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الحكم العطائية

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286 · 16 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

إِلَهِى عَمِيَتْ عَيْنٌ لَا تَرَاكَ عَلَيْهَا رَقِيبًا وَخَسِرَتْ صَفْقَةُ عَبْدٍ لَمْ يَجْعَلْ لَهُ مِنْ حُبِّكَ نَصِيبًا

My God, blind is the eye that does not see You watching over it, and lost is the bargain of the servant who has not secured for himself a share of Your love.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الرقيب الحفيظ فمن رأى الله تعالى رقيبا عليه يعلم جميع أحواله ولا يخفى عليه منها شئ استحيا منه وهابه أن يراه على ما يكرهه منه … حب الله تعالى لعبده هو رحمته له وثناؤه عليه واحسانه اليه وحب العبد لربه عز وجل طاعته وموافقة أمره وتعظيمه وهيبته

The Watcher (*al-raqīb*) is the Guardian (*al-ḥafīẓ*). Whoever sees God Most High as a watcher over him, knowing all his states (*aḥwāl*), with nothing of them hidden from Him, feels shame (*istiḥyāʾ*) before Him and stands in awe (*hayba*) of Him lest He see him in a condition that He dislikes in him … God Most High's love for His servant is His mercy (*raḥma*) toward him, His praise of him, and His beneficence (*iḥsān*) to him; and the servant's love for his Lord, Mighty and Majestic, is his obedience (*ṭāʿa*) to Him, his conformity to His command, his veneration (*taʿẓīm*) of Him, and his awe of Him.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 229 (printed p. 225) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 229 (printed p. 225)

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.