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لَا تَطْلُبَنَّ بَقَاءَ الْوَارِدَاتِ بَعْدَ أَنْ بَسَطَتْ أَنْوَارَهَا وَأَوْدَعَتْ أَسْرَارَهَا فَلَكَ فِى اللَّهِ غِنًى عَنْ كُلِّ شَئٍ وَلَيْسَ يُغْنِيكَ عَنْهُ شَئٌ

Do not seek that the inrushes should remain once they have spread out their lights and deposited their secrets; for in God you have what makes you independent of everything, whereas nothing can make you independent of Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

أنوار الواردات المنبسطة على العبد هى تكيف ظاهره وباطنه بكيفيات العبودية وأسرارها المودعة فيه بما لاح له من عظمة الربوبية فاذا أفادك الوارد هذه الفوائد فلا تطلبن بقاءه فى حال كونه ولا تأس على فقده فاذا فقدته فان لك فى الله غنى عنه وعن غيره

The commentary: The lights of the inrushes that spread over the servant are the conditioning of his outward and his inward by the qualities of servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*). Their secrets (*asrār*) deposited within him consist in what has dawned upon him of the majesty of Lordship (*rubūbiyya*). So when the inrush has brought you these benefits, do not seek its continuance while it is present, nor grieve over its loss. When you lose it, you have in God a sufficiency that dispenses with it and with everything else.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 169–170 (printed p. 165) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 169–170 (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.