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لَا يَعْظُمِ الذَّنْبُ عِنْدَكَ عَظَمَةً تَصُدُّكَ عَنْ حُسْنِ الظَّنِّ بِاللَّهِ تَعَالَى فَانَّ مَنْ عَرَفَ رَبَّهُ اسْتَصْغَرَ فِى جَنْبِ كَرَمِهِ ذَنْبَهُ

Let no sin loom so large in your eyes that it bars you from thinking well of God, exalted is He; for whoever knows his Lord deems his sin small beside His generosity.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عظمة الذنب عند مرتكبه على وجهين أحدهما أن يعظم عنده عظمة تحمله على التوبة منه والاقلاع عنه وصدق العزم على أن لا يعود الى مثله فهذه عظمة محمودة وهى من علامات ايمان العبد

The gravity of a sin, in the eyes of the one who commits it, takes one of two forms. The first is that it looms so large in his eyes that it moves him to repent (*tawba*) of it, to desist (*iqlāʿ*) from it, and to resolve sincerely (*ṣidq al-ʿazm*) never to return to anything like it. Such gravity is praiseworthy, and it is among the signs of the servant's (*ʿabd*) faith (*īmān*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 51–52 (printed p. 47) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 51–52 (printed p. 47)

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