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الحكم العطائية

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226 · 8 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لِيَقِلَّ مَا تَفْرَحُ بِهِ يَقِلَّ مَا تَحْزَنُ عَلَيْهِ

Let what you rejoice in be little, and what you grieve over will be little.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

درء المفاسد عند العقلاء أهم من جلب المصالح فمن زوى الله تعالى عنه فضول الدنيا فرضى بذلك وقنع منها باليسير ولم يتطلع الى زيادة من مال أو جاه فهو كامل العقل حسن النظر لنفسه

Among the intelligent, warding off harms takes precedence over securing benefits. So whoever has had the superfluities of this world (*fuḍūl al-dunyā*) withheld from him by God Most High, and is well-pleased (*raḍiya*) with that, and is content (*qaniʿa*) with a little of it, and does not look eagerly toward any increase in wealth or standing (*jāh*), is perfect in intellect (*kāmil al-ʿaql*) and has looked well to his own good

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 173–175 (printed p. 169) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 173–175 (printed p. 169)

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.