Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

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Clause 45 of 99 · Far from home

رَبِّ لِمَنْ قَصْدٌ وَأَنْتَ الْمَقْصُودُ وَإِلَى مَنْ تَوَجُّهٌ وَأَنْتَ الْحَقُّ الْمَوْجُودُ

My Lord, towards whom is any aim, when You are the One aimed at? To whom any turning, when You are the Real who is?

Rabbi li-man qaṣdun wa-anta l-maqṣūdu wa-ilā man tawajjuhun wa-anta l-ḥaqqu l-mawjūd

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رب لمن قصد وأنت المقصود وإلى من توجه وأنت الحق الموجود
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Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 83 (pdf 44).
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Reading
Read «لمن قصدٌ … وإلى من توجّهٌ» as nouns; the vowels are not all clear, and «قصد» could be the verb («who has aimed»).
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