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الحكم العطائية

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206 · 20 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

رُبَّمَا وَرَدَتْ عَلَيْكَ الاَنْوَارُ فَوَجَدَتِ الْقَلْبَ مَحْشُوًّا بِصُوَرِ الآثَارِ فَارْتَحَلَتْ مِنْ حَيْثُ نَزَلَتْ فَرِّغْ قَلْبَكَ مِنَ الاَغْيَارِ يَمْلَأْهُ بِالْمَعَارِفِ وَالاَسْرَارِ

It may be that the lights come upon you and find the heart stuffed with the forms of the traces, and so they depart from where they alighted. Empty your heart of the others, and He will fill it with gnostic knowledges and secrets.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الانوار الالهية قد ترد على القلب فلا تجد فيه موضعا لاستقرارها لما غلب عليه من رعونات البشرية واستحكم فيه من صور الآثار الكونية فترتحل من حيث تنزل لانها مقدسة مطهرة

The commentary: The divine lights (*al-anwār al-ilāhiyya*) sometimes come upon the heart and find no place in it where they might settle, because of the self-indulgent follies of human nature (*ruʿūnāt al-bashariyya*) that have overcome it and the forms of engendered, worldly traces (*ṣuwar al-āthār al-kawniyya*) that have taken firm hold in it. So they depart from where they alight, for they are holy and pure

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 163–164 (printed p. 159) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 163–164 (printed p. 159)

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.