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مَعْصِيَةٌ أَوْرَثَتْ ذُلًّا وَافْتِقَارًا خَيْرٌ مِنْ طَاعَةٍ أَوْرَثَتْ عِزًّا وَاسْتِكْبَارًا

A sin that leaves behind it abasement and a sense of need is better than an act of obedience that leaves behind it a feeling of might and arrogance.

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Ibn ʿAbbād

الذل والافتقار من صفات العبودية والعز والاستكبار مناقضان لها لانهما من صفات الربوبية ولا خير فى الطاعة اذا لزم عنها شئ مما يناقض صفات العبودية لانها تحبطها وتبطلها

Abasement and neediness are among the attributes of servanthood (*ʿubūdiyya*), while might and haughtiness are contrary to it, for these two are among the attributes of lordship (*rubūbiyya*). There is no good in an act of obedience when something contrary to the attributes of servanthood follows necessarily from it, because that thing renders it void (*iḥbāṭ*) and nullifies it

The opening of his commentary only; the whole of it runs over pdf 84–86 (printed p. 80) of the print: follow the link to the page images.

Ibn ʿAbbād · pdf 84–86 (printed p. 80)

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