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قَيَّدَ الطَّاعَاتِ بِاَعْيَانِ الْاَوْقَاتِ كَىْ لَا يَمْنَعَكَ عَنْهَا وُجُودُ التَّسْوِيفِ وَوَسَّعَ عَلَيْكَ الْوَقْتَ كَىْ تَبْقَى لَكَ حِصَّةُ الِاخْتِيَارِ

He bound acts of obedience to specific times, so that the presence of procrastination might not keep you from them; and He made the time ample for you, so that a share of choosing might remain to you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

أنعم الله عليك فيما أمرك به من الطاعات المؤقتة بالاوقات بنعمتين عظيمتين احداهما تقييدها لك بأعيان الاوقات لتوقعها فيها فتفوز بثوابها ولولم يفعل هذا لسوفت بها ولم تعمل بها حتى تفوت فيفوتك ثوابها

The commentary: In the acts of obedience He commanded you to perform at appointed times, God has bestowed upon you two great blessings. The first is His binding them for you to specific times, so that you perform them within those times and thereby win their reward. Had He not done this, you would have kept putting them off and not done them until they lapsed, and so their reward would slip away from you

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 157–158 (printed p. 153) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 157–158 (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.