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لَا تَتْرُكِ الذِّكْرَ لِعَدَمِ حُضُورِكَ مَعَ اللَّهِ فِيهِ لِاَنَّ غَفْلَتَكَ عَنْ وُجُودِ ذِكْرِهِ أَشَدُّ مِنْ غَفْلَتِكَ فِى وُجُودِ ذِكْرِهِ فَعَسَى أَنْ يَرْفَعَكَ مِنْ ذِكْرٍ مَعَ وُجُودِ غَفْلَةٍ اِلَى ذِكْرٍ مَعَ وُجُودِ يَقَظَةٍ وَمِنْ ذِكْرٍ مَعَ وُجُودِ يَقَظَةٍ اِلَى ذِكْرٍ مَعَ وُجُودِ حُضُورٍ وَمِنْ ذِكْرٍ مَعَ وُجُودِ حُضُورٍ اِلَى ذِكْرٍ مَعَ وُجُودِ غَيْبَةٍ عَمَّا سِوَى الْمَذْكُورِ وَمَا ذَلِكَ عَلَى اللَّهِ بِعَزِيزٍ

Do not abandon remembrance (dhikr) because you are not present with God in it, for your heedlessness in the absence of His remembrance is worse than your heedlessness while His remembrance is present. Perhaps He will raise you from a remembrance in which there is heedlessness to a remembrance in which there is wakefulness, and from a remembrance in which there is wakefulness to a remembrance in which there is presence, and from a remembrance in which there is presence to a remembrance in which there is absence from all that is other than the One remembered. "And that is no hard thing for God."

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الذكر أقرب الطرق الى الله تعالى وهو علم على وجود ولايته كما قيل الذكر منشور الولاية فمن وفق للذكر فقد أعطى المنشور ومن سلب الذكر فقد عزل

Remembrance (*dhikr*) is the nearest of the paths to God Most High, and it is a sign of the existence of His friendship (*walāya*). As has been said: "Remembrance is the patent of appointment (*manshūr*) to sainthood." Whoever is granted the divine enabling (*tawfīq*) to remember has been given the patent, and whoever is stripped of remembrance has been removed from office.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 48–50 (printed p. 44) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 48–50 (printed p. 44)

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