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Mashrabaمشربة

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الحكم العطائية

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289 · 9 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِلٰهِى عَلِّمْنِى مِنْ عِلْمِكَ الْمَخْزُونِ وَصُنِّى بِسِرِّ اسْمِكَ الْمَصُونِ

My God, teach me from Your treasured-up knowledge, and keep me safe through the secret of Your well-kept Name.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اضافة العلم الى الله ههنا اضافة تشريف والعلم المخزون هو العلم اللدنى الذى اختزنه عنده فلم يؤته الا المخصوصين من الأولياء … الصون المطلوب هو صيانته عن رؤية الاغيار عما يتجلى لقلبه من سر الاسرار

The attribution of knowledge to God here is an attribution of ennoblement (*iḍāfat tashrīf*). The treasured knowledge (*al-ʿilm al-makhzūn*) is the knowledge from His very presence (*al-ʿilm al-ladunī*), which He has stored away with Himself and has granted only to those singled out from among the friends of God (*awliyāʾ*) … The guarding (*ṣawn*) asked for is His safeguarding him from the gaze of the others (*aghyār*) upon what is disclosed (*yatajallā*) to his heart of the secret of secrets (*sirr al-asrār*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 230–231 (printed p. 226–227) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 230–231 (printed p. 226–227)

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.