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الحكم العطائية

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25 · 18 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا تَسْتَغْرِبْ وُقُوعَ الْاَكْدَارِ مَادُمْتَ فِى هَذِهِ الدَّارِ فَاِنَّهَا مَا أَبْرَزَتْ اِلَّا مَا هُوَ مُسْتَحَقُّ وَصْفِهَا وَوَاجِبُ نَعْتِهَا

Do not find it strange that troubles should befall you so long as you are in this abode, for it has brought forth nothing but what its description merits and what its nature necessarily entails.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

جعل الله تعالى الدنيا دار فتنة وابتلاء ليعمل كل أحد فيها على مقتضى ما سبق له ويوفى جزاءه فى الدار الآخرة

God Most High made this world (*al-dunyā*) an abode of trial (*fitna*) and testing (*ibtilāʾ*), so that each person might act in it according to what had been foreordained for him (*mā sabaqa lahu*), and be paid his recompense in full in the abode of the Hereafter (*al-dār al-ākhira*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 30–31 (printed p. 26) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 30–31 (printed p. 26)

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.