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اِنَّمَا يَسْتَوْحِشُ الْعُبَّادُ وَالزُّهَّادُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَئٍ لِغَيْبَتِهِمْ عَنِ اللَّهِ فِى كُلِّ شَئٍ فَلَوْ شَهِدُوهُ فِى كُلِّ شَئٍ لَمْ يَسْتَوْحِشُوا مِنْ شَئٍ

The devout worshippers and the renunciants feel estranged from everything only because they are absent from God in everything. Were they to witness Him in everything, they would feel estranged from nothing.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العباد والزهاد فى حجبهم عن ربهم لنظرهم لنفوسهم ومراعاة حظوظهم فهم يفرون من الاشياء ويستوحشون منها لانها موجودة فى نظرهم والزهد فى المزهود شاهد له بالوجود

[Commentary] The worshippers and the renunciants remain in their veiling (*ḥujub*) from their Lord because they look to their own selves and attend to their own portions (*ḥuẓūẓ*). So they flee from things and feel estranged from them, since things exist in their view; and renunciation (*zuhd*) of the thing renounced bears witness to its existence (*wujūd*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 103–104 (printed p. 99) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 103–104 (printed p. 99)

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