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260 · 17 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

الْخِذْلَانُ كُلُّ الْخِذْلَانِ أَنْ تَتَفَرَّغَ مِنَ الشَّوَاغِلِ ثُمَّ لَا تَتَوَجَّهَ اِلَيْهِ وَتَقِلَّ عَوَائِقُكَ ثُمَّ لَا تَرْحَلَ اِلَيْهِ

Forsakenness, the very height of forsakenness, is that you become free of preoccupations and then do not turn toward Him, and that your hindrances become few and then you do not set out on the journey to Him.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

من الخذلان أن تصدك العوائق والشواغل عن التوجه الى الله تعالى والرحيل اليه بل الواجب عليك أن تبادر الى ذلك وترمى بالعوائق والشواغل خلف ظهرك

It is a form of forsakenness that hindrances and preoccupations should keep you from turning toward God, exalted is He, and from journeying to Him. Rather, what is incumbent upon you is to hasten to that, and to cast hindrances and preoccupations behind your back

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 209–210 (printed p. 205) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 209–210 (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.