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الحكم العطائية

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282 · 14 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِلَهِى أَنْتَ تَعْلَمُ وَاِنْ لَمْ تَدُمِ الطَّاعَةُ مِنِّى فِعْلًا جَزْمًا فَقَدْ دَامَتْ مَحَبَّةً وَعَزْمًا

My God, You know that even if obedience has not endured in me as a resolute deed, it has endured as love and as resolve.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

جعل عزمه على الطاعة ومحبته لها وان لم يدم عليها فعلا احدى وسائله وذلك صحيح وكم من شخص قد طرد وأبعد فلم يكن عنده عزم ولا فعل جزم

He has made his resolve toward obedience, and his love for it, one of his means of approach (*wasāʾil*), even though he has not persevered in it in deed. And that is sound: for how many a person has been driven off and cast far away, having had neither resolve nor firm deed

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 228 (printed p. 224) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 228 (printed p. 224)

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.