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اِلٰهِى قَدْ عَلِمْتُ بِاخْتِلَافِ الْآثَارِ وَتَنَقُّلَاتِ الْاَطْوَارِ أَنَّ مُرَادَكَ مِنِّى أَنْ تَتَعَرَّفَ اِلَىَّ فِى كُلِّ شَئٍ حَتَّى لَا أَجْهَلَكَ فِى شَئٍ

My God, through the diversity of the traces and the successive shifts of the phases, I have come to know that what You want of me is that You make Yourself known to me in everything, so that I may not be ignorant of You in anything.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

كان المؤلف رحمه الله يقول اختلاف الآثار علىّ وتنقلات الاطوار بى من الصحة والمرض والغنى والفقر والعز والذل والقبض والبسط والطاعة والعصيان والفقد والوجد وغير ذلك من مختلفات أحوالى التى هى من شؤنك التى تنزلها بى علمت أن منها ارادتك بى أن تتعرف الى فى كل شئ تعرفا خاصا فى حالة خاصة

It is as though the author, may God have mercy on him, were saying: Through the variation of the traces upon me and the shifting of phases within me (health and sickness, wealth and poverty, might and abasement, contraction (*qabḍ*) and expansion (*basṭ*), obedience and disobedience, loss (*faqd*) and finding (*wajd*), and the other diverse conditions (*aḥwāl*) of mine, which are among Your workings (*shuʾūn*) that You send down upon me), I have come to know from them that Your will for me is to make Yourself known to me in everything, with a particular making-known in a particular state

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 226–227 (printed p. 222) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 226–227 (printed p. 222)

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.