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الْعَجَبُ كُلُّ الْعَجَبِ مِمَّنْ يَهْرُبُ مِمَّنْ لَا انْفِكَاكَ لَهُ عَنْهُ وَيَطْلُبُ مَا لَا بَقَاءَ لَهُ مَعَهُ فَإِنَّهَا لَا تَعْمَى الْابْصَارُ الْآيَةَ

Wonder of all wonders is the one who flees from Him from whom there is no separation, and seeks what will not last with him! "For truly it is not the eyes that are blind, but blind are the hearts within the breasts" (Qurʾān 22:46).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هرب العبد من مولاه باقباله على شهواته ومتابعته هواه وذلك نتيجة عمى قلبه وجهله بربه لانه استبدل الذى هو أدنى بالذى هو خير وآثر الفانى الذى لا بقاء له على الباقى الذى لا انفكاك له عنه

The commentary: The servant's flight from his Master consists in his turning toward (*iqbāl*) his appetites (*shahawāt*) and following his caprice (*hawā*). That is the result of the blindness of his heart (*ʿamā al-qalb*) and his ignorance of his Lord, for he has 'exchanged what is lower for what is better' [Q 2:61], and preferred the perishing (*al-fānī*), which has no permanence, over the Abiding (*al-bāqī*), from whom he has no separation.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 43–44 (printed p. 39) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 43–44 (printed p. 39)

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