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اِنْ أَرَدْتَ أَنْ يَكُونَ لَكَ عِزٌّ لَا يَفْنَى فَلَا تَسْتَعِزَّنَّ بِعِزٍّ يَفْنَى

If you want to have a might that does not pass away, then do not seek might in a might that passes away.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

العز الذى لا يفنى هو الغنى عن الاسباب كلها بوجود مسببها لانه باق لا يفنى فالتعلق به عز لا يفنى والعز الذى يفنى هو الغنى بالاسباب مع الغيبة عن مسببها لانها فانية فالتعلق بها عز فان لا يبقى

The glory that does not perish is independence (*ghinā*) from all secondary causes (*asbāb*) through finding (*wujūd*) their Causer (*musabbib*); for He is enduring and does not perish, so attachment (*taʿalluq*) to Him is a glory that does not perish. And the glory that perishes is being made independent by the secondary causes while absent (*ghayba*) from their Causer; for they are perishing, so attachment to them is a perishing glory that does not endure

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 79–80 (printed p. 75) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 79–80 (printed p. 75)

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.