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هو الحب فاسلم بالحشا ما الهوى سهل

←Read ¶47 in the text

47 · 12 words · shading: how many commentators stop on each word

وَمِنْ أَجْلِهَا أَسْعَى لِمَنْ بَيْنَنَا سَعَى وَأَعْدُو وَلَا أَغْدُو لِمَنْ دَأْبُهُ العَذْلُ

For her sake I hasten toward whoever goes between us as go-between, / and I run to him; but to one whose habit is blame I do not go out at morning.

On the whole passage · 2 of 2

al-Būrīnī

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 131 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 131, the commentary on this passage

al-Nābulusī

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 131 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 131, the commentary on this passage

Words 3–3 · 1 of 2

أَسْعَى

Only al-Nābulusī comments here.

al-Nābulusī

﴿أسعى﴾

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 131 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 131, the commentary on this passage

Words 7–8 · 2 of 2

وَأَعْدُو وَلَا

al-Būrīnī

﴿واعدو﴾

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 131 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 131, the commentary on this passage

﴿ولا﴾

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 131 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 131, the commentary on this passage

al-Nābulusī

﴿واعدو﴾

Commentary: see the 1872 print, p. 131 (the printed Arabic has not been re-read yet)

The 1872 print, page 131, 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.