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الحكم العطائية

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280 · 14 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِلٰهِى حُكْمُكَ النَّافِذُ وَمَشِيئَتُكَ الْقَاهِرَةُ لَمْ يَتْرُكَا لِذِى مَقَالٍ مَقَالًا وَلَا لِذِى حَالٍ حَالًا

My God, Your decree that is carried into effect and Your overpowering will have left no word to one who has words, and no state to one who has a state.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

شهود هذا المعنى يوجب للعبد مقام الخوف والتحقق فيه فان كان ذا قول سديد وحال حميد لم يقطع ببقاء ذلك ولم يغتر بما هنالك لنفوذ حكم الحق تعالى وقهر مشيئته

Witnessing (*shuhūd*) this meaning requires of the servant the station (*maqām*) of fear (*khawf*) and realization (*taḥaqquq*) within it. So if he is one of sound speech and praiseworthy state, he does not claim certainty that it will endure, nor is he deceived by what he finds there, because the decree of the Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), exalted is He, is carried out and His will overpowers.

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.