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مَتَى طَلَبْتَ عِوَضًا عَلَى عَمَلٍ طُولِبْتَ بِوُجُودِ الصِّدْقِ فِيهِ وَيَكْفِى الْمُرِيبَ وِجْدَانُ السَّلَامَةِ

Whenever you seek a recompense for a work, you will be called to account for the presence of sincerity in it. For the one in doubt of himself, it is enough to come away unscathed.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

تقدم أن العمل لاجل حصول الجزاء مدخول معلول وحكينا هنالك من الآثار والحكايات عن العارفين وأرباب القلوب ما فيه مقنع

It was stated earlier that a deed done for the sake of obtaining a reward (*jazāʾ*) is tainted and defective (*madkhūl maʿlūl*), and we related there, from the traditions (*āthār*) and stories (*ḥikāyāt*) of the gnostics (*ʿārifūn*) and the masters of hearts (*arbāb al-qulūb*), what suffices to convince

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 107 (printed p. 103) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 107 (printed p. 103)

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