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هو الحب فاسلم بالحشا ما الهوى سهل

←Read ¶16 in the text

16 · 13 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

إِذَا كَانَ حَظِّي الهَجْرَ مِنْكُمْ وَلَمْ يَكُنْ بِعَادٌ فَذَاكَ الهَجْرُ عِنْدِي هُوَ الوَصْلُ

If my portion from you is estrangement, and there is no distance, then that estrangement is, to me, union.

On the whole passage · 2 of 2

al-Būrīnī

al-Nābulusī

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 118 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 118, the commentary on this passage
al-Nābulusī · pt. II, p. 118

Words 6–8 · 1 of 2

وَلَمْ يَكُنْ بِعَادٌ

Only al-Nābulusī comments here.

al-Nābulusī

﴿ولم يكن بعاد﴾

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 118 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 118, the commentary on this passage
al-Nābulusī · pt. II, p. 118

Arabic of the commentaries from our collation of two OCRs of the printed edition, with disagreements settled by AI against the page image (each comment links to its page scan); passages matched to the commentators' quotations automatically.English translations of the commentaries and of the passage are AI (Claude) and marked. Differences are computed by comparing the words each commentator quotes with our working text; they may reflect a different manuscript reading, a paraphrase, or an alignment error. About this text.