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اِنَّمَا أَجْرَى الْاَذَى عَلَى أَيْدِيهِمْ كَىْ لَا تَكُونَ سَاكِنًا اِلَيْهِمْ أَرَادَ أَنْ يُزْعِجَكَ عَنْ كُلِّ شَئٍ حَتَّى لَا يَشْغَلَكَ عَنْهُ شَئٌ

He caused harm to flow to you at their hands only so that you would not find rest in them. He wished to unsettle you from everything, so that nothing might occupy you away from Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

وجود أذى الناس للعبد نعمة عظيمة عليه لاسيما من اعتاد منهم الملاطفة والاكرام والمبرة والاحترام لان ذلك يفيده عدم السكون اليهم وترك الاعتماد عليهم وفقد الانس بهم فيتحقق بذلك عبوديته لربه عز وجل

The harm that people do to the servant (*ʿabd*) is a great blessing (*niʿma*) for him, especially when it comes from those from whom he has grown used to gentleness and generosity, kindness and respect. This benefits him because he no longer finds repose in them, gives up reliance (*iʿtimād*) on them, and loses his intimacy (*uns*) with them, and through this his servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*) to his Lord, Mighty and Majestic is He, becomes realized (*yataḥaqqaqu*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 187–188 (printed p. 183) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 187–188 (printed p. 183)

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.