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لَا تَتَرَقَّبْ فُرُوغَ الْاَغْيَارِ فَاِنَّ ذٰلِكَ يَقْطَعُكَ عَنْ وُجُودِ الْمُرَاقَبَةِ لَهُ فِيمَا هُوَ مُقِيمُكَ فِيهِ

Do not look out for a time when you are free of the others [al-aghyār: whatever is other than God], for that cuts you off from finding vigilant attentiveness to Him in the very state in which He has placed you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اذا قام الله تعالى عبدا فى سبب من الاسباب فالواجب عليه أن يوفيه حقه ويلتزم فيه الادب ولا يترقب وقتا ثانيا يكون فيه فارغا منه فان تأميله للوقت الثانى يمنعه من القيام بحق الوقت الاول فيما أقيم فيه وتوفيته بما يجب له

When God Most High establishes a servant in one of the secondary causes (*al-asbāb*), it is incumbent upon him to give it its full due and to hold fast to proper courtesy (*al-adab*) within it. He should not wait expectantly for a second moment in which he will be free of it, for his hoping for that second moment keeps him from fulfilling the claim of the first moment (*al-waqt*) in what he has been placed in, and from rendering to it what is owed to it.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 29–30 (printed p. 25) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 29–30 (printed p. 25)

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