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مَطَالِعُ الانْوَارِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالاسْرَارُ

The rising-places of the lights are the hearts and the innermost secrets.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

نجوم العلم وأقمار المعرفة وشموس التوحيد مطالعها وموضع شروقها قلوب العارفين وأسرارهم وهذه هى الانوار الحقيقية من المطالع الروحانية بخلاف الانوار الحسية

The stars of knowledge (*ʿilm*), the moons of gnosis (*maʿrifa*), and the suns of the affirmation of divine unity (*tawḥīd*): their rising-places and the place where they dawn are the hearts of the gnostics (*ʿārifūn*) and their innermost secrets. These are the true lights, from spiritual rising-places, as opposed to the sensory lights

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 124 (printed p. 120) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 124 (printed p. 120)

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.