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عَلِمَ قِلَّةَ نُهُوضِ الْعِبَادِ اِلَى مُعَامَلَتِهِ فَاَوْجَبَ عَلَيْهِمْ وُجُودَ طَاعَتِهِ فَسَاقَهُمْ اِلَيْهَا بِسَلَاسِلِ الْاِيجَابِ عَجِبَ رَبُّكَ مِنْ قَوْمٍ يُسَاقُونَ اِلَى الْجَنَّةِ بِالسَّلَاسِلِ

He knew how seldom His servants would rise up to deal with Him, so He made the performance of obedience to Him obligatory upon them, and thus drove them toward it with the chains of obligation. "Your Lord marvels at a people who are driven to Paradise in chains."

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Ibn ʿAbbād

لما علم الله تعالى قلة نهوض العباد الى معاملته الواجبة له عليهم من اقامة العبودية لمشاهدة الربوبية فى حال طواعية منهم اذ فى ذلك قرة أعينهم وغاية نعيمهم أوجب عليهم وجود طاعته على حال كراهية منهم لاجل ما خوفهم به ان لم يفعلوا

Since God (exalted is He) knew how little His servants would rise of their own accord to the dealings with Him that they owe Him, namely the establishment of servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*) through the contemplation (*mushāhada*) of Lordship (*rubūbiyya*), for in that lies the coolness of their eyes and the utmost of their bliss, He made the actual performance of obedience to Him obligatory upon them even while they were unwilling, because of what He made them fear should they fail to do it

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 158–159 (printed p. 154) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 158–159 (printed p. 154)

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.