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هو الحب فاسلم بالحشا ما الهوى سهل

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17 · 13 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

وَمَا الصَّدُّ إِلَّا الوُدُّ مَا لَمْ يَكُنْ قِلًى وَأَصْعَبُ شَيْءٍ غَيْرَ إِعْرَاضِكُمْ سَهْلُ

Your rejection is nothing but affection, so long as it is not hatred, / and the hardest of things, short of your turning away from me, is easy.

On the whole passage · 1 of 2

Only al-Būrīnī comments here.

al-Būrīnī

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-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 118

Words 1–2 · 1 of 2

وَمَا الصَّدُّ

Only al-Nābulusī comments here.

al-Nābulusī

﴿وما الصد﴾

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

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