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الحكم العطائية

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مَنْ بُورِكَ لَهُ فِى عُمُرِهِ أَدْرَكَ فِى يَسِيرٍ مِنَ الزَّمَنِ مِنْ مِنَنِ اللَّهِ تَعَالَى مَا لَا يَدْخُلُ تَحْتَ دَوَائِرِ الْعِبَارَةِ وَلَا تَلْحَقُهُ الْاِشَارَةُ

Whoever is blessed in his lifespan attains, within a brief span of time, such gracious gifts of God (exalted is He) as do not come within the compass of verbal expression, nor can allusion reach them.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

البركة فى العمر ان يرزق العبد من الفطنة واليقظة ما يحمله على اغتنام أوقاته وانتهاز فرصة امكانه خشية فواته فيبادر الى الاعمال القلبية والبدنية ويستفرغ فى ذلك مجهوده بالكلية

Blessing in one's lifespan is that the servant be granted such discernment (*fiṭna*) and wakefulness (*yaqẓa*) as move him to make the most of his moments (*awqāt*) and to seize the opportunity while it lies within his power, fearing that it will pass him by. So he hastens to the works of the heart and of the body, and expends his utmost effort in them entirely

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 209 (printed p. 205) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 209 (printed p. 205)

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.