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مَحَاسِنُ تَهْدِي الْمَادِحِينَ لِوَصْفِهَا فَيَحْسُنُ فِيهَا مِنْهُمُ النَّثْرُ وَالنَّظْمُ

[Hers are] beauties that guide those who praise her to describe her, so that both their prose and their verse about her become beautiful.

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مَحَاسِنُ تَهْدِي الْمَادِحِينَ

al-Būrīnī

﴿محاسن﴾

بالرفع خبر مبتدا محذوف أى هى محاسن والضمير يعود لجميع ما ذكر فى القصيدة من أوصاف المدامة وتمدى بفتح التاء من هدى يهدى بمع مى دل بلطائف وفاعل تهدى ضمير مستكن تقديره هى يعود للمحاسن والواصفين مفعوله والتقدير هى محاسن عظيمة تدل الواصفين على وصفها أى تدل الناس الواصفين لها على وصفها فهى تدل على ذاتها سبحان من دل بذاته على ذاته ما عرف الله الا الله

In the nominative, as the khabar (predicate) of an omitted mubtadaʾ (subject), that is, “they are beauties.” The pronoun refers to all the attributes of the wine mentioned in the ode. Tahdī, with fatḥa on the tāʾ, is from hadā yahdī, meaning “guided with subtleties.” The agent of tahdī is a latent pronoun, understood as hiya, referring to the beauties, and al-wāṣifīn (those who describe) is its object. The implied sense is: they are great beauties that guide those who describe to describing them; that is, they guide the people who describe them to describing them. So they point to their own essence. “Glory be to Him who pointed by His essence to His essence!” “None knows God but God.”

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 190

al-Nābulusī

﴿محاسن﴾

أى هذه محاسن يعنى صفات المدامة التى تقدم ذكرها وفى

That is, these are beauties, meaning the attributes of the wine whose mention has preceded. And in

al-Nābulusī · pt. II, p. 190

﴿تهدى المادحين﴾

اشارة الى انهم ما مدحوها الا بما هدتهم محاسنها اليه من كشفهم عن معانى تجلياتها باسمائها الحسنى

[there is] an allusion that they praised it only with what its beauties guided them to, through their kashf (unveiling) of the meanings of its tajalliyāt (self-disclosures) by its most beautiful names.

al-Nābulusī · pt. II, p. 190

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لِوَصْفِهَا فَيَحْسُنُ فِيهَا

al-Būrīnī

﴿لوصفها﴾

متعلق بتهدى أى تدل تلك الهاس الواصفين الى وصفها فاللام بمعنى الى وفى البيت الطباق بين النثر والنظم وفى ذكر النثرو النظم اشارة الى ان الفاظهم فى وصفها در مكنون

Connected to tahdī; that is, those […] [beauties] guide those who describe to describing them, so the lām is in the sense of ilā (to). In the verse there is ṭibāq (antithesis) between nathr and naẓm. In the mention of nathr (scattering, prose) and naẓm (stringing, verse) there is an allusion that their words in describing it are hidden pearls.

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 190

﴿فيحسن فيها﴾

أى فى تلك المحاسن منهم أى من الواصفين النثر وهو الكلام المقفى من غير ملاحظة وزن والنظم المقفى مع ملاحظة الوزن على واحد من البحور المذكورة فى كتب العروض وتسعدنى فى غمرة بعد غمرة • سبوح لها منها عليها شواهد

That is, in those beauties. Minhum means from those who describe. Al-nathr (prose) is rhymed speech without regard to meter, and al-naẓm (verse) is rhymed [speech] with regard to meter, according to one of the meters mentioned in the books of prosody (ʿarūḍ). “And a swift-swimming [steed] aids me in plunge after plunge, / having witnesses to it, from itself, against itself.”

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 190

al-Nābulusī

﴿فيحسن فيها﴾

أى فى المدامة المذكورة أو فى تلك المحاسن اه

That is, in the aforementioned wine, or in those beauties.

al-Nābulusī · pt. II, p. 190

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