Mashrabaمشربة

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118 · 10 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

عَلِمَ مِنْكَ أَنَّكَ لَا تَصْبِرُ عَنْهُ فَأَشْهَدَكَ مَا بَرَزَ مِنْهُ

He knew of you that you cannot bear to be without Him, so He made you witness what has issued forth from Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عدم الصبر عن الله تعالى من وجود الاحتظاء بمعرفته وهو حال شريف يقتضى دوام وجود المعية الاختصاصية والمعية الاختصاصية تقتضى دوام المشاهدة والحضور والمشاهدة الحقيقية غير متصورة فى هذه الدار لما هى عليه من الدناءة والنقص والفناء والذهاب

The commentary: Being unable to bear (*ʿadam al-ṣabr*) being without God Most High comes from finding one's portion of delight (*iḥtiẓāʾ*) in knowing Him (*maʿrifa*). It is a noble state (*ḥāl*), one that requires the unbroken presence of the special companionship (*al-maʿiyya al-ikhtiṣāṣiyya*), and the special companionship in turn requires unbroken witnessing (*mushāhada*) and presence (*ḥuḍūr*). Yet true witnessing cannot be conceived in this abode, given the lowliness, deficiency, transience, and passing away that are its condition

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 104 (printed p. 100) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 104 (printed p. 100)

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.