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الْمُؤْمِنُ اِذَا مُدِحَ اسْتَحْيَى مِنَ اللهِ تَعَالَى أَنْ يُثْنَى عَلَيْهِ بِوَصْفٍ لَا يَشْهَدُهُ مِنْ نَفْسِهِ

When the believer is praised, he is ashamed before God, exalted is He, that he should be lauded for a quality he does not witness in himself.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

المؤمن الحقيق هو الذى لا يشهد من نفسه صفة محمودة يستحق بها أن يمدح أو يثنى عليه وانما يشهد ذلك من ربه عز وجل فاذا أثنى الناس عليه وذكروا محاسنه استحيى من الله تعالى استحياء تعظيم واجلال أن يثنى عليه بصفة ليست فيه

The true believer is the one who does not witness (*shuhūd*) in himself any praiseworthy quality by which he would deserve to be praised or lauded (*thanāʾ*); rather, he witnesses that only as coming from his Lord, mighty and majestic is He. So when people laud him and recount his good qualities, he is ashamed (*istiḥyāʾ*) before God (exalted is He), with a shame of reverence (*taʿẓīm*) and awe (*ijlāl*), that he should be lauded for a quality that is not in him

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 121 (printed p. 117) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 121 (printed p. 117)

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