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الْحَقُّ لَيْسَ بِمَحْجُوبٍ وَاِنَّمَا الْمَحْجُوبُ أَنْتَ عَنِ النَّظَرِ اِلَيْهِ اِذْ لَوْ حَجَبَهُ شَئٌ لَسَتَرَهُ مَا حَجَبَهُ وَلَوْ كَانَ لَهُ سَاتِرٌ لَكَانَ لِوُجُودِهِ حَاصِرٌ وَكُلُّ حَاصِرٍ لِشَئٍ فَهُوَ لَهُ قَاهِرٌ وَهُوَ الْقَاهِرُ فَوْقَ عِبَادِهِ

The Real is not veiled; it is you who are veiled from beholding Him. For were anything to veil Him, that which veiled Him would cover Him; and were there something covering Him, it would enclose His being; and whatever encloses a thing holds it under its overpowering. Yet "He is the Overpowering, above His servants" (Q 6:18).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الحجاب على الحق تعالى محال واستدل المؤلف على ذلك بما ذكره هنا وهو بين لا اشكال فيه والحجاب على العبد واجب من حيث ذاته اذ هو عدم كما تقدم ولا نسبة بين العدم والوجود

A veil (*ḥijāb*) over the Real, exalted is He, is impossible. The author has argued for this with what he sets out here, and it is plain, admitting no difficulty. A veil over the servant, on the other hand, is necessary by virtue of his very essence (*dhāt*), since he is nonexistence (*ʿadam*), as has already been stated, and there is no relation (*nisba*) between nonexistence and existence (*wujūd*)

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Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 34–36 (printed p. 31)

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