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مَتَى وَرَدَتِ الْوَارِدَاتُ الْاِلَهِيَّةُ اِلَيْكَ هَدَمَتِ الْعَوَائِدَ عَلَيْكَ اِنَّ الْمُلُوكَ اِذَا دَخَلُوا قَرْيَةً أَفْسَدُوهَا

Whenever divine inrushes come upon you, they tear down your habits: "Truly, kings, when they enter a town, ruin it" [Q 27:34].

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الواردات الالهية على العبد تمحو عنه جميع رعوناته وتهدم عليه مستمر عاداته ولها سلطنة عظيمة على ذلك فاذا وردت على قلب مشحون بأنواع الخبائث والرذائل أزالت ذلك عنه بمرة وأثبتت عوضا عن ذلك أحوالا علية وأوصافا مرضية

The divine inrushes that come upon the servant erase from him all his frivolous self-indulgences (*ruʿūnāt*) and demolish his ingrained habits (*ʿādāt*), and they wield immense sovereign power (*salṭana*) over this. So when they come upon a heart crammed with every kind of vileness and base trait, they remove all of that from it at a single stroke, and establish in its place lofty states (*aḥwāl*) and pleasing qualities

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 168–169 (printed p. 164) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 168–169 (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.