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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 65 of 99 · Take my hand

وَارْحَمْ بِجُودِكَ عَبْدًا مَا لَهُ سَبَبٌ يَرْجُو سِوَاكَ وَلَا عِلْمٌ وَلَا عَمَلُ

In Your generosity have mercy on a servant who has no means to hope in other than You, no knowledge and no deeds.

Wa-rḥam bi-jūdika ʿabdan mā lahu sababun / yarjū siwāka wa-lā ʿilmun wa-lā ʿamalu

Latin reading

  • Printed unvowelled

    وارحم بجودك عبدا ما له سبب يرجو سواك ولا علم ولا عمل

    The base text (see This edition)

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    Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 86 (pdf 46).

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  • Note

    These two lines and the next are in verse (the basīṭ metre), set into the prose.