Ḥizb al-Shakwā
حزب الشكوى
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Clause 32 of 99 · Far from home
سَائِلٌ بَاسِطٌ يَدَ الْفَاقَةِ الْكُلِّيَّةِ يَسْأَلُ مِنْكَ الْجُودَ وَالْإِحْسَانَ مَسْجُونٌ مُقَيَّدٌ فَعَسَى يُفَكُّ قَيْدُهُ وَيُطْلَقُ مِنْ سِجْنِ حِجَابِهِ إِلَى فَسِيحِ حَضَرَاتِ الشُّهُودِ وَالْعِيَانِ
A beggar stretching out the hand of utter need, asking You for generosity and kindness; a prisoner in chains: perhaps his chains will be loosed and he will be set free from the prison of his veil into the wide presences of witnessing and seeing.
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Sāʾilun bāsiṭun yada l-fāqati l-kulliyyati yasʾalu minka l-jūda wa-l-iḥsāna masjūnun muqayyadun fa-ʿasā yufakku qayduhu wa-yuṭlaqu min sijni ḥijābihi ilā fasīḥi ḥaḍarāti sh-shuhūdi wa-l-ʿiyān
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سائل باسط يد الفاقة الكلية يسأل منك الجود والإحسان مسجون مقيد فعسى يفك قيده ويطلق من سجن حجابه إلى فسيح حضرات الشهود والعيان
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Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 82 (pdf 44).