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اِذَا رَأَيْتَ عَبْدًا أَقَامَهُ اللَّهُ تَعَالَى بِوُجُودِ الْاَوْرَادِ وَأَدَامَهُ عَلَيْهَا مَعَ طُولِ الْاِمْدَادِ فَلَا تَسْتَحْقِرَنَّ مَا مَنَحَهُ مَوْلَاهُ لِأَنَّكَ لَمْ تَرَ عَلَيْهِ سِيمَا الْعَارِفِينَ وَلَا بَهْجَةَ الْمُحِبِّينَ فَلَوْلَا وَارِدٌ مَا كَانَ وِرْدٌ

If you see a servant whom God, exalted is He, has set up in the practice of the litanies and has kept persevering in them, with long-continued replenishment, do not belittle what his Master has granted him on the grounds that you do not see upon him the mark of the knowers or the radiance of the lovers. Were it not for an inrush (wārid), there would be no litany (wird).

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عباد الله المخصوصون ينقسمون الى قسمين مقربين وأبرار فالمقربون هم الذين أخذوا عن حظوظهم وارادتهم واستعملوا فى القيام بحقوق ربهم عبودية له وطلبا لمرضاته وهؤلاء هم العارفون والمحبون

God's elect servants fall into two groups: those brought near (*muqarrabūn*) and the righteous (*abrār*). Those brought near are the ones who have been taken away from their own portions (*ḥuẓūẓ*) and their own will (*irāda*), and put to work fulfilling the rights of their Lord, in servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*) to Him and in pursuit of His good pleasure. These are the gnostics and the lovers.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 69–70 (printed p. 65) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 69–70 (printed p. 65)

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