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الحكم العطائية

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215 · 18 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

الْحَقَائِقُ تَرِدُ فِى حَالِ التَّجَلِّى مُجْمَلَةً وَبَعْدَ الْوَعْىِ يَكُونُ الْبَيَانُ فَاِذَا قَرَأْنَاهُ فَاتَّبِعْ قُرْآنَهُ ثُمَّ اِنَّ عَلَيْنَا بَيَانَهُ

Realities arrive in the state of self-disclosure in condensed form, and after they have been taken in comes their unfolding: "So when We recite it, follow its recitation; then upon Us rests its clear explanation" (Q 75:18–19).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

حقائق العلوم اللدنية التى يقذفها الحق تعالى فى أسرار العارفين عند براءتهم من الدعوى وتحررهم من رق الاشياء وتعرضهم باللجأ والافتقار لما يفتح عليهم المولى يكرمهم الحق تعالى بها تحقيقا لوعده لهم من غير تعلم ولا دراسة

The commentary: The realities of the knowledges bestowed from the divine presence (*al-ʿulūm al-laduniyya*), which God Most High casts into the innermost secrets (*asrār*) of the gnostics (*ʿārifūn*) when they are free of pretension (*daʿwā*), liberated from bondage (*riqq*) to things, and exposing themselves, through seeking refuge (*lajaʾ*) and need (*iftiqār*), to whatever the Master opens to them: God Most High honors them with these in fulfilment of His promise to them, without instruction or study

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 168 (printed p. 164) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 168 (printed p. 164)

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.