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قَوْمٌ تَسْبِقُ أَنْوَارُهُمْ أَذْكَارَهُمْ وَقَوْمٌ تَسْبِقُ أَذْكَارُهُمْ أَنْوَارَهُمْ وَقَوْمٌ تَتَسَاوَى أَذْكَارُهُمْ وَأَنْوَارُهُمْ وَقَوْمٌ لَا أَذْكَارَ وَلَا أَنْوَارَ نَعُوذُ بِاللهِ مِنْ ذَلِكَ ذَاكِرٌ ذَكَرَ لِيَسْتَنِيرَ بِهِ قَلْبُهُ فَكَانَ ذَاكِرًا وَذَاكِرٌ اسْتَنَارَ قَلْبُهُ فَكَانَ ذَاكِرًا وَالَّذِى اسْتَوَتْ أَذْكَارُهُ وَأَنْوَارُهُ فَبِذِكْرِهِ يُهْتَدَى وَبِنُورِهِ يُقْتَدَى

There are those whose lights precede their invocations, and those whose invocations precede their lights; there are those whose invocations and lights are equal, and those who have neither invocations nor lights — we seek refuge in God from that! One who invokes does so in order that his heart may be illumined by it, and so he is an invoker; another's heart has been illumined, and so he is an invoker. As for the one whose invocations and lights are equal, by his invocation guidance is found, and by his light he is taken as an example to follow.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

سبقية الاذكار للانوار هو حال المريدين السالكين وذلك لان شأنهم المجاهدة والمكابدة فهم يأتون بالاذكار فى حال تكلف منهم وتعمل لتحصل لهم بذلك زوائد الانوار والى هذا المعنى الاشارة بقوله تعالى والذين جاهدوا فينا لنهدينهم سبلنا

The precedence of remembrances (*adhkār*) over lights (*anwār*) is the state (*ḥāl*) of the aspirants (*murīdūn*) who are wayfarers (*sālikūn*) on the path. That is because their concern is spiritual striving (*mujāhada*) and arduous toil (*mukābada*). So they perform the remembrances with deliberate effort (*takalluf*) and exertion (*taʿammul*) on their part, so that through this, increments (*zawāʾid*) of lights may come to them. This meaning is alluded to in His saying, exalted is He: “And those who strive for Us, We shall surely guide them to Our paths.”

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 207 (printed p. 203) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 207 (printed p. 203)

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.