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الحكم العطائية

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62 · 5 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

مَا قَادَكَ شَئٌ مِثْلُ الْوَهْمِ

Nothing has led you on like illusion.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الوهم أمر عدمى وهو ضد الحقيقة الوجودية والنفس الناقصة انقيادها الى الامور الوهمية الباطلة أشد من انقيادها الى الحقائق الثابتة لوجود المناسبة بينهما

Illusion (*wahm*) is a matter of non-being (*amr ʿadamī*), and it is the opposite of existential reality (*al-ḥaqīqa al-wujūdiyya*). The deficient soul (*al-nafs al-nāqiṣa*) is more readily led toward vain, illusory matters than toward firmly established realities, because of the affinity (*munāsaba*) between the two

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 58–59 (printed p. 54) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 58–59 (printed p. 54)

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.