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غَيِّبْ نَظَرَ الْخَلْقِ اِلَيْكَ بِنَظَرِ اللَّهِ اِلَيْكَ وَغِبْ عَنْ اِقْبَالِهِمْ عَلَيْكَ بِشُهُودِ اِقْبَالِهِ عَلَيْكَ

Let God's regard upon you eclipse the regard of creatures upon you, and be absent from their turning toward you by witnessing His turning toward you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا المعنى هو حقيقة صدق عبودية الله الذى أشار اليه فى المسئلة التى قبل هذه وهو أن لايكون له شعور بما من الخلق اليه من نظر واقبال ولا تشوف اليه ولا طلب له وانما يكون شعوره وتشوفه وطلبه مقصورا على مامن الله اليه من نظره اليه واقباله عليه

This meaning is the very reality (*ḥaqīqa*) of sincerity (*ṣidq*) in servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*) to God, to which he alluded in the matter preceding this one. It is this: that one have no awareness (*shuʿūr*) of whatever reaches him from creatures by way of regard and turning toward him, nor any longing (*tashawwuf*) for it, nor any seeking (*ṭalab*) of it. Rather, his awareness, his longing, and his seeking are to be confined to what reaches him from God: His regard for him and His turning toward him.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 132–133 (printed p. 128) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 132–133 (printed p. 128)

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.