Skip to the content
Mashrabaمشربة

The commentators side by side

One passage at a time. Each column is a commentator; each row gathers the comments on the same words, so readings and emphases can be compared.

الحكم العطائية

←Read ¶255 in the text

255 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

مَا كَانَ ظَاهِرُ ذِكْرٍ اِلَّا عَنْ بَاطِنِ شُهُودٍ وَفِكْرٍ

No outward remembrance ever came to be except as issuing from an inward witnessing and reflection.

On the whole passage · 1 of 1

Ibn ʿAbbād

أعمال الظاهر تكون تبعا لما يكون فى الباطن وقد تقدم هذا المعنى عند قوله ما استودع فى غيب السرائر ظهر فى شهادة الظواهر فالذكر الظاهر لا محالة ثمرة باطن الشهود والفكر

Outward works follow from what is in the inward. This idea was discussed earlier in connection with his saying, "Whatever is deposited in the unseen depths of innermost hearts (*ghayb al-sarāʾir*) becomes manifest in the visible realm of outward forms (*shahādat al-ẓawāhir*)." Outward remembrance, then, is inevitably the fruit of inward witnessing and reflection.

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.