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لَوْ أَشْرَقَ لَكَ نُورُ الْيَقِينِ لَرَأَيْتَ الْآخِرَةَ أَقْرَبَ اِلَيْكَ مِنْ أَنْ تَرْحَلَ اِلَيْهَا وَلَرَأَيْتَ مَحَاسِنَ الدُّنْيَا قَدْ ظَهَرَتْ كِسْفَةُ الْفَنَاءِ عَلَيْهَا

Were the light of certainty to dawn upon you, you would see the Hereafter as nearer to you than any journey you might make toward it, and you would see the beauties of this world with the eclipse of passing-away already spread across them.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

نور اليقين تتراءى به حقائق الامور على ما هى عليه فيحق به الحق ويبطل به الباطل والآخرة حق والدنيا باطل فاذا أشرق نور اليقين فى قلب العبد أبصر به الآخرة التى كانت غائبة عنه حاضرة لديه حتى كأنها لم تزل

The light of certainty is that by which the realities (*ḥaqāʾiq*) of things become visible as they truly are; through it the true is established as true and the false is shown to be false. The Hereafter is true, and this world is false. So when the light of certainty dawns in the heart of the servant (*ʿabd*), he beholds by it the Hereafter, which had been absent from him, as present before him, so that it is as though it had never ceased

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 116–118 (printed p. 112) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 116–118 (printed p. 112)

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