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الحكم العطائية

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183 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

تَسْبِقُ أَنْوَارُ الْحُكَمَاءِ أَقْوَالَهُمْ فَحَيْثُ صَارَ التَّنْوِيرُ وَصَلَ التَّعْبِيرُ

The lights of the sages go ahead of their words; so wherever the illumination has reached, the expression arrives.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الحكماء هم العارفون بالله تعالى العالمون به والانوار المنسوبة اليهم هى أنوار معرفتهم وهى قوة يقينهم فان الامور كلها بيد الله تعالى لا شريك له فيها

The sages are the gnostics (*al-ʿārifūn*) of God Most High, those who have knowledge of Him. The lights (*anwār*) ascribed to them are the lights of their gnosis (*maʿrifa*), and these are the strength of their certainty (*yaqīn*). For all matters are in the hand of God Most High, Who has no partner in them

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 141 (printed p. 137) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 141 (printed p. 137)

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.