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124 · 18 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا تَطْلُبْ عِوَضًا عَلَى عَمَلٍ لَسْتَ لَهُ فَاعِلًا يَكْفِى مِنَ الْجَزَاءِ لَكَ عَلَى الْعَمَلِ أَنْ كَانَ لَهُ قَابِلًا

Do not seek recompense for a work of which you are not the doer. It is reward enough for you for the work that He has accepted it.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

المنفرد بخلق أفعال العباد واختراعها هو الله عز وجل فكيف يطلب العبد الجزاء على عمل لا مدخل له فيه على الحقيقة ومعنى كون القبول جزاء قد تقدم

The One who alone creates the acts of the servants and brings them into being is God, Mighty and Majestic. How, then, can the servant seek reward for a deed in which, in reality (*ʿalā al-ḥaqīqa*), he has no part? The meaning of acceptance (*qabūl*) being a reward has already been explained above.

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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