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كَيْفَ يُشْرِقُ قَلْبٌ صُوَرُ الاكْوَانِ مُنْطَبِعَةٌ فِى مِرْآتِهِ أَمْ كَيْفَ يَرْحَلُ اِلَى اللَّهِ وَهُوَ مُكَبَّلٌ بِشَهَوَاتِهِ أَمْ كَيْفَ يَطْمَعُ أَنْ يَدْخُلَ حَضْرَةَ اللَّهِ وَهُوَ لَمْ يَتَطَهَّرْ مِنْ جَنَابَةِ غَفَلَاتِهِ أَمْ كَيْفَ يَرْجُو أَنْ يَفْهَمَ دَقَائِقَ الاسْرَارِ وَهُوَ لَمْ يَتُبْ مِنْ هَفَوَاتِهِ

How can a heart be illumined while the forms of created things are imprinted upon its mirror? Or how can it journey to God while it is shackled by its desires? Or how can it aspire to enter the presence of God when it has not purified itself of the major ritual impurity of its heedless moments? Or how can it hope to understand the subtleties of the secrets when it has not repented of its slips?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الجمع بين الضدين محال كاجتماع الحركة والسكون والنور والظلمة وهذه الاشياء التى ذكرها المؤلف رحمه الله تعالى أضداد لاتجتمع فان اشراق القلب بنور الايمان واليقين مضاد للظلمة التى استولت عليه من ركونه الى الاغيار والاكوان واعتماده عليها

Joining two contraries (*ḍiddān*) together is impossible, like motion and rest, or light and darkness, coexisting. These things the author (may God Most High have mercy on him) has mentioned are contraries that do not come together. For the heart's being illumined by the light of faith (*īmān*) and certainty (*yaqīn*) is contrary to the darkness that has taken possession of it through its leaning (*rukūn*) toward the others (*aghyār*) and created things, and its reliance (*iʿtimād*) upon them

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 22–23 (printed p. 18) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 22–23 (printed p. 18)

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