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الحكم العطائية

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248 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

أَنْتَ مَعَ الْاَكْوَانِ مَالَمْ تَشْهَدِ الْمُكَوِّنَ فَاِذَا شَهِدْتَهُ كَانَتِ الْاَكْوَانُ مَعَكَ

You are with the created things so long as you do not witness their Creator; but once you witness Him, the created things are with you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

فرق مابين كونك مع الاكوان وكون الاكوان معك فان كونك مع الاكوان يقتضى تقيدك بها وحاجتك اليها فأنت بذلك عبد لها ثم هى خاذلتك ومسلمتك أحوج ماتكون اليها وهذه حالة خسيسة يقتضيها عدم شهودك للمكون

He distinguishes between your being with created things and created things being with you. Your being with created things entails your being bound (*taqayyud*) to them and your need of them, and by this you are a slave (*ʿabd*) to them. Yet they will forsake you and abandon you at the moment you are most in need of them. This is a base condition, and what brings it about is your failure to witness the One who brings them into being

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 203–204 (printed p. 199) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 203–204 (printed p. 199)

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.