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مَنِ اسْتَغْرَبَ أَنْ يُنْقِذَهُ اللَّهُ مِنْ شَهْوَتِهِ وَأَنْ يُخْرِجَهُ مِنْ وُجُودِ غَفْلَتِهِ فَقَدِ اسْتَعْجَزَ الْقُدْرَةَ الْاِلَهِيَّةَ وَكَانَ اللَّهُ عَلَى كُلِّ شَئٍ مُقْتَدِرًا

Whoever finds it strange that God should rescue him from his desire and bring him out of the existence of his heedlessness has deemed the divine power incapable, and God has power over all things (Q 18:45).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

من استرقته الشهوة واستولت عليه الغفلة فلا ينبغى له أن يستغرب أن ينقذه الله من أسر شهوته وأن يخرجه من وجود غفلته لما يشاهد من استحكام ذلك فيه فان فى ذلك نسبة العجز الى القدرة الالهية والله تعالى متصف بالاقتدار على كل شئ

One who has been enslaved by appetite and overmastered by heedlessness ought not to find it strange that God should rescue him from the captivity of his appetite and bring him out of the very existence of his heedlessness, merely because of what he observes of how firmly these have taken hold of him. For in that lies the ascription of incapacity to the divine power, whereas God Most High is characterized by power (*iqtidār*) over all things.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 160–161 (printed p. 156) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 160–161 (printed p. 156)

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