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الْحُزْنُ عَلَى فِقْدَانِ الطَّاعَةِ مَعَ عَدَمِ النُّهُوضِ الَيْهَا مِنْ عَلَامَاتِ الِاغْتِرَارِ

Grieving over the loss of obedience while making no move to rise up to it is among the signs of self-delusion.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

هذا هو الحزن الكاذب الذى يكون معه البكاء الكاذب كما قالوا كم من عين جارية وقلب قاس وهو من مكر الله تعالى الخفى حيث منعه ما ينفعه وأعطاه ما يغتر به من الحزن والبكاء

This is false grief, the kind accompanied by false weeping, as they have said: “How many an eye flows with tears while the heart is hard!” It is part of the hidden ruse (*makr khafī*) of God, exalted is He, in that He has withheld from him what would benefit him and given him that by which he is deluded, namely grief and weeping

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 74 (printed p. 70) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 74 (printed p. 70)

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