are a true servant

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 96–97 (printed p. 92) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 96–97 (printed p. 92)

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.