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الحكم العطائية

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اِلٰهِى كَيْفَ أَخِيبُ وَأَنْتَ أَمَلِى أَمْ كَيْفَ أُهَانُ وَعَلَيْكَ مُتَّكَلِى

My God, how could I be disappointed when You are my hope? Or how could I be humiliated when upon You is my reliance?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

لما تعلق بالله تعالى وتوكل عليه استبعد أن يخيب أمله أو يناله هوان يؤده تحمله

Since he had attached himself (*taʿalluq*) to God Most High and placed his trust (*tawakkul*) in Him, he considered it unlikely that his hope would be disappointed, or that some humiliation (*hawān*) would befall him that would be too heavy for him to bear

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 236 (printed p. 232) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 236 (printed p. 232)

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.