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تَنَوَّعَتْ أَجْنَاسُ الاَعْمَالِ لِتَنَوُّعِ وَارِدَاتِ الاَحْوَالِ

The kinds of works are diverse because the inrushes of the states are diverse.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

واردات الاحوال هى مايرد على القلوب من المعارف الربانية والاسرار الروحانية وهى التى توجب لها أحوالا حميدة فمنها وارد يوجب هيبة ومنها وارد يوجب أنسا ومنها وارد يوجب قبضا ومنها وارد يوجب بسطا الى غير ذلك من مختلفات الاحوال

The incoming influxes of the states are whatever comes upon hearts in the way of lordly gnoses (*al-maʿārif al-rabbāniyya*) and spiritual secrets (*al-asrār al-rūḥāniyya*); it is these that bring about praiseworthy states (*aḥwāl*) in them. Among them is an influx that brings about awe (*hayba*), and among them an influx that brings about intimacy (*uns*), and among them an influx that brings about contraction (*qabḍ*), and among them an influx that brings about expansion (*basṭ*), and so on through the other varieties of states

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 16 (printed p. 12) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 16 (printed p. 12)

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.