Mashrabaمشربة

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الحكم العطائية

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مَا طَلَبَ لَكَ شَئٌ مِثْلُ الِاضْطِرَارِ وَلَا أَسْرَعَ بِالْمَوَاهِبِ اِلَيْكَ مِثْلُ الذِّلَّةِ وَالِافْتِقَارِ

Nothing pleads on your behalf like dire need, and nothing brings gifts to you more swiftly than abasement and need of God.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اضطرار العبد هو أخص أوصاف عبوديته ولذلك لم يطلب من العبد شئ أجل منه

The servant's dire need is the most distinctive of the attributes of his servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*), and for that reason nothing more exalted than it is asked of the servant

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 112–113 (printed p. 108) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 112–113 (printed p. 108)

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.