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جَعَلَكَ فِى الْعَالَمِ الْمُتَوَسِّطِ بَيْنَ مُلْكِهِ وَمَلَكُوتِهِ لِيُعْلِمَكَ جَلَالَةَ قَدْرِكَ بَيْنَ مَخْلُوقَاتِهِ وَأَنَّكَ جَوْهَرَةٌ تَنْطَوِى عَلَيْكَ أَصْدَافُ مُكَوَّنَاتِهِ

He placed you in the intermediate world, between His visible dominion (mulk) and His invisible kingdom (malakūt), to teach you the majesty of your rank among His creatures, and that you are a pearl enfolded within the shells of the things He has brought into being.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

خلق الله تعالى الانسان فى أحسن تقويم وأتم تسوية وتعديل وجعل بنيته متضمنة أسرار جميع الموجودات علويها وسفليها لطيفها وكثيفها فصار لذلك روحانيا جسمانيا أرضيا سماويا ولذلك يقال له العالم الاصغر

God Most High created the human being in the finest of forms, with the most complete proportioning (*taswiya*) and balance (*taʿdīl*), and He made his constitution (*binya*) contain the secrets (*asrār*) of all existent things (*mawjūdāt*): the higher and the lower of them, the subtle (*laṭīf*) and the dense (*kathīf*). He therefore became spiritual (*rūḥānī*) and bodily (*jismānī*), earthly and heavenly, and for this reason he is called the lesser world (*al-ʿālam al-aṣghar*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 201–202 (printed p. 197) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 201–202 (printed p. 197)

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.