Mashrabaمشربة

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الحكم العطائية

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38 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

كَانَ اللَّهُ وَلَا شَئَ مَعَهُ وَهُوَ الآنَ عَلَى مَا عَلَيْهِ كَانَ

God was, and there was nothing with Him; and He is now as He was.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الازمنة هاهنا أمور وهمية لا وجود لها على التحقيق والمقصود أن الله تعالى لا شئ معه لثبوت أحديته

Times here are matters of estimation (*umūr wahmiyya*) that have no existence in verified reality (*ʿalā al-taḥqīq*). What is meant is that God (exalted is He) has nothing with Him, since His Oneness (*aḥadiyya*) is firmly established

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 40–41 (printed p. 36) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 40–41 (printed p. 36)

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.