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أَبَاحَ لَكَ أَنْ تَنْظُرَ مَا فِى الْمُكَوَّنَاتِ وَمَا أَذِنَ لَكَ أَنْ تَقِفَ مَعَ ذَوَاتِ الْمُكَوَّنَاتِ قُلِ انْظُرُوا مَاذَا فِى السَّمَوَاتِ فَتَحَ لَكَ بَابَ الافْهَامِ وَلَمْ يَقُلِ انْظُرُوا السَّمَوَاتِ لِئَلَّا يَدُلَّكَ عَلَى وُجُودِ الاجْرَامِ

He has permitted you to look at what is *in* created things, but He has not given you leave to stop at the created things in themselves. *Say: Look at what is in the heavens* (Q 10:101). With this He opened for you the door of understanding. He did not say, "Look at the heavens," lest He point you only to the existence of bodies.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

أمر الله تعالى بالنظر فى المكونات ليس لذاتها لان فى ذلك البعد عن الله تعالى بالنظر الى ما سواه ولم يبح هذا وانما أمرهم بذلك ليتوصلوا بنظرهم فيها اليه لوجود ظهوره فيها

God Most High commanded looking (*naẓar*) into created things not for their own sake, since in that lies remoteness (*buʿd*) from God Most High through looking at what is other than Him (*mā siwāhu*), and this He did not permit. Rather, He commanded them to do so only so that, by their looking into them, they might reach Him, because His manifestation (*ẓuhūr*) is present in them

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 119 (printed p. 115) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 119 (printed p. 115)

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