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الحكم العطائية

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مَا أَحْبَبْتَ شَيْأً اِلَّا كُنْتَ لَهُ عَبْدًا وَهُوَ لَا يُحِبُّ أَنْ تَكُونَ لِغَيْرِهِ عَبْدًا

You never love a thing without becoming its slave, and He does not love that you be a slave to anything other than Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

المحبة للشئ تقتضى الانقياد له وشدة العلاقة به وأن لا يبغى به بدلا كما قيل حبك للشئ يعمى ويصم وذلك معنى استعباده للمحب له فمن أحب غير الله عز وجل فقد استعبده ذلك الغير كائنا ما كان والله لا يحب أن تكون لغيره عبدا ولا يرضى بذلك

Love (*maḥabba*) for a thing entails submission (*inqiyād*) to it, an intense attachment (*ʿalāqa*) to it, and not seeking any substitute in its place, as has been said: "Your love for a thing makes you blind and deaf." This is what is meant by the thing's enslaving (*istiʿbād*) the one who loves it. Thus whoever loves other than God, Mighty and Majestic is He, has been enslaved by that other, whatever it may be. And God does not love that you be a slave to other than Him, nor is He pleased with that

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 166 (printed p. 162) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 166 (printed p. 162)

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.