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الحكم العطائية

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225 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

مِنْ تَمَامِ النِّعْمَةِ عَلَيْكَ أَنْ يَرْزُقَكَ مَا يَكْفِيكَ وَيَمْنَعَكَ مَا يُطْغِيكَ

Part of the completeness of His blessing upon you is that He provides you with what suffices you and withholds from you what would make you overstep your bounds.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

وجدان الكفاية من الرزق وعدم الزيادة عليها والنقصان منها من نعم الله تعالى التامة الكاملة على العبد لما له فى ذلك من حصول جميع المصالح الدينية والدنيوية

Finding sufficiency (*kifāya*) in one's provision (*rizq*), with neither excess beyond it nor shortfall from it, is among the complete and perfect blessings of God Most High upon the servant (*ʿabd*), because therein lies the attainment of all his interests (*maṣāliḥ*), religious and worldly

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 172–173 (printed p. 168) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 172–173 (printed p. 168)

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.