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—gratitude for it and contentment with it—so that the calamity is then, for him, a blessing. His heart and tongue never cease their constant ¹ refrain ²: “Lord, help me to remember You ³, to thank You ⁴, and to worship You in the finest manner ⁵.” This feeling waxes and wanes according to the [strength] ⁶ of the servant’s love for Allah. Indeed, each of us can sense something of this even in ordinary life, as the poet ⁷ said to a beloved who had [touched him with something he disliked] ⁸:
Though it pained me that you reached me with a hurt,
I was delighted simply to have crossed your mind. ⁹
The second category ¹⁰ concerns what befalls a person through other people’s actions against his property, his honour, or his very self ¹¹.
(1) That is, his constant habit and typical conduct; see Ibn Manzur, Lisan al-Arab, s.v. “hajr,” 5/254.
(2) In manuscript B the phrase reads: “and his tongue was likewise engaged” (Ms. Q, fol. 2b); the word “shukraka” (Your thanks) is omitted in that copy.
(5) Reference to the hadith in which Muʿadh, may Allah be pleased with him, reports that the Messenger of Allah, peace and blessings be upon him, took his hand and said: “Muʿadh, by Allah, I love you. I advise you, Muʿadh, never to leave after every prayer the supplication: ‘Allahumma aʿinni ʿala dhikrika wa shukrika wa husni ʿibadatik’ (O Allah, help me to remember You, to thank You, and to worship You well).” Related by Abu Dawud, Sunan, 2/181, Book of Witr, chapter “Seeking forgiveness,” no. 1522; al-Nasaʾi, Sunan, 3/53, Book of Forgetfulness, chapter “Another kind of supplication”; and Ahmad b. Hanbal, Musnad, 5/245, 247.
(6) Omitted in manuscript A.
(7) Manuscript B reads: “some poets.”
(8) Omitted in manuscript A.
(9) See Diwan Ibn al-Dumayna, p. 17, ed. Ahmad Ratib al-Naffakh, Dar al-ʿUruba, 1st ed., 1379 AH/1959 CE.
(10) Manuscript A has “the third,” manuscript B “the fourth”; the reading adopted here is the correct one.
(11) Manuscript B reads: “idha” (if/when).
لها والرضا بها، فانقلبت حينئذ في حقه نعمة، فلا يزال هجيرى١ قلبه ولسانه٢ رب أعني على ذكرك٣ وشكرك٤ وحسن عبادتك٥، وهذا يقوى ويضعف بحسب [قوة] ٦ محبة العبد لله وضعفها، بل هذا يجده أحدنا في الشاهد كما قال الشاعر٧ يخاطب محبوبا له [ناله ببعض ما يكره] ٨:
لئن ساءني أن نِلتِنِي بمساءة
لقد سرني أني خطرت ببالِكِ٩
النوع الثاني١٠: أن١١ يحصل له بفعل الناس في ماله أو عرضه أو نفسه.
١ أي دأبه وشأنه. انظر: لسان العرب مادة (هجر) (٥/٢٥٤) .
٢ في (ب) : "ولسانه فيها".
(ق ٢/ب) .
(شكرك) ساقطة من (ب) .
٥ يشير إلى حديث معاذ ﵁ أن رسول الله ﷺ أخذ بيده وقال: "يا معاذ والله إني لأحبك، فقال: أوصيك يا معاذ لا تدعن في دبر كل صلاة تقول: اللهم اعني على ذكرك وشكرك وحسن عبادتك"، أخرجه أبو داود في سننه (٢/١٨١) كتاب الوتر باب في الاستغفار برقم (١٥٢٢) .
والنسائي في سننه (٣/٥٣) كتاب السهو باب نوع آخر من الدعاء.
والإمام أحمد في المسند (٥/٢٤٥،٢٤٧) .
٦ ساقطة من (أ) .
٧ في (ب) : (بعض الشعراء) .
٨ ساقطة من (أ) .
٩ انظر ديوان ابن الدمينة (ص١٧) تحقيق أحمد راتب النفاخ، مكتبة دار العروبة ط الأولى عام ١٣٧٩.
١٠ في (أ) : (الثالث) ، وفي (ب) : (الرابع) والصواب ما أثبته.
١١ في (ب) : (إذا) .