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لَا يُعْلَمُ قَدْرُ أَنْوَارِ الْقُلُوبِ وَالاَسْرَارِ اِلَّا فِى غَيْبِ الْمَلَكُوتِ كَمَا لَا تَظْهَرُ أَنْوَارُ السَّمَاءِ اِلَّا فِى شَهَادَةِ الْمُلْكِ

The worth of the lights of hearts and of innermost secrets is known only in the unseen of the Kingdom (malakūt), just as the lights of the heavens become manifest only in the visible realm of the Dominion (mulk).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

أنوار القلوب والاسرار المشرقة عليها من سماء التوحيد والمعرفة لا يعرف قدرها الا فى غيب الملكوت وهو عالم الآخرة وهنالك يحصل تمام هذه الانوار فمن آمن بالغيب كان له من ذلك الحظ الاوفر كما ان أنوار السماء المشرقة على ظواهر الاجرام لا تظهر الا فى شهادة الملك وهو عالم الدنيا

The lights of the hearts and of the innermost secrets, which dawn upon them from the sky of divine unity (*tawḥīd*) and gnosis (*maʿrifa*), have a worth that is known only in the unseen of the Kingdom, which is the world of the hereafter. It is there that these lights reach their completion. Whoever believes in the unseen thus has the fullest share of that. Likewise, the lights of the sky, which dawn upon the outward surfaces of bodies, become manifest only in the visible realm of the Dominion, which is the world of this life.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 206 (printed p. 202) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 206 (printed p. 202)

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.