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اِلٰهِى تَقَدَّسَ رِضَاكَ أَنْ تَكُونَ لَهُ عِلَّةٌ مِنْكَ فَكَيْفَ تَكُونُ لَهُ عِلَّةٌ مِنِّى أَنْتَ الْغَنِىُّ بِذَاتِكَ عَنْ أَنْ يَصِلَ اِلَيْكَ النَّفْعُ مِنْكَ فَكَيْفَ لَا تَكُونُ غَنِيًّا عَنِّى

My God, Your good pleasure is too holy to have any cause arising from You; how then could it have a cause arising from me? You, by Your very Essence, are independent of any benefit reaching You from Yourself; how then should You not be independent of me?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

رضا الله تعالى صفة من صفاته وصفاته قديمة ولذلك امتنع عليها سابقية العلل والقديم لا يكون مسبوقا بشئ … الكلام فى الغنى كالكلام فى الرضا وكأن المؤلف رحمه الله قصد فى مناجاته بهذه الكلمات الاسترضاء والاستعطاف فطلب المسامحة والتجاوز عن أعماله المدخولة وأحواله المعلولة

The good pleasure of God Most High is one of His attributes, and His attributes are beginningless (*qadīma*). For this reason, causes cannot precede them, since what is beginningless is not preceded by anything. … What is said about His self-sufficiency is like what is said about His good pleasure. It is as though the author, may God have mercy on him, intended by these words in his intimate converse (*munājāt*) to seek God's good pleasure (*istirḍāʾ*) and to beg His tender compassion (*istiʿṭāf*). So he asked for indulgence (*musāmaḥa*) and for [God's] passing over (*tajāwuz*) his tainted deeds and his flawed states (*aḥwāl*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 232–233 (printed p. 228) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 232–233 (printed p. 228)

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