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الْفِكْرَةُ فِكْرَتَانِ فِكْرَةُ تَصْدِيقٍ وَاِيمَانٍ وَفِكْرَةُ شُهُودٍ وَعِيَانٍ فَالْأُولَى لِاَرْبَابِ الِاعْتِبَارِ وَالثَّانِيَةُ لِاَرْبَابِ الشُّهُودِ وَالِاسْتِبْصَارِ

Reflection is of two kinds: a reflection of assent and faith, and a reflection of witnessing and direct seeing. The first belongs to the people of consideration (those who draw lessons from things); the second belongs to the people of witnessing and inner sight.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

تقدم الآن أن الفكرة سير القلب فى ميادين الاغيار وسيره على وجهين صعود ونزول فالصعود لارباب الاعتبار وهى فكرة ناشئة عن التصديق والايمان وهذا للسالكين وهو حال ترقيهم وهو نعت المستدلين بالآثار على المؤثر

It was stated just before that reflection is the journeying (*sayr*) of the heart through the fields of the things other [than God] (*aghyār*), and that its journeying takes two forms: ascent (*ṣuʿūd*) and descent (*nuzūl*). Ascent belongs to the people of consideration. It is a reflection that arises from assent and faith. This is for the wayfarers (*sālikūn*); it is the state (*ḥāl*) of their rising (*taraqqī*), and it is the mark (*naʿt*) of those who infer the Producer of effects (*al-muʾaththir*) from the effects (*āthār*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 210–211 (printed p. 206) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 210–211 (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.