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شَتَّانَ بَيْنَ مَنْ يُسْتَدَلُّ بِهِ أَوْ يُسْتَدَلُّ عَلَيْهِ الْمُسْتَدِلُّ بِهِ عَرَفَ الْحَقَّ لِاَهْلِهِ فَاَثْبَتَ الْأَمْرَ مِنْ وُجُودِ أَصْلِهِ وَالِاسْتِدْلَالُ عَلَيْهِ مِنْ عَدَمِ الْوُصُولِ اِلَيْهِ وَاِلَّا فَمَتَى غَابَ حَتَّى يُسْتَدَلَّ عَلَيْهِ وَمَتَى بَعُدَ حَتَّى تَكُونَ الْآثَارُ هِىَ الَّتِى تُوصِلُ اِلَيْهِ

How far apart are the one who takes Him as the proof and the one who seeks proofs for Him! The one who takes Him as the proof has recognized that what is due belongs to its rightful Owner. So he establishes everything from the existence of its Source. Seeking proofs for Him, by contrast, comes from not having arrived at Him. Otherwise, when was He ever absent, that proof should be sought for Him? And when was He ever far, that it should be the traces that lead to Him?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

بنو آدم فى أول نشأتهم ومبدأ خلقتهم وخروجهم من بطون أمهاتهم موسومون بالجهل وعدم العلم قال الله تعالى والله أخرجكم من بطون أمهاتكم لاتعلمون شيأ

The children of Adam, at the start of their coming-to-be, at the beginning of their creation, and at their emergence from their mothers' wombs, are marked by ignorance and the absence of knowledge. God Most High has said: "And God brought you forth from your mothers' wombs knowing nothing" (Q 16:78).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 35–33 (printed p. 29) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 35–33 (printed p. 29)

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