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لَا يَلْزَمُ مِنْ ثُبُوتِ الْخُصُوصِيَّةِ عَدَمُ وَصْفِ الْبَشَرِيَّةِ اِنَّمَا مَثَلُ الْخُصُوصِيَّةِ كَاِشْرَاقِ شَمْسِ النَّهَارِ ظَهَرَتْ فِى الْاُفُقِ وَلَيْسَتْ مِنْهُ تَارَةً تُشْرِقُ شُمُوسُ أَوْصَافِهِ عَلَى لَيْلِ وُجُودِكَ وَتَارَةً يَقْبِضُ ذَلِكَ عَنْكَ فَيَرُدُّكَ اِلَى حُدُودِكَ فَالنَّهَارُ لَيْسَ مِنْكَ وَاِلَيْكَ وَلَكِنَّهُ وَارِدٌ عَلَيْكَ

That special election is established in someone does not mean that the attribute of human nature is gone. Special election is like the rising of the daytime sun. It appears on the horizon, yet it is not of the horizon. At times the suns of His attributes rise upon the night of your existence. At times He withdraws that from you and returns you to your own limits. So the daylight does not come from you, nor does it belong to you. It is an inrush that comes upon you.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

ثبوت الخصوصية للعبد لايلزم منه عدم وصف البشرية لان الوصف البشرى أمر ذاتى لازم للعبد والامور الذاتية اللازمة يستحيل عدمها وانقلابها وانما اللازم من ذلك عدم غلبة أحكام ذلك الوصف على العبد فقط لاجل الوارد الغالب

The establishment of special election for the servant does not entail the nonexistence of the attribute of human nature, because the human attribute is an essential matter (*amr dhātī*) inseparable from the servant, and essential, inseparable matters cannot possibly cease to exist or be transformed. What it does entail is only that the rulings (*aḥkām*) of that attribute cease to prevail over the servant, and this solely on account of the overpowering influx

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 204–205 (printed p. 200) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 204–205 (printed p. 200)

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.