Mashrabaمشربة

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44 · 11 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

لَا تَصْحَبْ مَنْ لَا يُنْهِضُكَ حَالُهُ وَلَا يَدُلُّكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ مَقَالُهُ

Do not keep the company of one whose state does not rouse you, and whose speech does not guide you to God.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

تكلم ههنا فى الصحبة وهى أصل كبير من أصول القوم وفيها منافع وفوائد ولذلك استمر عليها شأنهم قديما وحديثا

Here he speaks of companionship (*ṣuḥba*), which is one of the great foundations among the principles of the Folk (*al-qawm*). It holds benefits and advantages, and for this reason their practice has steadily adhered to it, in former times and recent alike.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 45–47 (printed p. 41) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 45–47 (printed p. 41)

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.