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الحكم العطائية

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عِبَارَاتُهُمْ اِمَّا لِفَيَضَانِ وَجْدٍ أَوْ لِقَصْدِ هِدَايَةِ مُرِيدٍ فَالْاَوَّلُ حَالُ السَّالِكِينَ وَالثَّانِى حَالُ أَرْبَابِ الْمُكْنَةِ وَالْمُحَقِّقِينَ

Their utterances arise either from an overflowing of ecstasy, or from the intention of guiding an aspirant. The first is the state of the wayfarers; the second is the state of those who possess firm establishment and of the realized ones.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

انما يقع التعبير منهم عما يطالعون به من الامور الغيبية والعلوم الاشهادية لاحد معنيين اما حال غلبة الوجد عليهم وفيضانه وهم معذورون فى ذلك لوجود الغلبة وهذا حال السالكين من أهل الهداية واما لقصد هداية مريد فيلزمهم ذلك لما فيه من فائدة الارشاد والهداية وهذا حال أهل التمكين

They give verbal expression (*taʿbīr*) to what is disclosed to them of unseen matters (*al-umūr al-ghaybiyya*) and of the sciences of witnessing (*al-ʿulūm al-ishhādiyya*) for one of two reasons only. The first is a state in which ecstasy overpowers them (*ghalabat al-wajd*) and overflows, and they are excused in this because of the presence of that overpowering. This is the state of the wayfarers among the people of guidance (*ahl al-hidāya*). The second is the intention of guiding an aspirant, and in that case it is incumbent upon them, because of the benefit of direction (*irshād*) and guidance it contains. This is the state of the people of firm establishment (*ahl al-tamkīn*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 145 (printed p. 141) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 145 (printed p. 141)

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.