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النُّورُ جُنْدُ القَلْبِ كَمَا اِنَّ الظُّلْمَةَ جُنْدُ النَّفْسِ فَاِذَا أَرَادَ اللَّهُ أَنْ يَنْصُرَ عَبْدَهُ أَمَدَّهُ بِجُنُودِ الاَنْوَارِ وَقَطَعَ عَنْهُ مَدَدَ الظُّلَمِ وَالاَغْيَارِ

Light is the army of the heart, just as darkness is the army of the ego-self. So when God wills to grant His servant victory, He reinforces him with troops of lights and cuts off from him the reinforcement of darknesses and of the others [al-aghyār: whatever is other than God].

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Ibn ʿAbbād

نور التوحيد واليقين وظلمة الشرك والشك جندان للقلب والنفس والحرب بينهما سجال فاذا أراد الله نصرة عبده أمد قلبه بجنوده وقطع عن نفسه مدد جنودها واذا أراد خذلان عبده فعلى العكس

The light of affirming God's oneness (*tawḥīd*) and of certainty (*yaqīn*), and the darkness of associating others with God (*shirk*) and of doubt (*shakk*), are two armies, belonging to the heart and the self respectively, and the war between them goes by turns, now one side prevailing, now the other. So when God wishes to give His servant victory, He reinforces his heart with its armies and cuts off from his self the reinforcement of its armies; and when He wishes to abandon His servant (*khidhlān*), it is the reverse.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 53–54 (printed p. 49) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 53–54 (printed p. 49)

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