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الحكم العطائية

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¶ 200 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

مَنْ لَمْ يَعْرِفْ قَدْرَ النِّعَمِ بِوِجْدَانِهَا عَرَفَهَا بِوُجُودِ فِقْدَانِهَا

Whoever does not recognize the worth of blessings while possessing them will come to recognize it through the reality of their loss.

Ibn ʿAbbād

Ibn ʿAbbād al-Rundī (d. 792/1390)

Ghayth al-mawāhib al-ʿaliyya fī sharḥ al-Ḥikam al-ʿAṭāʾiyya (the opening of his commentary on each passage; the rest on the linked pages)

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Ibn ʿAbbād

أكثر الناس لايعرفون قدر النعم الا اذا فقدوها وذلك لأجل غلبة الغفلة عليهم حين وجودها عندهم

Most people do not recognize the worth of blessings until they have lost them, and this is because heedlessness (*ghafla*) holds sway over them while they still possess those blessings

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 161–162 (printed p. 157) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 161–162 (printed p. 157)AI

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.