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الحكم العطائية

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219 · 19 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا تَيْأَسْ مِنْ قَبُولِ عَمَلٍ لَمْ تَجِدْ فِيهِ وُجُودَ الْحُضُورِ فَرُبَّمَا قُبِلَ مِنَ الْعَمَلِ مَا لَمْ تُدْرِكْ ثَمَرَتَهُ عَاجِلًا

Do not despair of the acceptance of a work in which you did not find the presence [of heart]; for it may be that, of works, that is accepted whose fruit you have not perceived at once.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العمل الذى لا يجد صاحبه حضورا فيه ينبغى له أن لا ييأس من قبوله فان ذلك الى الله تعالى فقد يقبل من العمل ما لم تدرك ثمرته عاجلا من وجدان حضور أو حلاوة أو غير ذلك

One who performs a deed and finds no presence in it should not despair of its being accepted, for that rests with God Most High. He may accept a deed whose fruit is not perceived right away, such as the experience (*wijdān*) of presence, or of sweetness (*ḥalāwa*), or something else of the kind

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.