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اِلَهِى مَنْ كَانَتْ مَحَاسِنُهُ مَسَاوِىَ فَكَيْفَ لَا تَكُونُ مَسَاوِيهِ مَسَاوِى وَمَنْ كَانَتْ حَقَائِقُهُ دَعَاوَى فَكَيْفَ لَا تَكُونُ دَعَاوِيهِ دَعَاوَى

My God, if a man's good deeds are evil deeds, how could his evil deeds not be evil deeds? And if a man's realities are mere claims, how could his claims not be claims?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا مثال ما تقدم من أن الكمال المنسوب الى العبد نقصان على التحقيق فما ظنك بنقصانه

[Commentary] This is an illustration of what was stated earlier, namely that the perfection (*kamāl*) attributed to the servant is, in truth (*ʿalā al-taḥqīq*), deficiency (*nuqṣān*). So what do you suppose, then, of his deficiency?

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.