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اِلَهِى وَصَفْتَ نَفْسَكَ بِاللُّطْفِ وَالرَّأْفَةِ بِى قَبْلَ وُجُودِ ضَعْفِى أَفَتَمْنَعُنِى مِنْهُمَا بَعْدَ وُجُودِ ضَعْفِى

My God, You described Yourself as gently kind and compassionate toward me before my weakness came to be; will You then withhold these two from me now that my weakness has come to be?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اللطف والرأفة وصفان لله عز وجل اتصف بهما فى الازل قبل وجود ضعف العبد وفاقته وحاجته وهما مقتضيان لوجود آثارهما فيما لايزال بعد وجود ذات العبد وصفاته وهى اسباغ نعمه عليه وايصال أفضاله اليه

Subtle kindness and tender compassion are two attributes of God, Mighty and Majestic, which He possessed in pre-eternity (*azal*), before the servant's weakness, destitution (*fāqa*), and need existed. Both necessarily give rise to their effects in what is everlasting (*fīmā lā yazāl*), after the servant's essence and attributes have come into existence. These effects are the abundant bestowal of His blessings upon him and the conveying of His favors to him

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.