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لَوْ أَنَّكَ لَا تَصِلُ اِلَيْهِ اِلَّا بَعْدَ فَنَاءِ مَسَاوِيكَ وَمَحْوِ دَعَاوِيكَ لَمْ تَصِلْ اِلَيْهِ أَبَدًا وَلَكِنْ اِذَا أَرَادَ أَنْ يُوصِلَكَ اِلَيْهِ غَطَّى وَصْفَكَ بِوَصْفِهِ وَنَعْتَكَ بِنَعْتِهِ فَوَصَّلَكَ اِلَيْهِ بِمَا مِنْهُ اِلَيْكَ لَا بِمَا مِنْكَ اِلَيْهِ

Were you to arrive at Him only after your vices had passed away and your claims had been effaced, you would never arrive at Him. But when He wishes to bring you to Him, He covers your attribute with His attribute and your quality with His quality, and so brings you to Him by what comes from Him to you, not by what goes from you to Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الوصول الى الله تعالى لايكون الا بمحو صفات النفس وقطع علاقات القلب وشئ من ذلك لايتصور من العبد من حيث هو لان ذلك طبعه وجبلته

Arrival (*wuṣūl*) at God Most High comes about only through the effacement of the attributes of the self (*ṣifāt al-nafs*) and the severing of the heart's attachments (*ʿalāqāt al-qalb*). Yet none of this is conceivable on the part of the servant (*ʿabd*) considered in himself, because that is his nature (*ṭabʿ*) and innate disposition (*jibilla*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 113–114 (printed p. 109) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 113–114 (printed p. 109)

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