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مَنْ عَبَدَهُ لِشَئٍ يَرْجُوهُ مِنْهُ أَوْ لِيَدْفَعَ بِطَاعَتِهِ وُرُودَ الْعُقُوبَةِ عَنْهُ فَمَا قَامَ بِحَقِّ أَوْصَافِهِ

Whoever worships Him for the sake of something he hopes for from Him, or in order to ward off from himself, by his obedience, the onset of punishment, has not fulfilled what is due to His attributes.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

عمل العاملين لاجل حصول الجزاء أو فرارا من عقوبة المولى مدخول معلول ليس من شأن الحاذقين المحققين لان قيام العبد بحق أوصاف مولاه يقتضى أن لا يعمل لاجل حظه من جلب ثواب أو دفع عقاب لانه عبد يستحق عليه مولاه كل شئ ولا يستحق هو عليه شيأ

The work of those who work for the sake of obtaining the recompense, or in flight from the punishment of the Master, is unsound and defective (*madkhūl maʿlūl*). It is not the way of the adepts who have realized the truth (*al-ḥādhiqūn al-muḥaqqiqūn*). For the servant's fulfilling what is due to the attributes of his Master requires that he not work for the sake of his own share (*ḥaẓẓ*), whether by drawing in reward or by fending off punishment. He is a servant: his Master has a rightful claim upon him to everything, while he has no rightful claim upon Him to anything.

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 82–83 (printed p. 78) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 82–83 (printed p. 78)

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