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أَشْهَدَكَ مِنْ قَبْلِ أَنْ يَسْتَشْهِدَكَ فَنَطَقَتْ بِاِلَهِيَّتِهِ الظَّوَاهِرُ وَتَحَقَّقَتْ بِأَحَدِيَّتِهِ الْقُلُوبُ وَالسَّرَائِرُ

He made you witness [Him] before He asked you to bear witness; so the outward parts spoke forth His divinity, and the hearts and inmost hearts realized His oneness.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

كاشف الله تعالى القلوب والاسرار فى غيب الغيب بحقائق وحدانيته واحاطة قيوميته فلما أشهدها ذلك اضمحلت وتدكدكت وتلاشت فتحققت بذلك الاحدية فلما أظهرها فى عالم الشهادة ملتبسة بالاجسام والهياكل طلب منها الشهادة له بالالهية فشهدت بلسان حالها ومقالها

God Most High disclosed (*kāshafa*) to hearts and innermost selves (*asrār*), in the Unseen of the Unseen (*ghayb al-ghayb*), the realities (*ḥaqāʾiq*) of His unicity (*waḥdāniyya*) and the all-encompassing reach of His self-subsistent sustaining of all things (*qayyūmiyya*). When He made them witness (*ashhada*) that, they dwindled away, were crushed to dust, and vanished into nothing, and thereby they came to the realization of oneness. Then, when He brought them forth into the world of visible witnessing (*ʿālam al-shahāda*), clothed in bodies and bodily frames, He required of them testimony to His divinity, and they testified with the tongue of their state (*lisān al-ḥāl*) and of their speech (*maqāl*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 207–208 (printed p. 203) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 207–208 (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.