Abū ʿAlī al-Ḥusayn ibn Sīnā (Avicenna) · al-Qaṣīda al-ʿayniyya (Qaṣīdat al-nafs)
The Ode on the Soul
القصيدة العينية في النفس
About the vowels: added by AI; uncertain words are underlined
The source of this text, a printed edition or a manuscript, has few or no vowel marks, as is usual for such texts. The vowels shown were added by AI and checked against an independent grammatical analyser; the few words where the two disagree are underlined as uncertain. Choose “Unvowelled” under Aa to read the letters alone.
- ¶ 1
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Down to you from the loftiest station descended an ash-grey dove, possessed of proud dignity and reserve, holding herself beyond reach.
AI - ¶ 2
الكَامِلal-kāmil––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Veiled from the eye of every knower, yet she is the one who has unveiled herself and wears no face-veil.
AI - ¶ 3
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
She came to you against her will, and yet perhaps she will loathe to part from you, stricken with grief.
AI - ¶ 4
Metre: not scanned
As vowelled here, this verse does not fit al-kāmil, the metre of the poem; it is left unscanned rather than forced. Fits al-kāmil if the verb is read anisat (أَنِسَتْ, 'grew at ease'); the vowelling here has ānasat (آنَسَتْ), which breaks the metre. A likely slip in the vowelling.
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
She recoiled in disdain and found no comfort there; yet once she had entered into union, she grew accustomed to dwelling beside the desolate ruin.
AI - ¶ 5
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And I think she has forgotten the covenants she made in the sanctuary, and the dwelling-places she was never content to leave.
AI - ¶ 6
الكَامِلal-kāmil––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Until, when she became joined, by the hāʾ of her descent (hubūṭ), to the mīm of her centre (markaz) in the sandy lowland (dhāt al-ajraʿ),
AI - ¶ 7
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
The thāʾ of *al-thaqīl* (the heavy) fastened upon her, and so she came to dwell among the waymarks and the low-bowed ruined encampments.
AI - ¶ 8
الكَامِلal-kāmil––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
She weeps whenever she remembers dwellings in the sanctuary, with tears that stream and have not yet ceased.
AI - ¶ 9
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And she remains, cooing, over the traces of the encampments that have been effaced by the ceaseless return of the four winds.
AI - ¶ 10
الكَامِلal-kāmil––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
for the dense snare held her back, and a cage barred her from the spacious zenith and its open expanses.
AI - ¶ 11
الكَامِلal-kāmil––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Until, when the journey to the sanctuary drew near, and the departure for the widest open expanse approached,
AI - ¶ 12
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
She cooed, and the veil had been lifted, so that she beheld what is not perceived by eyes that slumber.
AI - ¶ 13
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And she set out, parting from everything left behind her — the body, bound in alliance with the dust, which none escorts upon its way.
AI - ¶ 14
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And she came to be seen singing upon the summit of a towering height, for knowledge raises up everyone who had not been raised.
AI - ¶ 15
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
For what purpose, then, was she cast down from a towering, lofty height to the bottom of the lowest abyss?
AI - ¶ 16
الكَامِلal-kāmil––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
If God sent her down for some wise purpose, it is one folded away, hidden even from the sharp-witted, discerning, and admirably keen of mind.
AI - ¶ 17
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
So her descent, if it was an inescapable necessity, was so that she might come to hear what she had not heard.
AI - ¶ 18
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And she returns knowing every hidden thing in the worlds, yet her rent has not been mended.
AI - ¶ 19
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And she it is whose road Time cut short, until she set in a place other than where she had risen.
AI - ¶ 20
الكَامِلal-kāmil∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ∪∪–∪–مُتَفَاعِلُنْ––∪–مُسْتَفْعِلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-kāmil, “the complete”
وهو على ستة أجزاء متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن متفاعلن
It has six feet: mutafāʿilun, six times. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 596–597 (p. 86) ↗
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Ibn Abī Uṣaybiʿa, ʿUyūn al-anbāʾ (Cairo 1299/1882), print unvowelled + AI.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And it is as though she were a flash of lightning that gleamed toward the sanctuary, then folded itself away, as though it had never shone.
AI
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