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لَا تَتَعَدَّنِيَّهُ هِمَّتِكَ اِلَى غَيْرِهِ فَالْكَرِيمُ لَا تَتَخَطَّاهُ الْآمَالُ

Let not the intent of your aspiration pass beyond Him to anything other than Him, for hopes do not go past the Generous One.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الهمة العلية تأنف من رفع حوائجها الى غير كريم ولا كريم على الحقيقة سوى الله تعالى

Lofty aspiration disdains to raise its needs to any but one who is generous, and there is none generous in truth save God Most High.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 41 (printed p. 37) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 41 (printed p. 37)

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.