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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 22 of 99 · When the ways narrow

وَيَقْضِي عُمْرَهُ وَلَمْ يُفْتَحْ لَهُ إِلَى فَسِيحِ تِلْكَ الْحَضَرَاتِ وَمَنَاهِلِ الصَّفْوِ وَالرَّاحَاتِ بَابٌ

He is spending his life, and no door has been opened to him onto the wide spaces of those presences and the springs of clearness and rest.

Wa-yaqḍī ʿumrahu wa-lam yuftaḥ lahu ilā fasīḥi tilka l-ḥaḍarāti wa-manāhili ṣ-ṣafwi wa-r-rāḥāti bāb

Latin reading

  • Printed unvowelled

    ويقضي عمره ولم يفتح له إلى فسيح تلك الحضرات ومناهل الصفو والراحات باب

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

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

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  • Reading

    The verb is read «ويقضي عمره» (he spends his life) from the letters; its vowels are not clear.