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اَلْعَارِفُونَ اِذَا بُسِطُوا أَخْوَفُ مِنْهُمْ اِذَا قُبِضُوا وَلَا يَقِفُ عَلَى حُدُودِ الْأَدَبِ فِى الْبَسْطِ اِلَّا قَلِيلٌ

The knowers, when they are expanded, are more fearful than when they are contracted; and none but a few keep within the bounds of courtesy in expansion.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

انما اشتد خوف العارفين فى البسط ما لم يشتد فى القبض من قبل ملاءمته لهوى أنفسهم بخلاف القبض كما سيقوله المؤلف الآن فيخافون حينئذ من رجوعهم اليه وذوقهم لطعم نفوسهم وفى ذلك الطرد والبعد

The fear of the gnostics grows intense in expansion as it does not in contraction only because expansion accords with the desire (*hawā*) of their selves, unlike contraction, as the author is about to say. So at such a time they fear that they will revert to that desire and taste the savor of their own selves, and in that lies banishment (*ṭard*) and remoteness (*buʿd*).

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 77 (printed p. 73) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 77 (printed p. 73)

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