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اِلَهِى أَخْرِجْنِى مِنْ ذُلِّ نَفْسِى وَطَهِّرْنِى مِنْ شَكِّى وَشِرْكِى قَبْلَ حُلُولِ رَمْسِى بِكَ أَسْتَنْصِرُ فَانْصُرْنِى وَعَلَيْكَ أَتَوَكَّلُ فَلَا تَكِلْنِى وَاِيَّاكَ أَسْأَلُ فَلَا تُخَيِّبْنِى وَفِى فَضْلِكَ أَرْغَبُ فَلَا تَحْرِمْنِى وَلِجَنَابِكَ أَنْتَسِبُ فَلَا تُبْعِدْنِى وَبِبَابِكَ أَقِفُ فَلَا تَطْرُدْنِى

My God, bring me out of the abasement of my self, and purify me of my doubt and my associating others with You before I come to lie in my grave. By You I seek help, so help me; on You I rely, so do not leave me to myself; You alone do I ask, so do not disappoint me; for Your bounty I long, so do not deprive me; to Your Presence I claim belonging, so do not put me far off; and at Your door I stand, so do not drive me away.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

ذل النفس الذى طلب الاخراج منه هو ذلها لغير الله تعالى بالطمع والحرص … الشك والشرك هما سبب وجود الطمع والحرص الموجبين لوقوع الذل والهوان وهذه الأوصاف كلها مجانبة لحقائق الايمان والتوحيد … تعلق بالله تعالى فى كل مطلب من هذه المطالب وأضرب عن الوسائط والأسباب وذلك من تحققه بالتوحيد الذى سأل من مولاه أن يحققه به بتطهيره من أضداده

The abasement of the self (*dhull al-nafs*) from which he asked to be brought out is its abasement before what is other than God Most High, through greed (*ṭamaʿ*) and covetousness (*ḥirṣ*) … Doubt (*shakk*) and associationism (*shirk*) are the cause of the existence of the greed and covetousness that bring about abasement and humiliation (*hawān*), and all of these traits stand apart from the realities (*ḥaqāʾiq*) of faith (*īmān*) and the affirmation of divine unity (*tawḥīd*) … He attached himself (*taʿallaqa*) to God Most High in each one of these requests and turned away from intermediaries (*wasāʾiṭ*) and secondary causes (*asbāb*). That comes from his realization (*taḥaqquq*) of the divine unity in which he asked his Master to establish him truly by purifying him of its opposites

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 231–232 (printed p. 227–228) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 231–232 (printed p. 227–228)

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.