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مَا نَفَعَ القَلْبَ شَئٌ مِثْلُ عُزْلَةٍ يَدْخُلُ بِهَا مَيْدَانَ فِكْرَةٍ

Nothing has benefited the heart like a retreat by which it enters the field of reflection.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

مداواة امراض القلب واجبة على المريد وامراضه انما تكون من غلبة احكام الطبع عليه من محبته للاضداد ووقوفه مع المعتاد وانقياده الى هوى النفس وأنسه بعالم الحس ومداواة هذا المرض تأتى من وجوه كثيرة وابلغها فى ذلك وانفعها العزلة عن الناس المصحوبة بالفكرة

Treating the ailments of the heart is incumbent upon the aspirant (*murīd*). Its ailments arise solely from the dominance over him of the dictates of natural disposition (*ṭabʿ*): from his love of contraries, his halting at the customary (*al-muʿtād*), his submission to the caprice of the ego (*hawā al-nafs*), and his intimacy with the world of the senses (*ʿālam al-ḥiss*). The treatment of this ailment comes about in many ways, and the most effective and most beneficial of them is withdrawal from people accompanied by reflection

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 20–22 (printed p. 16) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 20–22 (printed p. 16)

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.