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هو الحب فاسلم بالحشا ما الهوى سهل

←Read ¶21 in the text

21 · 13 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

نَأَيْتُمْ فَغَيْرَ الدَّمْعِ لَمْ أَرَ وَافِيَا سِوَى زَفْرَةٍ مِنْ حَرِّ نَارِ الجَوَى تَعْلُو

You have gone far away, and I have found nothing faithful but the tear / except a sigh, from the heat of the fire of love's burning, that rises.

On the whole passage · 1 of 2

Only al-Būrīnī comments here.

al-Būrīnī

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 120 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 120, the commentary on this passage

Words 1–1 · 1 of 2

نَأَيْتُمْ

Only al-Nābulusī comments here.

al-Nābulusī

﴿تأيتم﴾

Quotes words that differ from our text (wavy underline).

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 120 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 120, the commentary on this passage

Words 7–7 · 1 of 2

سِوَى

Only al-Būrīnī comments here.

al-Būrīnī

﴿سوى﴾

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 120 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 120, the commentary on this passage

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.