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227 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِنْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ لَا تُعْزَلَ فَلَا تَتَوَلَّ وِلَايَةً لَا تَدُومُ لَكَ

If you would not be dismissed, then do not take up an office that will not last for you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذه من أمثلة ما تقدم لان الولاية مآلها الى الحزن بسبب وقوع العزل عنها ومقتضى نظر العقل ترك الولاية المفروح بها لئلا يقع فى العزل المحزون به

This is one of the examples of what has preceded, for office ends in sorrow (*ḥuzn*) because of the dismissal from it that comes to pass; and what the consideration of reason (*naẓar al-ʿaql*) requires is the relinquishing of the office in which one rejoices, lest one fall into the dismissal over which one grieves

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 175 (printed p. 171) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 175 (printed p. 171)

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.