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مِنْ عَلَامَاتِ اتِّبَاعِ الْهَوَى الْمُسَارَعَةُ اِلَى نَوَافِلِ الْخَيْرَاتِ وَالتَّكَاسُلُ عَنِ الْقِيَامِ بِالْوَاجِبَاتِ

Among the signs of following one's caprice is hastening toward supererogatory good works while being sluggish in carrying out the obligatory duties.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذه من الصور التى يتبين بها خفة الباطل وثقل الحق على النفس وماذكره هو حال أكثر الناس فترى الواحد منهم اذا عقد التوبة لاهمة له الا فى نوافل الصيام والقيام وتكرار المشى الى بيت الله الحرام وما أشبه ذلك من النوافل

This is one of the forms in which the lightness of falsehood (*al-bāṭil*) and the heaviness of truth (*al-ḥaqq*) upon the soul (*al-nafs*) become plain. What he has mentioned is the state of most people. You see one of them, once he has resolved upon repentance (*ʿaqd al-tawba*), with no aspiration (*himma*) except for supererogatory fasting and night prayer (*qiyām*), for walking again and again to the Sacred House of God, and for other supererogatory works of that kind

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 157 (printed p. 153) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 157 (printed p. 153)

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.