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مَنْ رَأَيْتَهُ مُجِيبًا عَنْ كُلِّ مَا سُئِلَ وَمُعَبِّرًا عَنْ كُلِّ مَا شَهِدَ وَذَاكِرًا كُلَّ مَا عَلِمَ فَاسْتَدِلَّ بِذَلِكَ عَلَى وُجُودِ جَهْلِهِ

Whomever you see answering everything he is asked, giving expression to everything he witnesses, and mentioning everything he knows, take that as evidence of the presence of his ignorance.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الاجابة عن كل سؤال والتعبير بكل مشهود والذكر لكل معلوم أمارات على وجود جهل من اتصف بها كما قال أما الاجابة عن كل سؤال فلاقتضائها منه الاحاطة بجميع المعلومات وذلك محال فى حقه

Answering every question, giving expression to everything witnessed (*mashhūd*), and mentioning everything known are signs (*amārāt*) of the presence of ignorance (*jahl*) in whoever is characterized by them, as he said. As for answering every question, this is because it would require of him an all-encompassing comprehension (*iḥāṭa*) of every object of knowledge (*maʿlūmāt*), and that is impossible in his case

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 70–71 (printed p. 66) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 70–71 (printed p. 66)

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