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كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ الَّذِى أَظْهَرَ كُلَّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ الَّذِى ظَهَرَ بِكُلِّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ الَّذِى ظَهَرَ فِى كُلِّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ الَّذِى ظَهَرَ لِكُلِّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ الظَّاهِرُ قَبْلَ وُجُودِ كُلِّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ أَظْهَرُ مِنْ كُلِّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ الْوَاحِدُ الَّذِى لَيْسَ مَعَهُ شَئٌ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَهُوَ أَقْرَبُ اِلَيْكَ مِنْ كُلِّ شَئٍ كَيْفَ يُتَصَوَّرُ أَنْ يَحْجُبَهُ شَئٌ وَلَوْلَاهُ مَا كَانَ وُجُودُ كُلِّ شَئٍ

How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when it is He who made all things manifest? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when it is He who is manifest through all things? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when it is He who is manifest in all things? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when it is He who is manifest to all things? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when He is the Manifest before anything existed? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when He is more manifest than anything? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when He is the One with whom there is nothing? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when He is nearer to you than anything? How can it be conceived that anything should veil Him, when, were it not for Him, nothing would have existence at all?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

بما أشرق عليه من نور الوجود وقد كان فى ظلمة العدم كما تقدم … حتى استدل عليه المستدلون بالاشياء كما قال تعالى سنريهم آياتنا فى الآفاق وفى أنفسهم … اذ هو المتجلى فيها بمحاسن صفاته وأسمائه … فى طور ذلك الشئ ولذلك كان ساجدا له مسبحا بحمده ولكن لانفقه ذلك … لتحقق هذا الاسم له أزلا وأبدا … لان الوجود أظهر من العدم على كل حال … اذ كل ماسواه عدم لا وجود له على التحقيق … لثبوت احاطته بك ووجود قيوميته عليك … حتى استدل به الشاهدون على الاشياء كما قال الله تعالى أولم يكف بربك أنه على كل شئ شهيد

… by virtue of the light of existence (*nūr al-wujūd*) that shone upon it, when it had been in the darkness of nonexistence (*ẓulmat al-ʿadam*), as was set out earlier … so that those who seek proof (*al-mustadillūn*) inferred Him from things, as He (exalted is He) said: "We shall show them Our signs on the horizons and within themselves" … since it is He who discloses Himself (*al-mutajallī*) in them through the beauties of His attributes and names … in the mode (*ṭawr*) of that thing; and for this reason it is prostrate before Him, glorifying Him with His praise, though we do not understand that … because this name is realized for Him from pre-eternity to post-eternity (*azalan wa-abadan*) … because existence is in every case more manifest than nonexistence … since everything other than Him is nonexistence, having no existence in reality (*ʿalā al-taḥqīq*) … because His encompassing (*iḥāṭa*) of you is established and His sustaining self-subsistence (*qayyūmiyya*) over you is present … so that the witnesses (*al-shāhidūn*) inferred things by means of Him, as God (exalted is He) said: "Is it not sufficient regarding your Lord that He is Witness over all things?"

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 25–26 (printed p. 21) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 25–26 (printed p. 21)

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