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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 43 of 99 · Far from home

رَبِّ أَيُّ بَابٍ يُقْصَدُ غَيْرُ بَابِكَ وَأَيُّ جَنَابٍ يُتَوَجَّهُ إِلَيْهِ غَيْرُ جَنَابِكَ

My Lord, what door is there to go to but Yours, what court to turn to but Yours?

Rabbi ayyu bābin yuqṣadu ghayru bābika wa-ayyu janābin yutawajjahu ilayhi ghayru janābik

Latin reading

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    رب أي باب يقصد غير بابك وأي جناب يتوجه إليه غير جنابك

    The base text (see This edition)

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    Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 83 (pdf 44).

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