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←Read ¶207 in the text

207 · 10 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا تَسْتَبْطِئْ مِنْهُ النَّوَالَ وَلَكِنِ اسْتَبْطِئْ مِنْ نَفْسِكَ وُجُودَ الاِقْبَالِ

Do not deem His bestowal slow in coming from Him; rather, deem slow the appearance, from your own self, of turning toward Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

تقدم التنبيه على هذا المعنى عند قوله لاتطالب ربك بتأخر مطلبك ولكن طالب نفسك بتأخر أدبك والعبارتان متفقتان معنى وان اختلفتا لفظا

Attention has already been drawn to this meaning at his saying: "Do not call your Lord to account for the delay of what you seek; rather, call yourself to account for the delay of your proper conduct (*adab*)." The two expressions agree in meaning, even if they differ in wording.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 164 (printed p. 160) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 164 (printed p. 160)

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.