Skip to the content
Mashrabaمشربة

The commentators side by side

One passage at a time. Each column is a commentator; each row gathers the comments on the same words, so readings and emphases can be compared.

الحكم العطائية

←Read ¶278 in the text

278 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِلٰهِى كُلَّمَا اَخْرَسَنِى لُؤْمِى اَنْطَقَنِى كَرَمُكَ وَكُلَّمَا آيَسَتْنِى أَوْصَافِى أَطْمَعَتْنِى مِنَّتُكَ

My God, whenever my baseness strikes me dumb, Your generosity makes me speak; and whenever my own qualities make me despair, Your gracious gift makes me hope.

On the whole passage · 1 of 1

Ibn ʿAbbād

لؤم العبد ومخالفته وعصيانه يخرس لسانه عن السؤال والطلب وكرم المولى وفضله واحسانه ينطقه بذلك وأوصاف العبد الذميمة التى اقتضتها طبيعته وجبلته تؤيسه من حصول الاستقامة على طريق الحق

The servant's baseness, his contrariness (*mukhālafa*), and his disobedience (*ʿiṣyān*) strike his tongue dumb, so that he cannot ask or seek, while the generosity of the Master (*al-Mawlā*), His bounty (*faḍl*), and His beneficence (*iḥsān*) loosen it to speak of these things. And the servant's blameworthy qualities, which his nature (*ṭabīʿa*) and innate constitution (*jibilla*) have entailed, make him despair of ever attaining steadfastness (*istiqāma*) upon the path of the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 227 (printed p. 223) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 227 (printed p. 223)

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.