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الحكم العطائية

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مَنْ عَبَّرَ مِنْ بِسَاطِ اِحْسَانِهِ أَصْمَتَتْهُ الاِسَاءَةُ وَمَنْ عَبَّرَ مِنْ بِسَاطِ اِحْسَانِ اللَّهِ اِلَيْهِ لَمْ يَصْمُتْ اِذَا أَسَاءَهُ

Whoever speaks out from the ground of his own good-doing is silenced when he does wrong; but whoever speaks out from the ground of God's good-doing toward him does not fall silent when he does wrong.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

من شاهد احسان نفسه وعمل بطاعة ربه انبسط لسانه بالنصيحة والموعظة لعباد الله فان وقعت منه اساءة ومخالفة انقبض عن ذلك وصمت لما يعتريه من الخجل والحياء وهذه طريقة أهل التكليف

Whoever witnesses (*shāhada*) his own good-doing and acts in obedience (*ṭāʿa*) to his Lord, his tongue opens out (*inbasaṭa*) in counsel (*naṣīḥa*) and admonition (*mawʿiẓa*) to God's servants. But if some wrongdoing and contravention (*mukhālafa*) occurs on his part, he contracts (*inqabaḍa*) from that and falls silent, because of the embarrassment (*khajal*) and shame (*ḥayāʾ*) that come over him. This is the way of the people of legal obligation (*ahl al-taklīf*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 139–140 (printed p. 135) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 139–140 (printed p. 135)

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.