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مَا أَرَادَتْ هِمَّةُ سَالِكٍ أَنْ تَقِفَ عِنْدَ مَا كُشِفَ لَهَا الَّا وَنَادَتْهُ هَوَاتِفُ الْحَقِيقَةِ الَّذِى تَطْلُبُ أَمَامَكَ وَلَا تَبَرَّجَتْ ظَوَاهِرُ الْمُكَوَّنَاتِ الَّا وَنَادَتْكَ حَقَائِقُهَا انَّمَا نَحْنُ فِتْنَةٌ فَلَا تَكْفُرْ

No sooner does the aspiration (himma) of a wayfarer wish to halt at what has been unveiled to it than the voices of Reality call out to him: "What you seek lies still ahead of you!" And no sooner do the outward forms of created beings display their adornments than their inner realities call out to you: "We are only a trial, so do not disbelieve!" (Q 2:102)

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Ibn ʿAbbād

السائر الى الله تعالى يتجلى له فى أثناء سلوكه أنوار وتبدو له أسرار فان أرادت همته أن تقف عند ما كشف لها من ذلك لاعتقاده أنه وصل الى الغاية القصوى والنهاية من المعرفة نادته هواتف الحقيقة المطلوب الذى تطلب أمامك فجد فى السير ولا تقف

As the one journeying to God Most High proceeds along his wayfaring (*sulūk*), lights (*anwār*) are disclosed (*yatajallā*) to him and secrets (*asrār*) become apparent to him. If his aspiration then wishes to halt at whatever of these has been unveiled to it, because he believes he has reached the farthest goal and the furthest limit of gnosis (*maʿrifa*), the voices of Reality call out to him: "The object of your quest, which you are seeking, lies ahead of you. So strive in the journey (*sayr*) and do not halt.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 28–29 (printed p. 24) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 28–29 (printed p. 24)

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.