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الحكم العطائية

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212 · 16 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا يَزِيدُ فِى عِزِّهِ اِقْبَالُ مَنْ أَقْبَلَ عَلَيْهِ وَلَا يَنْقُصُ مِنْ عِزِّهِ اِدْبَارُ مَنْ أَدْبَرَ عَنْهُ

His might is not increased by the turning toward Him of whoever turns toward Him, nor is His might diminished by the turning away of whoever turns away from Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عزة الله تعالى صفة من صفات ذاته فى غاية الكمال والتمام فهى منزهة عن الزيادة والنقصان وسبقية العلل

The might (*ʿizza*) of God Most High is one of the attributes of His essence (*ṣifāt al-dhāt*), at the utmost limit of perfection and completeness. It is therefore transcendently exempt (*munazzaha*) from increase and decrease and from being preceded by causes

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.