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الحكم العطائية

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218 · 12 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

كَيْفَ يَحْتَجِبُ الْحَقُّ بِشَئٍ وَالَّذِى يَحْتَجِبُ بِهِ هُوَ فِيهِ ظَاهِرٌ وَمَوْجُودٌ حَاضِرٌ

How could the Real be veiled by anything, when that by which He would be veiled is the very thing in which He is manifest, existent, and present?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

قد أشبع المؤلف رحمه الله تعالى الكلام على هذا المعنى فى أول الكتاب وأتى فيه بالعجب العجاب وقد نبهنا عليه هناك

The author (may God Most High have mercy on him) has already treated this theme exhaustively at the beginning of the book, bringing forth in it marvels most astonishing, and we drew attention to it there

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 169 (printed p. 165) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 169 (printed p. 165)

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.