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لَا يَكُنْ طَلَبُكَ تَسَبُّبًا الَى الْعَطَاءِ مِنْهُ فَيَقِلَّ فَهْمُكَ عَنْهُ وَلْيَكُنْ طَلَبُكَ لِاظْهَارِ الْعُبُودِيَّةِ وَقِيَامًا بِحُقُوقِ الرُّبُوبِيَّةِ

Let not your asking be a means of obtaining the gift from Him, lest your understanding of Him grow scant; rather, let your asking be for the sake of displaying servanthood and as a fulfilment of what is due to Lordship.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

لم يأمر الله تعالى عباده بالطلب له والسؤال منه الا ليظهر افتقارهم اليه ومثولهم بالتضرع والخضوع بين يديه ليكون ذلك اظهارا لعبوديتهم وقياما بحقوق ربوبيته لا لان يتسببوا به الى حصول ماطلبوه ونيل مارغبوه مما لهم فيه منفعة وحظ

God Most High commanded His servants to ask of Him and to make requests of Him only so that their utter need (*iftiqār*) of Him might be made manifest, and their standing before Him in humble entreaty (*taḍarruʿ*) and submission (*khuḍūʿ*), so that this might be a manifestation of their servanthood and a fulfilling of the rights of His Lordship. It was not so that they might use it as a means to obtain what they asked for and to attain what they desired, things in which they have some benefit and a personal share (*ḥaẓẓ*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 134 (printed p. 130) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 134 (printed p. 130)

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.