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159 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

رُبَّمَا أَطْلَعَكَ عَلَى غَيْبِ مَلَكُوتِهِ وَحَجَبَ عَنْكَ الِاسْتِشْرَافَ عَلَى أَسْرَارِ الْعِبَادِ

It may be that He grants you sight of the unseen of His Kingdom, yet veils from you any looking out upon the secrets of His servants.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

من لطف الله تعالى اخفاء أسرار الناس بعضهم عن بعض لاسيما سر يقتضى وجود عيب وهو ظاهر ماذكره المؤلف هنا بدليل الكلام الذى عقبه به

Among the gracious kindnesses (*luṭf*) of God Most High is His concealing the secrets of people from one another, especially a secret that entails the presence of a fault. This is the evident meaning of what the author mentions here, as shown by the statement he places directly after it

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 126–127 (printed p. 122) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 126–127 (printed p. 122)

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.