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197 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

أَوْجَبَ عَلَيْكَ وُجُودَ خِدْمَتِهِ وَمَا أَوْجَبَ عَلَيْكَ اِلَّادُخُولَ جَنَّتِهِ

He has made the performance of His service incumbent upon you, and in truth He has made nothing incumbent upon you except entry into His Garden.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذه عبارة حسنة موافقة لمعنى ما تقدم والمقصود من هذا كله الاعلام بأن الله تعالى غنى عن خلقه لاتنفعه طاعتهم ولا تضره معصيتهم وأن التكاليف كلها انما أوجبها عليهم لما يرجع اليهم من مصالحهم لاغير

This is a fine expression, in accord with the meaning of what came before. The point of all this is to make known that God, exalted is He, is independent (*ghanī*) of His creatures: their obedience (*ṭāʿa*) does not profit Him, nor does their disobedience (*maʿṣiya*) harm Him. It also makes known that He has imposed all the obligations of the Law (*takālīf*) upon them solely for the sake of the benefits (*maṣāliḥ*) that return to them, and for no other reason.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 159–160 (printed p. 155) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 159–160 (printed p. 155)

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.