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قُرْبُكَ مِنْهُ أَنْ تَكُونَ مُشَاهِدًا لِقُرْبِهِ وَاِلَّا فَمِنْ أَيْنَ أَنْتَ وَوُجُودُ قُرْبِهِ

Your nearness to Him is that you be witnessing His nearness; otherwise, where do you stand in relation to the very existence of His nearness?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

القرب الحقيقى قرب الله منك قال الله تعالى واذا سألك عبادى عنى فانى قريب وقال تعالى ونحن أقرب اليه منكم ولكن لا تبصرون وقال عز من قائل ونحن أقرب اليه من حبل الوريد وحظك من ذلك انما هو مشاهدتك لقربه فقط

True nearness is God's nearness to you. God Most High has said: "And when My servants ask you concerning Me, I am near" [Q 2:186]. And the Most High has said: "And We are nearer to him than you, but you do not see" [Q 56:85]. And He has said, mighty is He as Speaker: "And We are nearer to him than the jugular vein" [Q 50:16]. Your share (*ḥaẓẓ*) in that is nothing more than your witnessing (*mushāhada*) of His nearness, and that alone

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 167–168 (printed p. 163) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 167–168 (printed p. 163)

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