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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 21 of 99 · When the ways narrow

رَبِّ عَبْدُكَ قَدْ ضَاقَتْ بِهِ الْأَسْبَابُ وَغُلِّقَتْ دُونَهُ الْأَبْوَابُ وَتَعَذَّرَ عَلَيْهِ سُلُوكُ طَرِيقِ الصَّوَابِ وَدَارَ بِهِ الْهَمُّ وَالْغَمُّ وَالِاكْتِئَابُ

My Lord, Your servant: the means have narrowed on him, the doors are shut before him, the right road is beyond his walking, and worry, grief and gloom have closed round him.

Rabbi ʿabduka qad ḍāqat bihi l-asbābu wa-ghulliqat dūnahu l-abwābu wa-taʿadhdhara ʿalayhi sulūku ṭarīqi ṣ-ṣawābi wa-dāra bihi l-hammu wa-l-ghammu wa-l-iktiʾāb

Latin reading

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    رب عبدك قد ضاقت به الأسباب وغلقت دونه الأبواب وتعذر عليه سلوك طريق الصواب ودار به الهم والغم والاكتئاب

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    Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 81 (pdf 43).

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