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228 · 12 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

إِنْ رَغَّبَتْكَ الْبِدَايَاتُ زَهَّدَتْكَ النِّهَايَاتُ إِنْ دَعَاكَ إِلَيْهَا ظَاهِرٌ نَهَاكَ عَنْهَا بَاطِنٌ

If its beginnings make [this world] desirable to you, its endings make you renounce it; if an outward aspect calls you to it, an inward aspect forbids you from it.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

بدايات الأمور وظواهرها ترغب الجاهل فيها وتدعوه اليها لانها رائقة الحسن مليحة الظاهر فيغتر الجاهل بذلك فتقوده الى ما فيه ضرره وهلاكه ونهايات الامور وبواطنها تزهد العاقل وتنهاه عنها لما أشهدته من سماجتها وقبح باطنها

The beginnings of things and their outward aspects stir the desire of the ignorant one (*jāhil*) and call him to them, because they are of pure, clear beauty and comely in outward appearance. The ignorant one is deceived by this, and so they lead him to what holds his harm and his ruin. But the endings of things and their inward aspects make the intelligent one (*ʿāqil*) renounce them and forbid him from them, because of what they have made him witness (*ishhād*) of their repulsiveness and the ugliness of their inward aspect

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 175–176 (printed p. 171) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 175–176 (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.