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لَا تُدْهِشْكَ وَارِدَاتُ النِّعَمِ عَنِ الْقِيَامِ بِحُقُوقِ شُكْرِكَ فَاِنَّ ذَلِكَ مِمَّا يَحُطُّ مِنْ وُجُودِ قَدْرِكَ

Do not let the inrushes of blessings so astonish you that you neglect to fulfil what your gratitude owes; for that is among the things that lower the standing that is yours.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اذا ترادفت نعم الله تعالى عليك فلا ينبغى أن تدهشك عن القيام بشكرها من حيث ترى عجز نفسك عن توفية ذلك وأن لاقبل لك به فتتركه فان الله تعالى رفع قدرك وأعلى أمرك وجعل القليل منك كثيرا

When the blessings of God Most High come to you one after another, it is not fitting that they should so bewilder you that you neglect to give thanks for them, on the grounds that you see your own incapacity (*ʿajz*) to render that in full, and that you are not equal to it, and so you abandon it. For God Most High has raised your worth, exalted your standing, and made the little that comes from you much

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 162 (printed p. 158) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 162 (printed p. 158)

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.