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اِذَا الْتَبَسَ عَلَيْكَ أَمْرَانِ فَانْظُرْ أَثْقَلَهُمَا عَلَى النَّفْسِ فَاتَّبِعْهُ فَاِنَّهُ لَا يَثْقُلُ عَلَيْهَا اِلَّا مَا كَانَ حَقًّا

When two matters are confused for you, look to whichever of the two weighs more heavily upon the ego, and follow it; for nothing weighs heavily upon the ego except what is true.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا ميزان صحيح باعتبار غالب الأنفس لانها مجبولة على الجهل والشره فشأنها أبدا انما هو طلب الحظوظ والفرار من الحقوق كما تقدم عند قوله حظ النفس فى المعصية ظاهر جلى وحظها فى الطاعة باطن خفى

This is a sound scale (*mīzān*) with respect to most selves, because they are innately disposed (*majbūla*) to ignorance and greed (*sharah*). Their concern, therefore, is always nothing but seeking their own portions (*ḥuẓūẓ*) and fleeing from what is due (*ḥuqūq*), as was discussed earlier at his saying: "The self's portion in disobedience (*maʿṣiya*) is outward and plain, while its portion in obedience (*ṭāʿa*) is inward and hidden."

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 155–157 (printed p. 151) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 155–157 (printed p. 151)

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.