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165 · 20 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

مَنْ عَرَفَ الْحَقَّ شَهِدَهُ فِى كُلِّ شَئٍ وَمَنْ فَنِىَ بِهِ غَابَ عَنْ كُلِّ شَئٍ وَمَنْ أَحَبَّهُ لَمْ يُؤْثِرْ عَلَيْهِ شَيْأً

Whoever knows the Real witnesses Him in every thing; whoever passes away in Him is absent from every thing; and whoever loves Him prefers nothing over Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

فلا يستوحش من شئ ويستأنس به كل شئ كما تقدم من نعت العارفين … فلا يكون منه على الأشياء اعتماد ولا له اليها استناد … من مراداته وشهواته وهذه الأمور التى ذكرها المؤلف رحمه الله هى علامات بلوغ هذه المقامات العلية وبها تصح وتكمل

So he feels estrangement (*istīḥāsh*) from nothing, and everything finds intimacy (*uns*) with him, as was said earlier in describing the gnostics (*al-ʿārifūn*) … Thus he has no reliance (*iʿtimād*) upon things, nor any leaning (*istinād*) toward them … of his wishes and appetites. These matters which the author (may God have mercy on him) has mentioned are the signs of having reached these exalted stations (*maqāmāt*), and through them those stations are made sound and complete.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 133 (printed p. 129) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 133 (printed p. 129)

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.