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مَنْ أَكْرَمَكَ اِنَّمَا أَكْرَمَ فِيكَ جَمِيلَ سِتْرِهِ فَالْحَمْدُ لِمَنْ سَتَرَكَ لَيْسَ الْحَمْدُ لِمَنْ أَكْرَمَكَ وَشَكَرَكَ

Whoever honours you is honouring in you nothing but the beauty of His veiling. So praise is due to the One who veiled you, not to the one who honoured you and thanked you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العبد محل الآفات والعيوب وستر الله الجميل هو الذى يحبب الناس الى الناس فاذا أكرمك أحد فلا يذهبن ذلك بك الى أن ترى لنفسك وصفا محمودا تستحق به الاكرام فتكون جاهلا بنفسك

The servant (*ʿabd*) is the locus of blights (*āfāt*) and defects (*ʿuyūb*), and it is God's beautiful veiling that makes people beloved to people. So if someone honors you, let that not carry you off into seeing in yourself some praiseworthy quality by which you deserve to be honored, for then you would be ignorant of your own self (*nafs*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 115–116 (printed p. 111) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 115–116 (printed p. 111)

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.