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اِنَّمَا يُؤْلِمُكَ الْمَنْعُ لِعَدَمِ فَهْمِكَ عَنِ اللَّهِ فِيهِ

Withholding pains you only because you do not understand God's purpose in it.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

اذا كان منع الله سبحانه وتعالى وعطاؤه نعمتين عظيمتين كما ذكرناه الآن فينبغى أن يكون فى كلتيهما قرة عين المريد فان تألم بأحدهما وهو المنع وتلذذ بالآخر وهو العطاء فذلك لعدم فهمه وقصور علمه

If God's withholding (*manʿ*), glorified and exalted is He, and His giving (*ʿaṭāʾ*) are two immense blessings (*niʿmatān*), as we have just set out, then both of them ought to be a delight to the eye (*qurrat ʿayn*) of the aspirant (*murīd*). If he is pained by one of them, namely withholding, and takes pleasure in the other, namely giving, that is due to his lack of understanding (*fahm*) and the shortcoming of his knowledge (*ʿilm*)

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 84 (printed p. 80) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 84 (printed p. 80)

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