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The Hamziyya: the opening

الهمزية

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Clause 1 of 11 · No prophet reaches your height

كَيْفَ تَرْقَى رُقِيَّكَ الْأَنْبِيَاءُ يَا سَمَاءُ مَا طَاوَلَتْهَا سَمَاءُ

How could the prophets climb as high as you climbed? O sky that no sky has ever matched in height!

Kayfa tarqā ruqiyyaka l-anbiyāʾu / yā samāʾu mā ṭāwalathā samāʾu

Latin reading

Words

Roots and lemmas:Automatic analysis

Roots and lemmas from CAMeL Tools and, for Qurʾān lines, the Quranic Arabic Corpus, with corrections checked against opened sources; most words await a reader's review.

  1. كَيْفَ
  2. تَرْقَىlemma رَقِيroot ر ق ي
  3. رُقِيَّكَlemma رُقِيّroot ر ق ي
  4. الْأَنْبِيَاءُlemma نَبِيّroot ن ب أ
  5. يَاlemma يا
  6. سَمَاءُlemma سَماءroot س م و
  7. مَاlemma ما
  8. طَاوَلَتْهَاlemma طاوَلroot ط و ل
  9. سَمَاءُlemma سَماءroot س م و

Roots in this clause

4 roots, in order of first appearance. Each root page gathers its words across the library.

Notes

  • Printed unvowelled

    كيف ترقى رقيك الانبياء · يا سماء ما طاولتها سماء

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Ḥāshiyat al-Jamal ʿalā al-Hamziyya, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Maymaniyya, 1306/1888, p. 3 (pdf 8).

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  • Reading

    The vowelled Maḥmūdiyya print reads «يَا سَمَاءُ» with ḍamma (a vocative of a definite addressee), adopted here. It makes the first foot fāʿilātu, a licensed variation in khafīf; «يَا سَمَاءً», with tanwīn, would also scan.

  • Vowelled print

    The vowelled Cairo printing (al-Maktaba al-Maḥmūdiyya al-Tijāriyya, undated), pdf 4, used to check the AI vowels.

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