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Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

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Clause 53 of 99 · No lord but You

قَدْ جَفَانِي الْقَرِيبُ وَمَلَّنِي الطَّبِيبُ وَشَمِتَ بِيَ الْعَدُوُّ وَالرَّقِيبُ وَاشْتَدَّ بِيَ الْكَرْبُ وَالنَّحِيبُ وَأَنْتَ الْوَدُودُ الرَّقِيبُ الرَّؤُوفُ الْمُجِيبُ

The near one has turned cold to me, the doctor has tired of me, the enemy and the watcher gloat over me, distress and weeping press hard on me; and You are the Loving, the Watchful, the Kind, the Answerer.

Qad jafānī l-qarību wa-mallanī ṭ-ṭabību wa-shamita biya l-ʿaduwwu wa-r-raqību wa-shtadda biya l-karbu wa-n-naḥību wa-anta l-wadūdu r-raqību r-raʾūfu l-mujīb

Latin reading

Notes

  • Printed unvowelled

    قد جفاني القريب وملني الطبيب وشمت بي العدو والرقيب واشتد بي الكرب والنحيب وأنت الودود الرقيب الرؤوف المجيب

    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

    The reading is uncertain: «والنحيب» (and weeping) is read for a worn word that the rhyme needs to end in -īb.