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رُبَّمَا وَجَدْتَ مِنَ الْمَزِيدِ فِى الْفَاقَاتِ مَا لَا تَجِدُهُ فِى الصَّوْمِ وَالصَّلَاةِ

It may be that you find, in times of destitution, an increase (of spiritual gain) that you do not find in fasting and prayer.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

ورود الفاقات يحصل للمريد بها مزيد كثير من صفاء القلب وطهارة السريرة وقد لا يحصل له ذلك بالصوم والصلاة لان الصوم والصلاة قد يكون له فيهما شهوة وهوى كما تقدم وما كان هذا سبيله لا يؤمن عليه فيه من دخول الآفات فلا يفيده تحلية ولا تزكية

Through the coming of states of destitution, the aspirant (*murīd*) gains a great increase in purity of heart (*ṣafāʾ al-qalb*) and cleanness of the inner self (*ṭahārat al-sarīra*), whereas he may not gain this through fasting and prayer. For in fasting and prayer he may have some appetite (*shahwa*) and inclination of the ego (*hawā*), as was said earlier, and in whatever is of this kind he cannot be kept safe from the entry of blights (*āfāt*). So it brings him neither adornment with virtues (*taḥliya*) nor purification (*tazkiya*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 138 (printed p. 134) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 138 (printed p. 134)

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.