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أَنْتَ حُرٌّ مِمَّا أَنْتَ عَنْهُ آيِسٌ وَعَبْدٌ لِمَا أَنْتَ لَهُ طَامِعٌ

You are free of whatever you have given up hope of, and a slave to whatever you covet.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الطمع فى الشئ دليل على الحب له وفرط الاحتياج الى نيله وذلك عبودية له كما أن اليأس من الشئ دليل على فراغ القلب منه وغناه عنه وذلك حرية منه فالطامع عبد واليائس حر

Covetousness (*ṭamaʿ*) for a thing is a sign of love (*ḥubb*) for it and of an excessive need to obtain it, and that is servitude (*ʿubūdiyya*) to it; just as hopelessness (*yaʾs*) regarding a thing is a sign of the heart's being empty of it and of its self-sufficiency (*ghinā*) without it, and that is freedom (*ḥurriyya*) from it. So the one who covets is a slave, and the one who has given up hope is free.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 59–60 (printed p. 55) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 59–60 (printed p. 55)

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