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مَا حَجَبَكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ وُجُودُ مَوْجُودٍ مَعَهُ وَلَكِنْ حَجَبَكَ عَنْهُ تَوَهُّمُ مَوْجُودٍ مَعَهُ

It is not the existence of some existent alongside Him that has veiled you from God; rather, what has veiled you from Him is the imagining of an existent alongside Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

تقدم أن لا موجود سوى الله تعالى على التحقيق وأن وجود ما سواه انما هو وهم مجرد فلا حاجب لك عن الله تعالى الا توهم وجود ما سواه لا غير والتوهمات باطلة فلا حاجب لك عن الله تعالى اذا

It has already been set forth that, in very truth (*ʿalā l-taḥqīq*), there is nothing existent save God Most High, and that the existence of whatever is other than He is nothing but sheer illusion (*wahm*). Thus nothing veils you from God Most High except the imagining of the existence of what is other than He, and nothing else. And imaginings are void (*bāṭila*); so, that being the case, nothing veils you from God Most High

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 118 (printed p. 114) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 118 (printed p. 114)

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.