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لَا تُزَكِّيَنَّ وَارِدًا لَا تَعْلَمُ ثَمَرَتَهُ فَلَيْسَ الْمُرَادُ مِنَ السَّحَابَةِ الْاَمْطَارَ وَاِنَّمَا الْمُرَادُ مِنْهَا وُجُودُ الْاَثْمَارِ

Do not vouch for an inrush whose fruit you do not know; for what is intended by the cloud is not the rains, but rather what is intended by it is the coming forth of fruits.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الوارد مراد لثمرته لا لوجدان حظ نفسك منه كما أن السحابة مرادة لوجدان الاثمار الذى اقتضاه وجود امطارها لا لمجرد وجود امطارها وثمرة الوارد انما هى تأثر القلب به وتبدل صفاته المذمومة بصفات محمودة كما تقدم

The commentary: The inrush is intended for the sake of its fruit, not so that your ego may find its own share (*ḥaẓẓ al-nafs*) in it. In the same way, the cloud is intended for the obtaining of the fruits that the coming of its rains brings about, not merely for the coming of its rains. The fruit of the inrush is nothing other than the heart's being affected (*taʾaththur al-qalb*) by it, and the exchange of its blameworthy qualities (*ṣifāt madhmūma*) for praiseworthy qualities (*ṣifāt maḥmūda*), as was mentioned earlier.

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.