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مَتَى آلَمَكَ عَدَمُ اِقْبَالِ النَّاسِ عَلَيْكَ أَوْ تَوَجُّهُهُمْ بِالذَّمِّ اِلَيْكَ فَارْجِعْ اِلَى عِلْمِ اللَّهِ فِيكَ فَاِنْ كَانَ لَا يُقْنِعُكَ عِلْمُهُ فَمُصِيبَتُكَ بِعَدَمِ قَنَاعَتِكَ بِعِلْمِهِ أَشَدُّ مِنْ مُصِيبَتِكَ بِوُجُودِ الْاَذَى مِنْهُمْ

Whenever it pains you that people do not turn toward you, or that they turn their censure upon you, go back to God's knowledge of you. If His knowledge does not content you, then your affliction in not being content with His knowledge is graver than your affliction at the harm that comes to you from them.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العبد لاينبغى أن يكون مطمح نظره الا الى مولاه فلا يفرح الا باقباله عليه ولايحزن الا لاعراضه عنه ولا ينظر الى المخلوقين فى اقبال ولا اعراض ولا مدح ولا ذم فانهم لايغنون عنه من الله شيأ

The servant ought not to direct his aspiring gaze toward anything but his Master (*mawlā*). So he should rejoice only in His turning toward him (*iqbāl*), and grieve only at His turning away from him (*iʿrāḍ*). He should pay no attention to created beings, whether they turn toward him or away from him, praise him or blame him, for they cannot avail him anything against God.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 186–187 (printed p. 182) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 186–187 (printed p. 182)

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.