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الحكم العطائية

←Read ¶199 in the text

199 · 10 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

رُبَّمَا وَرَدَتِ الظُّلَمُ عَلَيْكَ لِيُعَرِّفَكَ قَدْرَ مَا مَنَّ بِهِ عَلَيْكَ

Darknesses may sometimes come upon you, so that He may make you know the worth of what He has graciously bestowed upon you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الظلم أضداد الانوار فما من نور الا وفى مقابلته ظلمة وكل ظلمة على قدر نورها والشئ يعرف بضده كما قيل

Darknesses are the opposites of lights (*anwār*). For there is no light without a darkness set over against it, and every darkness is commensurate with its light. A thing is known by its opposite, as it has been said:

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 161 (printed p. 157) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 161 (printed p. 157)

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.