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رُبَّمَا فَتَحَ لَكَ بَابَ الطَّاعَةِ وَمَا فَتَحَ لَكَ بَابَ الْقَبُولِ وَرُبَّمَا قَضَى عَلَيْكَ بِالذَّنْبِ فَكَانَ سَبَبًا فِى الْوُصُولِ

It may be that He opens to you the door of obedience, yet does not open to you the door of acceptance; and it may be that He decrees a sin for you, and it becomes a means to arrival.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

ينبغى أن لا ينظر العبد الى صور الاشياء ولينظر الى حقائقها فصور الطاعات لا تقتضى وجود القبول لها لما قد تضمنته من الآفات القادحة فى الاخلاص فيها وذلك مانع من وجود القبول لها ووجود صورة الذنب لا يقتضى الابعاد والطرد

The servant (*ʿabd*) ought not to look at the outward forms (*ṣuwar*) of things; let him look rather at their realities (*ḥaqāʾiq*). For the forms of acts of obedience do not entail that acceptance exists for them, because of the defects (*āfāt*) they may contain that impair the sincerity (*ikhlāṣ*) within them, and that is what prevents acceptance from existing for them. And the existence of the form of a sin does not entail being distanced (*ibʿād*) and driven away (*ṭard*)

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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