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The Hamziyya: the opening

الهمزية

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Clause 3 of 11 · No prophet reaches your height

إِنَّمَا مَثَّلُوا صِفَاتِكَ لِلنَّا سِ كَمَا مَثَّلَ النُّجُومَ الْمَاءُ

They only showed people a likeness of your qualities, as water shows a likeness of the stars.

Innamā maththalū ṣifātika li-n-nā / si ka-mā maththala n-nujūma l-māʾu

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. إِنَّمَاlemma إِنَّما
  2. مَثَّلُواlemma مَثَّلroot م ث ل
  3. صِفَاتِكَlemma صِفَةroot و ص ف
  4. لِلنَّاlemma نَاسroot أ ن س
  5. سِlemma نَاسroot أ ن س
  6. كَمَاlemma كَما
  7. مَثَّلَlemma مَثَّلroot م ث ل
  8. النُّجُومَlemma نَجْمroot ن ج م
  9. الْمَاءُlemma ماءroot م و ه

Roots in this clause

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

Notes

  • Printed unvowelled

    انما مثلوا صفاتك للنا · س كما مثل النجوم الماء

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Ḥāshiyat al-Jamal ʿalā al-Hamziyya, Cairo: al-Maṭbaʿa al-Maymaniyya, 1306/1888, p. 5 (pdf 10).

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  • Vowelled print

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

    Page image on the Internet Archive ↗

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