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الحكم العطائية

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209 · 13 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

مَافَاتَ مِنْ عُمُرِكَ لَا عِوَضَ لَهُ وَمَا حَصَلَ لَكَ مِنْهُ لَا قِيمَةَ لَهُ

What has passed of your lifetime has no substitute, and what you have attained of it has no price.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عمر العبد ميدان لاعماله الصالحة المقربة له من الله تعالى والموجبة له جزيل الثواب فى الدار الآخرة وهذه هى السعادة التى لها يكدح العبد ويسعى من أجلها وليس له منها الا ما سعى

The servant's (*ʿabd*) life is an arena (*maydān*) for his righteous deeds (*aʿmāl ṣāliḥa*), which bring him near to God, Exalted is He, and which earn him an abundant reward (*thawāb*) in the Abode of the Hereafter (*al-dār al-ākhira*). This is the felicity (*saʿāda*) toward which the servant toils and for whose sake he strives, and he has of it nothing but what he has striven for.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 164–166 (printed p. 160) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 164–166 (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.