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سُبْحَانَ مَنْ لَمْ يَجْعَلِ الدَّلِيلَ عَلَى أَوْلِيَائِهِ اِلَّا مِنْ حَيْثُ الدَّلِيلُ عَلَيْهِ وَلَمْ يُوصِلْ اِلَيْهِمْ اِلَّا مَنْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يُوصِلَهُ اِلَيْهِ

Glory be to Him who has made the evidence pointing to His saints to be none other than the evidence pointing to Himself, and who brings to them only those whom He wills to bring to Himself.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

لا دليل على الله سواه ولا وصول اليه بغيره وكذلك أولياؤه ولما كان الوصول الى الله تعالى لا يكون الا بالعناية والخصوصية ويستحيل أن يكون بطلب أو سبب كان أولياؤه المخصوصون بالقرب منه كذلك

There is no guide to God other than Him, and no arrival (*wuṣūl*) at Him by anything other than Him; and so it is with His friends. Since arrival at God (exalted is He) comes about only through [divine] solicitude (*ʿināya*) and special election (*khuṣūṣiyya*), and it is impossible for it to come about through seeking (*ṭalab*) or a secondary cause (*sabab*), His friends who are singled out for nearness (*qurb*) to Him are likewise

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 125–126 (printed p. 121) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 125–126 (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.