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اِلٰهِى كَيْفَ أَعْزِمُ وَأَنْتَ الْقَاهِرُ وَكَيْفَ لَا أَعْزِمُ وَأَنْتَ الْآمِرُ

My God, how can I resolve, when You are the Overpowering? And how can I not resolve, when You are the One who commands?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

استبعد من نفسه وقوع العزم منه وجعل مستند ذلك شهود القهر لان من شهد قهره بطل عزمه لانه الغالب واستبعد أيضا عدم العزم وجعل مستند ذلك شهود الامر

He deemed it unlikely that resolve (*ʿazm*) could arise from himself, and he made the basis (*mustanad*) of this the witnessing (*shuhūd*) of [divine] compulsion (*qahr*), because whoever witnesses His compelling power, his resolve comes to nothing, for He is the Overpowering (*al-Ghālib*). He likewise deemed it unlikely that there should be no resolve, and he made the basis of this the witnessing of the command (*amr*)

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.