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رُبَّمَا أَفَادَكَ فِى لَيْلِ الْقَبْضِ مَا لَمْ تَسْتَفِدْهُ فِى اِشْرَاقِ نَهَارِ الْبَسْطِ لَا تَدْرُونَ أَيُّهُمْ أَقْرَبُ لَكُمْ نَفْعًا

It may be that in the night of contraction He grants you a benefit you did not gain in the shining daylight of expansion. "You do not know which of them is nearer to you in benefit" (Q 4:11).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

تقدم ان القبض يؤثره العارفون على البسط لما فيه من عدم حظ النفس ووجود قدرتهم على الوفاء بآدابه دون البسط وقد ينفتح لهم فيه من أبواب المعارف ما لا ينفتح لهم فى البسط

It was stated earlier that the gnostics (*al-ʿārifūn*) prefer contraction to expansion, because in it there is no share for the ego (*ḥaẓẓ al-nafs*), and because they are able to fulfil its proper courtesies (*ādāb*), which is not the case with expansion. In it there may also be opened to them doors of gnostic knowledge (*maʿārif*) that are not opened to them in expansion

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 123–124 (printed p. 119) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 123–124 (printed p. 119)

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