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مَا مِنْ نَفَسٍ تُبْدِيهِ الَّا وَلَهُ قَدَرٌ فِيكَ يُمْضِيهِ

Not a single breath do you breathe out but there is, for it, a decree that He carries out in you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الانفاس أزمنة دقيقة تتعاقب على العبد مادام حيا فكل نفس يبدو منه ظرف لقدر من أقدار الحق تعالى ينفذه فيه كائنا ما كان

Breaths (*anfās*) are minute spans of time that follow one upon another over the servant (*ʿabd*) for as long as he lives. Every breath that issues from him is thus a vessel (*ẓarf*) for one of the decrees of the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), exalted is He, which He enacts in him, whatever it may be

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 29 (printed p. 25) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 29 (printed p. 25)

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