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مَا تَجِدُ الْقُلُوبُ مِنَ الْهُمُومِ وَالْاَحْزَانِ فَلِاَجْلِ مَا مُنِعَتْ مِنْ وُجُودِ الْعِيَانِ

Whatever cares and sorrows hearts experience, they experience only because they have been barred from finding direct vision.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

وجود الهموم والاحزان الدنيوية والأخروية من نتائج رؤية النفس واعتبارها وبقاء حظها وهو الذى منع العبد من وجود العيان فلو قد فنى عن رؤية نفسه وذهب عن مراعاة حظه لظفر بوجود العيان ولم يكن له هم ولا حزن البتة

The presence of worries (*humūm*) and sorrows (*aḥzān*), whether of this world or the next, is among the consequences of seeing one's own self (*ruʾyat al-nafs*), giving it consideration (*iʿtibār*), and the persistence of its share (*ḥaẓẓ*). It is this that has barred the servant (*ʿabd*) from the finding of direct vision. Were he to pass away (*fanāʾ*) from seeing his own self and depart from attending (*murāʿāt*) to his share, he would attain the finding of direct vision, and he would have no worry and no sorrow at all.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 171–172 (printed p. 167) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 171–172 (printed p. 167)

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.