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اِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يُفْتَحَ لَكَ بَابُ الرَّجَاءِ فَاشْهَدْ مَا مِنْهُ اِلَيْكَ وَاِذَا أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يُفْتَحَ لَكَ بَابُ الْخَوْفِ فَاشْهَدْ مَا مِنْكَ اِلَيْهِ

If you want the door of hope to be opened for you, witness what comes to you from Him; and if you want the door of fear to be opened for you, witness what goes from you to Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الرجاء والخوف حالان عن مشاهدتين فمن أراد أن يفتح له باب الرجاء فليشهد ما من الله له من الفضل والكرم والاسعاف والالطاف فسيغلب عليه حينئذ حال الرجاء

Hope and fear are two states (*ḥāl*, pl. *aḥwāl*) that arise from two acts of contemplative witnessing (*mushāhada*). Whoever wishes the door of hope to be opened to him, let him contemplate what comes to him from God: bounty (*faḍl*), generosity (*karam*), ready help (*isʿāf*), and subtle kindnesses (*alṭāf*). The state of hope will then come to prevail over him

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 123 (printed p. 119) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 123 (printed p. 119)

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.