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مِنْ جَهْلِ الْمُرِيدِ أَنْ يُسِىءَ الْاَدَبَ فَتُؤَخَّرَ الْعُقُوبَةُ عَنْهُ فَيَقُولَ لَوْ كَانَ هَذَا سُوءَ أَدَبٍ لَقَطَعَ الْاِمْدَادَ وَأَوْجَبَ الْاِبْعَادَ فَقَدْ يُقْطَعُ الْمَدَدُ عَنْهُ مِنْ حَيْثُ لَا يَشْعُرُ وَلَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ اِلَّا مَنْعُ الْمَزِيدِ وَقَدْ يُقَامُ مَقَامَ الْبُعْدِ وَهُوَ لَا يَدْرِى وَلَوْ لَمْ يَكُنْ اِلَّا أَنْ يُخَلِّيَكَ وَمَا تُرِيدُ

It belongs to the aspirant's ignorance that he should be discourteous, and when the punishment is held back from him, he says: "Had this been discourtesy, He would have cut off His supply and decreed that I be sent far away." Yet the supply may be cut off from him without his perceiving it, even if it were nothing more than the withholding of increase; and he may be set in the place of distance without knowing it, even if it were nothing more than His leaving you to what you want.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا نوع من الاستدراج الذى تقدم ذكره وسوء أدب المريد موجب لعقوبته ولكن العقوبات مختلفة فمنها معجلة ومنها مؤجلة ومنها جلية ومنها خفية

This is one kind of the gradual luring-on (*istidrāj*) mentioned earlier. The novice's poor courtesy makes him liable to punishment, but punishments differ: some are hastened and some deferred, some are manifest and some hidden.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 61–69 (printed p. 57) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 61–69 (printed p. 57)

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