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يَا عَجَبًا كَيْفَ يَظْهَرُ الْوُجُودُ فِى الْعَدَمِ أَمْ كَيْفَ يَثْبُتُ الْحَادِثُ مَعَ مَنْ لَهُ وَصْفُ الْقِدَمِ

O wonder! How can being appear within nonbeing? Or how can what is originated in time stand firm alongside the One to whom belongs the attribute of beginninglessness?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

لان العدم ظلمة والوجود نور وهما ضدان لايجتمعان … لان الباطل لايثبت مع ظهور الحق كما قال تعالى وقل جاء الحق وزهق الباطل ان الباطل كان زهوقا

For nonexistence is darkness (*ẓulma*) and existence is light (*nūr*), and the two are opposites that cannot come together … for the false (*al-bāṭil*) does not stand firm when the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*) becomes manifest, as He, exalted is He, said: "And say: the Real has come and the false has vanished; surely the false is ever bound to vanish" [Q 17:81].

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 26 (printed p. 22) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 26 (printed p. 22)

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