Mashrabaمشربة

The commentators side by side

One passage at a time. Each column is a commentator; each row gathers the comments on the same words, so readings and emphases can be compared.

الحكم العطائية

←→Read ¶81 in the text

81 · 19 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

بَسَطَكَ كَىْ لَا يُبْقِيَكَ مَعَ الْقَبْضِ وَقَبَضَكَ كَىْ لَا يَتْرُكَكَ مَعَ الْبَسْطِ وَأَخْرَجَكَ عَنْهُمَا كَىْ لَا تَكُونَ لِشَئٍ دُونَهُ

He expanded you so as not to keep you in contraction; He contracted you so as not to leave you in expansion; and He brought you out of them both so that you would belong to nothing apart from Him.

On the whole passage · 1 of 1

Ibn ʿAbbād

القبض والبسط من الحالات التى يتلون بها العارفون وهما بمنزلة الخوف والرجاء للمريدين المبتدئين وسببهما الواردات التى ترد على باطن العبد وقوتهما وضعفهما بحسب قوة الواردات وضعفها والمقصود ههنا أنهما وصفان ناقصان بالنسبة الى ما فوقهما

Contraction (*qabḍ*) and expansion (*basṭ*) are among the states (*ḥālāt*) through which the gnostics (*ʿārifūn*) undergo variation (*talawwun*). For beginning aspirants (*murīdūn mubtadiʾūn*), they correspond to fear (*khawf*) and hope (*rajāʾ*). Their cause is the inrushes (*wāridāt*) that come upon the inner being (*bāṭin*) of the servant, and their strength or weakness accords with the strength or weakness of those inrushes. What is meant here is that they are two deficient qualities relative to what lies above them

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 76–77 (printed p. 72) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 76–77 (printed p. 72)

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.