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الحكم العطائية

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270 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِلٰهِى مِنِّى مَا يَلِيقُ بِلُؤْمِى وَمِنْكَ مَا يَلِيقُ بِكَرَمِكَ

My God, from me comes what befits my baseness, and from You comes what befits Your generosity.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

لؤم العبد الذى ركب عليه يقتضى منه مبارزة مولاه بالعظائم والكبائر وكرم المولى الذى هو متصف به يقتضى منه التجاوز والعفو عن عبده وقبول عذره وهذا الكلام من ألطف وجوه السؤال والرغبة وهو من آداب الدعاء

The baseness (*luʾm*) that has been built into the servant's nature requires of him that he openly defy his Master with enormities and grave sins (*kabāʾir*); and the generosity (*karam*) with which the Master is characterized requires of Him that He overlook and pardon His servant and accept his excuse. This saying is among the subtlest forms of petition and entreaty (*raghba*), and it belongs to the courtesies of supplication (*ādāb al-duʿāʾ*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 223 (printed p. 219) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 223 (printed p. 219)

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.