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رُبَّمَا وَقَفَتِ الْقُلُوبُ مَعَ الْاَنْوَارِ كَمَا حُجِبَتِ النُّفُوسُ بِكَثَائِفِ الْاَغْيَارِ

It may be that hearts come to a halt with the lights, just as souls are veiled by the dense things of the others [al-aghyār: whatever is other than God].

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Ibn ʿAbbād

القلوب نورانية فتحجب بوقوفها مع لطائف الاغيار النورانية من العلوم والمعارف والنفوس ظلمانية فتحجب بمحبتها الكثائف الاغيار الظلمانية من العادات والشهوات فالقلوب محجوبة بالانوار كما أن النفوس محجوبة بالظلمات والحق وراء ذلك كله

Hearts are luminous, and so they are veiled by halting with the luminous subtleties (*laṭāʾif*) of the things other [than God], namely the sciences (*ʿulūm*) and the gnoses (*maʿārif*). Souls are dark, and so they are veiled by their love for the dark, dense opacities of the things other [than God], namely habits (*ʿādāt*) and appetites (*shahawāt*). Thus hearts are veiled by lights, just as souls are veiled by darknesses (*ẓulumāt*), and the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*) lies beyond all of that.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 125 (printed p. 121) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 125 (printed p. 121)

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.