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الحكم العطائية

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285 · 39 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

الٰهِى كَيْفَ يُسْتَدَلُّ عَلَيْكَ بِمَا هُوَ فِى وُجُودِهِ مُفْتَقِرٌ اِلَيْكَ أَيَكُونُ لِغَيْرِكَ مِنَ الظُّهُورِ مَا لَيْسَ لَكَ حَتَّى يَكُونَ هُوَ الْمُظْهِرَ لَكَ مَتَى غِبْتَ حَتَّى تَحْتَاجَ اِلَى دَلِيلٍ يَدُلُّ عَلَيْكَ وَمَتَى بَعُدْتَ حَتَّى تَكُونَ الْآثَارُ هِىَ الَّتِى تُوصِلُ اِلَيْكَ

My God, how can You be inferred from that which, in its very existence, stands in need of You? Does anything other than You possess a manifestness that You do not, such that it should be what makes You manifest? When were You ever absent, that You should need an indicator to point to You? And when were You ever far, that the traces should be what bring one to You?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا تقبيح لأحوال المستدلين على ربهم وهم أصحاب النظر والاستدلال بالنسبة الى أهل المقام الآخر وهم أرباب الشهود والعيان

This is a censure of the states (*aḥwāl*) of those who seek proofs of their Lord (*al-mustadillūn*), namely the people of rational reflection (*naẓar*) and inference from evidence (*istidlāl*), when measured against the people of the other station (*maqām*), namely the masters of direct witnessing (*shuhūd*) and eyewitness vision (*ʿiyān*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 228–229 (printed p. 224) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 228–229 (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.