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هو الحب فاسلم بالحشا ما الهوى سهل

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33 · 13 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

فَحَالِي وَإِنْ سَاءَتْ فَقَدْ حَسُنَتْ بِهَا وَمَا حَطَّ قَدْرِي فِي هَوَاهَا بِهِ أَعْلُو

So my state, even if it is bad, is good through her. / And what lowers my standing in passion for her is the very thing by which I rise.

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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.