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هو الحب فاسلم بالحشا ما الهوى سهل

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31 · 14 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

وَمَا لِيَ مِثْلٌ فِي غَرَامِي بِهَا كَمَا غَدَتْ فِتْنَةً فِي حُسْنِهَا مَا لَهَا مِثْلُ

I have no equal in my ardent love for her, just as she has become, in her beauty, a trial for whom there is no equal. / No one is like me in my consuming love for her, as she, in her loveliness, has become a fitna without peer.

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al-Būrīnī

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 124 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 124, the commentary on this passage
al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 124

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