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اِلٰهِى هٰذَا ذُلِّى ظَاهِرٌ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ وَهٰذَا حَالِى لَا يَخْفَى عَلَيْكَ مِنْكَ أَطْلُبُ الْوُصُولَ اِلَيْكَ وَبِكَ أَسْتَدِلُّ عَلَيْكَ فَاهْدِنِى بِنُورِكَ اِلَيْكَ وَأَقِمْنِى بِصِدْقِ الْعُبُودِيَّةِ بَيْنَ يَدَيْكَ

My God, here is my abasement, laid bare before You, and here is my state, which is not hidden from You. From You I seek arrival at You, and by You I take You as my proof. So guide me by Your light to You, and establish me before You in true servanthood.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا تطارح منه على مولاه ومبالغة فى بث شكواه وتلطف فى سؤال رحماه ومثل هذا يرجى اجابة الدعاء واستحقاق جزيل العطاء … هذه صفة العارفين المحققين لا يسبق نظرهم الا الى الله ولا يطلبون الا منه ولا يكون مطلبهم الا الوصول اليه لا غير … أى لا بغيرك لانك الظاهر قبل وجود كل شئ ظاهر بل بظهورك خفيت المظاهر … وهو نور الايمان واليقين … حتى أكون ممتثلا لامرك مستسلما لقهرك

Here he casts himself down before his Master, pours out his complaint without reserve, and asks gently for His mercy. With such a plea one may hope that the prayer will be answered and that abundant gifts will be granted … This is the mark of the gnostics (*ʿārifūn*) who have realized the truth (*muḥaqqiqūn*): their gaze turns first to God alone, they ask of none but Him, and their only aim is to arrive at Him and nothing else … That is, not by anything other than You, for You are the Manifest before the existence of every manifest thing; indeed, it is by Your manifestation that all manifestations are hidden … And that is the light of faith (*īmān*) and certainty (*yaqīn*) … so that I may be obedient to Your command, surrendered to Your overpowering might (*qahr*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 230 (printed p. 226) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 230 (printed p. 226)

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.