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لَا تَرْحَلْ مِنْ كَوْنٍ اِلَى كَوْنٍ فَتَكُونَ كَحِمَارِ الرَّحَا يَسِيرُ وَالْمَكَانُ الَّذِى ارْتَحَلَ اِلَيْهِ هُوَ الَّذِى ارْتَحَلَ مِنْهُ وَلَكِنِ ارْحَلْ مِنَ الْأَكْوَانِ اِلَى الْمُكَوِّنِ وَأَنَّ اِلَى رَبِّكَ الْمُنْتَهَى وَانْظُرْ اِلَى قَوْلِهِ صَلَّى اللَّهُ عَلَيْهِ وَسَلَّمَ فَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ اِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ فَهِجْرَتُهُ اِلَى اللَّهِ وَرَسُولِهِ وَمَنْ كَانَتْ هِجْرَتُهُ اِلَى دُنْيَا يُصِيبُهَا أَوِ امْرَأَةٍ يَتَزَوَّجُهَا فَهِجْرَتُهُ اِلَى مَا هَاجَرَ اِلَيْهِ فَافْهَمْ قَوْلَهُ عَلَيْهِ الصَّلَاةُ وَالسَّلَامُ وَتَأَمَّلْ هَذَا الْاَمْرَ اِنْ كُنْتَ ذَا فَهْمٍ

Do not travel from one created thing to another created thing, for then you will be like the donkey at the millstone: it keeps moving, yet the place it travels to is the very place it set out from. Rather, travel from the created things to the Maker of things: "and that to your Lord is the final end" (Q 53:42). And consider his saying (God bless him and grant him peace): "So whoever's emigration is to God and His Messenger, his emigration is to God and His Messenger; and whoever's emigration is to some worldly gain he would attain, or to a woman he would marry, his emigration is to that for which he emigrated." So understand his saying (upon him be blessing and peace), and reflect on this matter, if you are one possessed of understanding.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العمل على طلب الجزاء والدرجات أو نيل الرتب العلية والمقامات نقصان فى الحال وشوب فى اخلاص الاعمال وهو معنى الرحيل من كون الى كون وسبب ذلك بقاء اعتبار النفس فى أن تحصل لها رتبة أو تنال بسعيها موهبة … فى هذا الحديث النبوى تنبيه على المعنى الذى ذكره وموضع الاعتبار والتأمل هو والله أعلم قوله فى القسم الثانى فهجرته الى ما هاجر اليه أى ولا نصيب له من الوصول والقرب الذى حظى به من هاجر الى الله ورسوله

Working in pursuit of recompense and degrees, or of attaining lofty ranks and stations (*maqāmāt*), is a deficiency in one's spiritual state (*ḥāl*) and an adulteration (*shawb*) of the sincerity (*ikhlāṣ*) of one's works. This is what is meant by journeying from one created thing (*kawn*) to another. The cause of it is that regard for the self (*iʿtibār al-nafs*) still remains: the self wants some rank to come to it, or wants to obtain some divine gift (*mawhiba*) through its own striving. … In this prophetic hadith there is a pointer to the meaning he has mentioned. The place that calls for consideration and reflection is, and God knows best, his words in the second case: "his emigration is to that for which he emigrated." That is, he has no share in the arrival (*wuṣūl*) and nearness (*qurb*) granted to the one who emigrated to God and His Messenger.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 44–45 (printed p. 40) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 44–45 (printed p. 40)

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