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لَا نِهَايَةَ لِمَذَامِّكَ اِنْ أَرْجَعَكَ اِلَيْكَ وَلَا تَفْرُغُ مَدَائِحُكَ اِنْ أَظْهَرَ جُودَهُ عَلَيْكَ

There is no end to your blameworthy traits if He turns you back over to yourself; and your praiseworthy traits never run out if He makes His generosity manifest upon you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

من أرجعه الحق الى نفسه ووكله الى عقله وخدمته فقد طرده عن بابه وأبعده عن جنابه وكانت أحواله مدخولة معلولة وأعماله مستقبحة مرذولة ومن آواه اليه وأظهر جوده عليه فقد اصطنعه لنفسه ورفعه الى حضرة قدسه

Whomever the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*) returns to his own self, consigning him to his own intellect and his own service, He has driven away from His door and banished far from His threshold. That person's spiritual states (*aḥwāl*) are adulterated and defective, and his works are vile and contemptible. But whomever He takes in to Himself, manifesting His generosity upon him, He has fashioned for Himself and raised up to the Presence (*ḥaḍra*) of His holiness (*quds*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 108 (printed p. 104) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 108 (printed p. 104)

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