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التَّوَاضُعُ الحَقِيقِىُّ هُوَ مَا كَانَ نَاشِئًا عَنْ شُهُودِ عَظَمَتِهِ وَتَجَلِّى صِفَتِهِ

True humility is that which springs from witnessing His majesty and the self-disclosure of His attribute.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

شهود عظمة الله تعالى وتجلى صفته هو الذى يوجب للعبد وجود التواضع الذى ذكرناه لأن ذلك هو الذى يخمد النفس ويذيبها ويبطل أمنيتها فما تجلى الله تعالى لشئ الا خضع له

It is the witnessing of the majesty of God (exalted is He) and the manifestation of His attribute that brings about in the servant the humility we have described. For it is this that extinguishes the self (*nafs*), melts it away, and brings its vain hopes to nothing. God (exalted is He) never manifests Himself to a thing without its humbling itself before Him.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 192 (printed p. 188) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 192 (printed p. 188)

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