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اِلٰهِى أَمَرْتَ بِالرُّجُوعِ اِلَى الْآثَارِ فَارْجِعْنِى اِلَيْهَا بِكِسْوَةِ الْاَنْوَارِ وَهِدَايَةِ الْاِسْتِبْصَارِ حَتَّى أَرْجِعَ اِلَيْكَ مِنْهَا كَمَا دَخَلْتُ اِلَيْكَ مِنْهَا مَصُونَ السِّرِّ عَنِ النَّظَرِ اِلَيْهَا وَمَرْفُوعَ الْهِمَّةِ عَنِ الْاِعْتِمَادِ عَلَيْهَا اِنَّكَ عَلَى كُلِّ شَئٍ قَدِيرٌ

My God, You have commanded a return to the traces; so return me to them clothed in the garment of lights and guided by inner seeing, so that I may return to You from them just as I entered unto You from them: my innermost secret guarded from looking upon them, and my aspiration raised above relying on them. Truly, You have power over all things.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الآثار التى أمر العبد بالرجوع اليها بعد وصوله الى صريح المعرفة وخالص التوحيد هى المكونات التى يلزمه اذا تلبس بها حق أو يكون له فيها منفعة وحظ

The traces to which the servant is commanded to return, after his arrival at unalloyed gnosis (*ṣarīḥ al-maʿrifa*) and pure affirmation of divine unity (*khāliṣ al-tawḥīd*), are the created things (*mukawwanāt*) in which, when he becomes engaged with them, some right (*ḥaqq*) becomes binding upon him, or in which he has some benefit and share (*ḥaẓẓ*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 229–230 (printed p. 225) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 229–230 (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.