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اِلٰهِى كَيْفَ يُرْجَى سِوَاكَ وَأَنْتَ مَا قَطَعْتَ الاِحْسَانَ وَكَيْفَ يُطْلَبُ مِنْ غَيْرِكَ وَأَنْتَ مَا بَدَّلْتَ عَادَةَ الاِمْتِنَانِ يَا مَنْ أَذَاقَ أَحِبَّاءَهُ حَلَاوَةَ مُؤَانَسَتِهِ فَقَامُوا بَيْنَ يَدَيْهِ مُتَمَلِّقِينَ وَيَا مَنْ أَلْبَسَ أَوْلِيَاءَهُ مَلَابِسَ هَيْبَتِهِ فَقَامُوا بِعِزَّتِهِ مُسْتَعِزِّينَ أَنْتَ الذَّاكِرُ مِنْ قَبْلِ الذَّاكِرِينَ وَأَنْتَ الْبَادِئُ بِالاِحْسَانِ مِنْ قَبْلِ تَوَجُّهِ الْعَابِدِينَ وَأَنْتَ الْجَوَادُ بِالْعَطَاءِ مِنْ قَبْلِ طَلَبِ الطَّالِبِينَ وَأَنْتَ الْوَهَّابُ ثُمَّ أَنْتَ لِمَا وَهَبْتَنَا مِنَ الْمُسْتَقْرِضِينَ

My God, how can anyone other than You be hoped in, when You have never cut off Your beneficence? And how can anything be sought from another than You, when You have never changed Your custom of bestowing gracious gifts? O You who gave Your beloved ones a taste of the sweetness of intimacy with You, so that they stood before You in fond entreaty; and O You who clothed Your friends in the garments of Your majesty, so that they stood exalted by Your might! You are the One who remembers before those who remember; You are the One who begins with beneficence before the worshippers turn toward You; You are the One generous in giving before the seekers ask; You are the Bestower, and then, for what You have bestowed on us, You are among those who ask a loan.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا تعجيب ممن كان على هذا الوصف وهو أعجب من كل عجيب والمعنى فى ذلك بين … التملق هو التلطف فى التودد وترتبه على ذوقهم لحلاوة مؤانسته بين … استعزازهم بعزته هو رفع هممهم عن تعليقها بغير الله تعالى تيها وتكبرا عليها وثقة منهم به … الحق تعالى له الأولية فيما ذكر كما ذكر

This is an expression of astonishment (*taʿjīb*) at one who is in this condition, and it is more astonishing than anything astonishing; the meaning of this is clear … Fond entreaty (*tamalluq*) is gentleness in seeking affection (*tawaddud*), and the way it follows from their tasting (*dhawq*) the sweetness of His intimate companionship (*muʾānasa*) is clear … Their seeking honor through His might (*istiʿzāz*) is the raising of their aspirations (*himam*) above attaching them to anything other than God Most High, out of disdain and haughtiness toward such things, and out of their confidence (*thiqa*) in Him … The Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), exalted is He, has primacy (*awwaliyya*) in what was mentioned, just as was mentioned

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 234–235 (printed p. 230) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 234–235 (printed p. 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.