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رُبَّمَا كُنْتَ مُسِيأً فَأَرَاكَ الْاِحْسَانَ مِنْكَ صُحْبَتُكَ اِلَى مَنْ هُوَ أَسْوَأُ حَالًا مِنْكَ

It may be that you are a wrongdoer, and yet your keeping company with one whose state is worse than yours makes you see goodness in yourself.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذه أعظم آفة تدخل على من خالف ما ذكره وصحب من هو دونه فى الحال وهى استحسانه لما هو عليه فيؤديه ذلك الى رضاه عن نفسه ورؤيته لاحسانها وهو أصل كل شر كما تقدم

This is the gravest affliction (*āfa*) that befalls one who goes against what [the author] has just mentioned and keeps company with someone beneath him in spiritual state (*ḥāl*): namely, his approving (*istiḥsān*) of the condition he is in. That leads him to be pleased with his own self (*riḍā ʿan al-nafs*) and to see the good in what it does, and this is the root of every evil, as was stated earlier.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 47 (printed p. 43) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 47 (printed p. 43)

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