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الحكم العطائية

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297 · 15 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

اِلَهِى اِنَّ رَجَائِى لَا يَنْقَطِعُ عَنْكَ وَاِنْ عَصَيْتُكَ كَمَا أَنَّ خَوْفِى لَا يُزَايِلُنِى وَاِنْ أَطَعْتُكَ

My God, my hope is not cut off from You even when I disobey You, just as my fear does not leave me even when I obey You.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الخوف والرجاء حالان يتعاقبان على قلب العبد واعتدالهما واستواؤهما هو المطلوب سواء كان العبد فى طاعة أو فى معصية

Fear and hope are two states (*ḥālān*) that succeed one another upon the heart (*qalb*) of the servant (*ʿabd*). Their equilibrium (*iʿtidāl*) and their being held in balance (*istiwāʾ*) is what is sought, whether the servant is in a state of obedience (*ṭāʿa*) or of disobedience (*maʿṣiya*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 235 (printed p. 231) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 235 (printed p. 231)

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.