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لَا يَسْتَحْقِرُ الْوِرْدَ اِلَّاجَهُولٌ الْوَارِدُ يُوجَدُ فِى الدَّارِ الْآخِرَةِ وَالْوِرْدُ يَنْطَوِى بِانْطِوَاءِ هَذِهِ الدَّارِ وَأَوْلَى مَا يُعْتَنَى بِهِ مَا لَا يُخْلَفُ وُجُودُهُ الْوِرْدُ هُوَ طَالِبُهُ مِنْكَ وَالْوَارِدُ أَنْتَ تَطْلُبُهُ مِنْهُ وَأَيْنَ مَا هُوَ طَالِبُهُ مِنْكَ مِمَّا هُوَ مَطْلَبُكَ مِنْهُ

None but a thoroughly ignorant person holds the daily litany in contempt. The inrush will still be found in the abode to come, while the litany is folded away when this abode is folded away. The thing most worth attending to is that whose existence cannot be made up once it is lost. The litany is what He asks of you; the inrush is what you ask of Him. And how far above what you ask of Him is what He asks of you!

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الورد عبارة عما يقع بكسب العبد من عبادة ظاهرة أو باطنة والوارد هو الذى يرد على باطن العبد من لطائف وأنوار فينشرح بها صدره ويستنير بها قلبه وسره فالورد ما من العبد للحق تعالى من معاملة وعبودية والوارد ما من الحق سبحانه للعبد من لطف وكرامة

**Commentary:** The litany is a term for whatever acts of worship, outward or inward, come about through the servant's own acquisition (*kasb*). The inrush is whatever comes upon the servant's inner being of subtle graces (*laṭāʾif*) and lights, by which his breast is expanded and his heart and his innermost secret (*sirr*) are illumined. Thus the litany is what passes from the servant to the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), exalted is He, by way of devotional dealing (*muʿāmala*) and servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*), and the inrush is what passes from the Real, glory be to Him, to the servant, by way of gentle kindness (*luṭf*) and gracious honoring (*karāma*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 99–101 (printed p. 95) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 99–101 (printed p. 95)

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