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اِرَادَتُكَ التَّجْرِيدَ مَعَ اِقَامَةِ اللَّهِ اِيَّاكَ فِى الْاَسْبَابِ مِنَ الشَّهْوَةِ الْخَفِيَّةِ وَاِرَادَتُكَ الْاَسْبَابَ مَعَ اِقَامَةِ اللَّهِ اِيَّاكَ فِى التَّجْرِيدِ اِنْحِطَاطٌ عَنِ الْهِمَّةِ الْعَلِيَّةِ

Your wanting divestment while God has set you in the means is part of the hidden desire; and your wanting the means while God has set you in divestment is a descent from lofty aspiration.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الاسباب ههنا عبارة عما يتوصل به الى غرض ما ينال فى الدنيا والتجريد عبارة عن عدم تشاغله بتلك الاسباب لاجل ذلك فمن أقامه الحق تعالى فى الاسباب وأراد هو الخروج منها فذلك من شهوته الخفية

“The means” here denotes that by which one arrives at some aim to be obtained in this world, and “divestment” denotes one’s not busying oneself with those means for the sake of that aim. So whoever the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), exalted is He, has established in the means, while he himself desires to leave them, that comes from his hidden appetite

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 9–10 (printed p. 5) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 9–10 (printed p. 5)

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.