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لَا تَرْفَعَنَّ الَى غَيْرِهِ حَاجَةً هُوَ مُورِدُهَا عَلَيْكَ فَكَيْفَ يَرْفَعُ غَيْرُهُ مَا كَانَ هُوَ لَهُ وَاضِعًا مَنْ لَا يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَرْفَعَ حَاجَةً عَنْ نَفْسِهِ فَكَيْفَ يَسْتَطِيعُ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَهَا عَنْ غَيْرِهِ رَافِعًا

Never raise to anyone other than Him a need that He Himself has brought upon you. How could another lift what He has set down? And he who cannot lift a need from himself, how could he lift it from another?

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اذا أورد الله تعالى عليك حاجة أو أنزل بك نازلة فاعلم أنه لا رافع لها سواه اذ يستحيل أن يرفع غيره ما كان هو له واضعا لثبوت توحيده فى أن لا فاعل سواه

When God (exalted is He) brings a need upon you or sends an affliction (*nāzila*) down upon you, know that none can lift it but Him. It is impossible for another to lift what He Himself has set down, because His oneness (*tawḥīd*) is firmly established, in that there is no agent (*fāʿil*) besides Him.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 41–42 (printed p. 37) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 41–42 (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.