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الحكم العطائية

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عَلِمَ أَنَّكَ لَا تَقْبَلُ النُّصْحَ الْمُجَرَّدَ فَذَوَّقَكَ مِنْ ذَوَاقِهَا مَا يُسَهِّلُ عَلَيْكَ وُجُودَ فِرَاقِهَا

He knew that you would not accept bare counsel, so He let you taste enough of its [the world's] taste to make parting from it easy for you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

النصح المجرد لايقبله الا من لم يستحكم فيه حب العاجلة والانس بلذاتها الفانية وكان كريم الطبع سهل القياد وأما من رسخت فيه تلك الخبائث وتمكنت من باطنه وكان لئيم السجية صعب المقادة فلابد فى قصد هدايته وارشاده من زيادة على النصح والوعظ وهو وجود مايقهره ويجبره

Bare counsel is accepted only by one in whom love of the fleeting world (*al-ʿājila*) and intimacy (*uns*) with its perishing pleasures have not taken firm hold, and who is of noble nature and easily led. As for one in whom those vile things have become rooted and have settled firmly in his inner being (*bāṭin*), and who is of base disposition and hard to lead, then in seeking to guide him (*hidāya*) and set him aright (*irshād*) there must be something beyond counsel and admonition (*waʿẓ*): namely, the occurrence of something that overpowers him and compels him

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 177 (printed p. 173) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 177 (printed p. 173)

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.