Ḥizb al-Shakwā
حزب الشكوى
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Clause 16 of 99 · The complaint
قَدْ عَجَزَتْ قُدْرَتِي وَقَلَّتْ حِيلَتِي وَضَعُفَتْ قُوَّتِي وَتَاهَتْ فِكْرَتِي وَاشْتَكَتْ قَضِيَّتِي وَاتَّسَعَتْ قِصَّتِي وَسَاءَتْ حَالَتِي وَبَعُدَتْ أُمْنِيَّتِي وَعَظُمَتْ حَسْرَتِي وَتَصَاعَدَتْ زَفْرَتِي وَفَضَحَ مَكْنُونَ سِرِّي إِسْبَالُ دَمْعَتِي
my power has failed, my means are few, my strength is weak, my thought has lost its way, my case cries out, my story has grown long, my state is bad, my hope is far, my grief is great, my sighs rise, and my flowing tears have laid bare the secret I kept.
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Qad ʿajazat qudratī wa-qallat ḥīlatī wa-ḍaʿufat quwwatī wa-tāhat fikratī wa-shtakat qaḍiyyatī wa-ttasaʿat qiṣṣatī wa-sāʾat ḥālatī wa-baʿudat umniyyatī wa-ʿaẓumat ḥasratī wa-taṣāʿadat zafratī wa-faḍaḥa maknūna sirrī isbālu damʿatī
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Notes
Printed unvowelled
قد عجزت قدرتي وقلت حيلتي وضعفت قوتي وتاهت فكرتي واشتكت قضيتي واتسعت قصتي وساءت حالتي وبعدت أمنيتي وعظمت حسرتي وتصاعدت زفرتي وفضح مكنون سري إسبال دمعتي
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Page
Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 80 (pdf 43).
Reading
«وتاهت» (has lost its way) is worn; read as in «وتاه فكري» on the next page.
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