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الفِكْرَةُ سَيْرُ القَلْبِ فِى مَيَادِينِ الاَغْيَارِ

Reflection is the heart's journeying through the arenas of the others.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الفكرة التى ألزمها العبد وحض عليها هى سير القلب فى ميادين الاغيار فقط وهى مخلوقات الله ومصنوعاته وأما الفكرة فى ذات الله تعالى فلا سبيل اليها

The reflection that the servant (*ʿabd*) has been charged with and urged toward is solely the heart's journeying through the arenas of the 'others', which are God's created things and the works of His making. As for reflection on the Essence (*dhāt*) of God Most High, there is no way to it

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 210 (printed p. 206) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 210 (printed p. 206)

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.