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الحكم العطائية

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161 · 16 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

حَظُّ النَّفْسِ فِى الْمَعْصِيَةِ ظَاهِرٌ جَلِىٌّ وَحَظُّهَا فِى الطَّاعَاتِ بَاطِنٌ خَفِىٌّ وَمُدَٰوَاةُ مَا يَخْفَى صَعْبٌ عِلَاجُهُ

The ego's share in disobedience is outward and plain, while its share in acts of obedience is inward and hidden; and the treating of what is hidden is hard to cure.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

النفس من شأنها أبدا طلب الحظوظ والفرار من الحقوق فهى لاتسعى الا فى ذلك ولو فى عملها فى الطاعات فضلا عن المعاصى

It is ever the way of the self (*nafs*) to seek its portions (*ḥuẓūẓ*) and to flee from the claims owed [to God] (*ḥuqūq*). It strives after nothing but that, even in its performance of acts of obedience, let alone in acts of disobedience

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 128–129 (printed p. 124) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 128–129 (printed p. 124)

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.