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وُصُولُكَ اِلَى اللَّهِ وُصُولُكَ اِلَى الْعِلْمِ بِهِ وَاِلَّا فَجَلَّ رَبُّنَا أَنْ يَتَّصِلَ بِهِ شَئٌ أَوْ يَتَّصِلَ هُوَ بِشَئٍ

Your arrival at God is your arrival at knowledge of Him; otherwise, our Lord is far too exalted for anything to be joined to Him, or for Him to be joined to anything.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الوصول الى الله تعالى الذى يشير اليه أهل هذه الطريقة هو الوصول الى العلم الحقيقى بالله تعالى وهذا هو غاية السالكين ومنتهى سير السائرين وأما الوصول المفهوم بين الذوات فهو متعال عنه

The arrival (*wuṣūl*) at God, exalted is He, to which the people of this path (*ahl hādhihi al-ṭarīqa*) allude is arrival at true knowledge (*al-ʿilm al-ḥaqīqī*) of God, exalted is He. This is the goal of the wayfarers (*sālikūn*) and the final end of the travellers' (*sāʾirūn*) journeying. As for arrival as it is understood between essences (*dhawāt*), He is exalted above it

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 167 (printed p. 163) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 167 (printed p. 163)

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