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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 13 of 99 · The complaint

فَقَدْ جَلَّ مُصَابِي وَعَظُمَ اكْتِئَابِي وَانْصَرَمَ شَبَابِي وَتَكَدَّرَ عَلَيَّ صَفْوُ شَرَابِي

My affliction is great, my gloom heavy, my youth cut short, and the clearness of my drink clouded for me.

Fa-qad jalla muṣābī wa-ʿaẓuma ktiʾābī wa-nṣarama shabābī wa-takaddara ʿalayya ṣafwu sharābī

Latin reading

  • Printed unvowelled

    فقد جل مصابي وعظم اكتئابي وانصرم شبابي وتكدر علي صفو شرابي

    The base text (see This edition)

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    Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 80 (pdf 43).

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