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اِلَهِى اِنَّ الْقَضَاءَ وَالْقَدَرَ غَلَبَنِى وَاِنَّ الْهَوَى بِوَثَائِقِ الشَّهْوَةِ أَسَرَنِى فَكُنْ أَنْتَ النَّصِيرَ لِى حَتَّى تَنْصُرَنِى وَتَنْصُرَ بِى وَأَغْنِنِى بِفَضْلِكَ حَتَّى أَسْتَغْنِىَ بِكَ عَنْ طَلَبِى أَنْتَ الَّذِى أَشْرَقْتَ الْاَنْوَارَ فِى قُلُوبِ أَوْلِيَائِكَ حَتَّى عَرَفُوكَ وَوَحَّدُوكَ وَأَنْتَ الَّذِى أَزَلْتَ الْاَغْيَارَ مِنْ قُلُوبِ أَحْبَابِكَ حَتَّى لَمْ يُحِبُّوا سِوَاكَ وَلَمْ يَلْجَؤُا اِلَى غَيْرِكَ أَنْتَ الْمُؤْنِسُ لَهُمْ حَيْثُ أَوْحَشَتْهُمُ الْعَوَالِمُ وَأَنْتَ الَّذِى هَدَيْتَهُمْ حَتَّى اسْتَبَانَتْ لَهُمُ الْمَعَالِمُ مَاذَا وَجَدَ مَنْ فَقَدَكَ وَمَا الَّذِى فَقَدَ مَنْ وَجَدَكَ لَقَدْ خَابَ مَنْ رَضِىَ دُونَكَ بَدَلًا وَلَقَدْ خَسِرَ مَنْ بَغَى عَنْكَ مُتَحَوَّلًا

My God, the decree and destiny have overcome me, and caprice has bound me captive in the fetters of desire. So be You my helper, that You may help me and help others through me. Make me rich by Your bounty, that through You I may be free of need for my asking. You are the One who made the lights shine in the hearts of Your friends, until they knew You and affirmed Your oneness. And You are the One who removed the others from the hearts of Your beloved, until they loved none but You and sought refuge in none other than You. You are their intimate companion when the worlds have left them desolate, and You are the One who guided them until the waymarks became clear to them. What has he found who has lost You? And what has he lost who has found You? Disappointed indeed is he who is content with a substitute for You, and lost indeed is he who seeks to turn away from You.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا اعتذار واعتراف والله تعالى أكرم من أن يرد عذر من اعتذر اليه أو يخيب أمل من اعترف بذنبه وأقر به لديه … سبب ايحاش العوالم لهم ما هى عليه من الفاقة والافتقار والحاجة والاضطرار فكل واحد منها جالب لنفسه طالب لحظه من كمال نقصه ووفاء بخسه … لما تولى الله تعالى هدايتهم الى طريق التوحيد والمعرفة أبان لهم علامات ذلك ودلائله فعند نظرهم فى تلك العلامات والادلة انشرحت صدورهم بأنوار الايمان واليقين … قد تقدم غير ما مرة أن ماسوى الله تعالى عدم وظلمة وأن الوجود الحق والنور المحقق انما هو الله عز وجل … هذا بين وهو مبنى على ما تقدم الآن من الكلام

This is a plea of excuse (*iʿtidhār*) and an admission (*iʿtirāf*), and God Most High is too generous to turn back the excuse of one who pleads it before Him, or to disappoint the hope of one who confesses his sin and acknowledges it in His presence. … The reason the worlds estrange them is the indigence (*fāqa*) and neediness (*iftiqār*), the want (*ḥāja*) and constraint (*iḍṭirār*), in which those worlds stand. For each one of them draws toward itself and seeks its own share (*ḥaẓẓ*), out of the perfection of its deficiency and the full measure of its meagreness. … When God Most High took upon Himself their guidance to the path of divine unity (*tawḥīd*) and gnosis (*maʿrifa*), He made its signs and proofs plain to them. Upon their contemplating those signs and proofs, their breasts were expanded (*inshiraḥat ṣudūruhum*) by the lights of faith (*īmān*) and certainty (*yaqīn*). … It has been stated more than once already that whatever is other than God Most High is nonexistence and darkness, and that true existence and verified light are God alone, Mighty and Majestic. … This is clear, and it rests upon what has just been said.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 233–234 (printed p. 229–230) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 233–234 (printed p. 229–230)

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.