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الحكم العطائية

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184 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

كُلُّ كَلَامٍ يَبْرُزُ وَعَلَيْهِ كِسْوَةُ الْقَلْبِ الَّذِى مِنْهُ بَرَزَ

All speech that comes forth comes forth clothed in the garment of the heart from which it issued.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اللسان ترجمان القلب فاذا صفا من الاكدار وتزكى من الاغيار وأشرقت فيه الانوار كانت ترجمانية لسانه على حسب ذلك فيتكلم بالكلام النورانى الذى يلج آذان السامعين

The tongue is the interpreter (*turjumān*) of the heart. So when [the heart] has been purified of turbidities (*akdār*), cleansed of the 'others' (*aghyār*), and the lights (*anwār*) have dawned within it, the interpreting of his tongue will be in accordance with that, and he will speak luminous speech that enters the ears of the listeners

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 141–144 (printed p. 137) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 141–144 (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.