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الحكم العطائية

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اِنَّمَا جَعَلَهَا مَحَلًّا لِلْاَغْيَارِ وَمَعْدِنًا لِلْاَكْدَارِ تَزْهِيدًا لَكَ فِيهَا

He made it [this world] a place of vicissitudes and a mine of troubles only to make you indifferent to it.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

ورود الاغيار والاكدار الدنيوية على العبد نعم من الله تعالى عليه لان ذلك لامحالة تدعو الى الزهادة فى الدنيا والتجافى عنها ويصرف عنه وجود الغباوة والجهالة لاجل تمسكه بالخيال ومايستضر به فى الحال والمآل

The coming of worldly vicissitudes and troubles upon the servant is a blessing from God Most High to him. It inevitably calls him to renunciation (*zahāda*) of this world and to withdrawal (*tajāfī*) from it. It also turns away from him the dullness and ignorance that arise from clinging to illusion (*khayāl*) and to what harms him both in his present state and in his final end

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 176–177 (printed p. 172) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 176–177 (printed p. 172)

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.