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Mashrabaمشربة

Ḥizb al-Shakwā

حزب الشكوى

Clause 81 of 99 · Take my hand

رَبِّ إِنِّي أَشْكُو إِلَيْكَ بَثِّي وَحُزْنِي وَكَمَدِي يَا مَنْ هُوَ عَوْنِي وَمَلْجَئِي وَمَوْلَايَ وَسَنَدِي

My Lord, I complain to You of my distress, my sorrow and my grief, You who are my help, my refuge, my Master and my support.

Rabbi innī ashkū ilayka baththī wa-ḥuznī wa-kamadī yā man huwa ʿawnī wa-maljaʾī wa-mawlāya wa-sanadī

Latin reading

  • Printed unvowelled

    رب إني أشكو إليك بثي وحزني وكمدي يا من هو عوني وملجئي ومولاي وسندي

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Gümüşhanevī, Majmūʿat al-aḥzāb (the Shādhilī aḥzāb), Istanbul, dated 1311 (1890s), p. 87 (pdf 46).

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  • Qurʾān

    «I complain of my distress and my sorrow to God» is Jacob's word in Qurʾān 12:86.