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الحكم العطائية

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اِنَّمَا احْتَجَبَ لِشِدَّةِ ظُهُورِهِ وَخَفِىَ عَنِ الأَبْصَارِ لِعِظَمِ نُورِهِ

He has veiled Himself only because of the intensity of His manifestness, and He is hidden from the eyes only because of the immensity of His light.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذه عبارة تداولها الناس وضربوا لها مثلا بالشمس وذلك أن الشمس نورها أقوى من سائر الأنوار المحسوسة وقوة نورها هى التى حجبت الأبصار الضعيفة عن ادراك كنهها فقد صار ظهورها الذى أوجبه وجود نورها حجابا لها

This is a saying that people have passed around among themselves, and they have offered the sun as a likeness for it. That is because the light of the sun is stronger than all other sensible lights, and it is the very strength of its light that has veiled weak eyes from perceiving its essence (*kunh*). Thus its manifestness, which the existence of its light necessitated, has itself become a veil (*ḥijāb*) for it

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 133–134 (printed p. 129) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 133–134 (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.