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191 · 21 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا تَمُدَّنَّ يَدَكَ اِلَى الْأَخْذِ مِنَ الْخَلَائِقِ اِلَّا أَنْ تَرَى أَنَّ الْمُعْطِىَ فِيهِمْ مَوْلَاكَ فَاِذَا كُنْتَ كَذَلِكَ فَخُذْ مَا وَافَقَكَ الْعِلْمُ

Do not stretch out your hand to take from created beings unless you see that the Giver acting through them is your Master. Once you are like that, take whatever [sacred] knowledge agrees with you in taking.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذه قاعدة عظيمة يحتاج اليها السالكون المتجردون ليبنوا عليها أحوالهم فيما يصل اليهم من الرزق على أيدى الخلق وقد ذكرها المؤلف رحمه الله بعبارات بديعة محمودة موجزة جمع فيها جملة المعانى التى يحتاج اليها

This is a weighty principle that the wayfarers (*sālikūn*) who have stripped themselves of worldly means (*mutajarridūn*) need, so that they may build their spiritual states (*aḥwāl*) upon it with regard to the provision (*rizq*) that reaches them at the hands of creatures. The author, may God have mercy on him, has set it out in expressions that are wondrous, praiseworthy, and concise, in which he has gathered the whole of the meanings that are needed

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 147–152 (printed p. 143) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 147–152 (printed p. 143)

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.