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الحكم العطائية

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253 · 18 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

كَيْفَ تَطْلُبُ الْعِوَضَ عَلَى عَمَلٍ هُوَ مُتَصَدَّقٌ بِهِ عَلَيْكَ أَمْ كَيْفَ تَطْلُبُ الْجَزَاءَ عَلَى صِدْقٍ هُوَ مُهْدِيهِ اِلَيْكَ

How can you seek recompense for a work that He has bestowed upon you as an act of charity? Or how can you seek reward for a sincerity that He Himself presents to you as a gift?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العمل الذى يصح طلب العوض والجزاء عليه هو ما عملته لينتفع به غيرك ولم يحصل لك بذلك منفعة ولم يندفع عنك بسببه مضرة

The deed for which it is proper to seek recompense and reward is one that you have done so that someone other than you might benefit from it, while no benefit has come to you thereby, nor has any harm been averted from you on its account

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 206–207 (printed p. 202) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 206–207 (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.