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مَا تَوَقَّفَ مَطْلَبٌ أَنْتَ طَالِبُهُ بِرَبِّكَ وَلَا تَيَسَّرَ مَطْلَبٌ أَنْتَ طَالِبُهُ بِنَفْسِكَ

No aim you pursue through your Lord ever stalls, and no aim you pursue through yourself is ever made easy.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

من أنزل حوائجه بالله تعالى والتجأ اليه وتوكل فى أمره كله عليه كفاه كل مؤنة وقرب عليه كل بعيد ويسر عليه كل عسير ومن سكن الى علمه وعقله واعتمد على قوته وحوله وكله الله الى نفسه وخذله وحرمه توفيقه وأهمله فلم تنجح مطالبه

Whoever lays his needs before God (Exalted is He), takes refuge (*iltijāʾ*) in Him, and places his trust (*tawakkul*) in Him in all his affairs, God suffices him against every burden, brings near to him all that is distant, and makes easy for him all that is hard. But whoever rests content with his own knowledge and intellect, and relies (*iʿtimād*) on his own strength (*quwwa*) and power (*ḥawl*), God leaves him to his own self, forsakes him (*khidhlān*), withholds from him His enabling grace (*tawfīq*), and abandons him to neglect, so that his requests do not succeed

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 31–32 (printed p. 27) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 31–32 (printed p. 27)

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.