Mashrabaمشربة

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55 · 10 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

أَوْرَدَ عَلَيْكَ الْوَارِدَ لِيُخْرِجَكَ مِنْ سِجْنِ وُجُودِكَ الَى فَضَاءِ شُهُودِكَ

He sent the inrush upon you in order to bring you out of the prison of your own existence into the open expanse of your witnessing.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

سجن وجوده هو شهوده لنفسه ومراعاته لحظه وفضاء شهوده أن يغيب عن ذلك بشهوده عظمة الله تعالى وجلاله ورؤية قيام حركاته وسكناته

The prison of one's existence is one's witnessing of oneself and one's attending to one's own share (*ḥaẓẓ*). The open expanse of one's witnessing is that one become absent (*ghayba*) from all that through witnessing the immensity of God Most High and His majesty, and through seeing that one's movements and stillnesses are upheld

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 53 (printed p. 49) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 53 (printed p. 49)

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.