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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 50 of 99 · No lord but You

رَبٌّ تُبْسَطُ الْأَكُفُّ وَتُرْفَعُ الْحَاجَاتُ إِلَيْهِ فَلَيْسَ إِلَّا كَرَمُكَ وَجُودُكَ

A lord to whom palms are spread and needs are raised? There is nothing but Your generosity and Your bounty.

Rabbun tubsaṭu l-akuffu wa-turfaʿu l-ḥājātu ilayhi fa-laysa illā karamuka wa-jūduk

Latin reading

  • Printed unvowelled

    رب تبسط الأكف وترفع الحاجات إليه فليس إلا كرمك وجودك

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 84 (pdf 45).

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  • Reading

    «رب» is read as «a lord», continuing the question, because of «إليه» (to him) after it; it could also be the address «my Lord».