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الحكم العطائية

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لَا يُشَكِّكَنَّكَ فِى الْوَعْدِ عَدَمُ وُقُوعِ الْمَوْعُودِ وَانْ تَعَيَّنَ زَمَنُهُ لِئَلَّا يَكُونَ ذَلِكَ قَدْحًا فِى بَصِيرَتِكَ وَاخْمَادًا لِنُورِ سَرِيرَتِكَ

Let not the failure of the promised thing to come to pass, even though its time had been fixed, make you doubt the promise, lest that be a wound to your inner sight and a quenching of the light of your inmost heart.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الحق سبحانه لا يخلف الميعاد فمن وعده مولاه شيأ وان كان معين الزمن ثم لم يقع ذلك الموعود فلا ينبغى أن يشككه ذلك فى صدق وعد ربه لجواز أن يكون وقوع ذلك الوعد معلقا على أسباب وشروط استأثر الحق تعالى بعلمها دون العبد

The commentary: The Real (*al-Ḥaqq*), glory be to Him, does not fail His appointed promise. So if his Master (*mawlā*) has promised someone something, even something whose time was specified, and then the thing promised does not come to pass, this ought not to make him doubt the truthfulness of his Lord’s promise. For it may be that the fulfilment of that promise was made contingent upon causes (*asbāb*) and conditions (*shurūṭ*) whose knowledge the Real, exalted is He, has reserved for Himself, withholding it from the servant

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 13–14 (printed p. 9) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 13–14 (printed p. 9)

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.