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246 · 12 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِنَّمَا وَسِعَكَ الْكَوْنُ مِنْ حَيْثُ جُثْمَانِيَّتِكَ وَلَمْ يَسَعْكَ مِنْ حَيْثُ ثُبُوتِ رُوحَانِيَّتِكَ

The created world contains you only in respect of your bodily nature; it does not contain you in respect of the established reality of your spiritual nature.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

انما وسعك الكون من حيث جثمانيتك لوجود المناسبة والمجانسة ووسعه لك باعتبار ماذكرناه انما هو باكتفائك به وقضاء أوطارك منه ووقوف أملك فى نيل حاجاتك عليه ولاخاصية لك فى هذا أيها الانسان

Engendered being contains you only with respect to your bodily form, because of the presence of affinity (*munāsaba*) and kinship of kind (*mujānasa*). Its containing you, in the sense we have mentioned, consists only in your being satisfied with it, your fulfilling your wants from it, and your hope's coming to rest upon it for the attainment of your needs. Yet in this you have no distinguishing property (*khāṣṣiyya*), O human being,

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 202 (printed p. 198) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 202 (printed p. 198)

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.