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لَيْسَ الْمُحِبُّ الَّذِى يَرْجُو مِنْ مَحْبُوبِهِ عِوَضًا وَلَا يَطْلُبُ مِنْهُ غَرَضًا فَاِنَّ الْمُحِبَّ مَنْ يَبْذُلُ لَكَ لَيْسَ الْمُحِبُّ مَنْ تَبْذُلُ لَهُ

The lover is not one who hopes for some recompense from his beloved, or who seeks some end from him. For the lover is the one who spends himself for you; the lover is not the one for whom you spend.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

المحبة تقتضى من المحب بذل كلياته وجزئياته فى مرضاة محبوبه من غير طلب حظ يناله منه فهذا مما يلزم وجود المحبة

Love (*maḥabba*) requires of the lover that he expend all that he is and has, in whole and in part, in seeking the good pleasure (*marḍāt*) of his beloved, without seeking any share (*ḥaẓẓ*) that he might obtain from him. This, then, is among the things that necessarily follow from the existence of love

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 192–195 (printed p. 188) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 192–195 (printed p. 188)

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.