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عِنَايَتُهُ فِيكَ لَا لِشَئٍ مِنْكَ وَأَيْنَ كُنْتَ حِينَ وَاجَهَتْكَ عِنَايَتُهُ وَقَابَلَتْكَ رِعَايَتُهُ لَمْ يَكُنْ فِى أَزَلِهِ اِخْلَاصُ أَعْمَالٍ وَلَا وُجُودُ أَحْوَالٍ بَلْ لَمْ يَكُنْ هُنَاكَ اِلَّا مَحْضُ الْاِفْضَالِ وَعَظِيمُ النَّوَالِ

His solicitude for you is not on account of anything from you. Where were you when His solicitude turned its face toward you and His watchful care came forth to meet you? In His beginningless eternity there was neither sincerity of works nor the existence of states; rather, there was nothing there but sheer bestowal of bounty and immense largesse.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عناية الله تعالى بك فى الازل حين لم تكن حين لاحين غير معللة بشئ كائن منك من اخلاص أعمال ولا وجود أحوال

God's (exalted is He) solicitude for you in pre-eternity, when you did not exist, at a 'when' where there was no 'when,' is not caused by anything existing on your part, whether sincerity of deeds or existence of states

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 134–135 (printed p. 130) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 134–135 (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.