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القصيدة الخمرية (الميمية)

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فَمَا سَكَنَتْ وَالْهَمَّ يَوْماً بِمَوْضِعٍ كَذَلِكَ لَمْ يَسْكُنْ مَعَ النَّغَمِ الْغَمُّ

Never, on any day, have it and care dwelt together in one place, just as grief has never dwelt alongside melody.

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فَمَا سَكَنَتْ وَالْهَمَّ يَوْماً

al-Būrīnī

﴿فما سكنت والهم يوما﴾

بمو وضع يكون تعليلا لقوله فدونكها فى الحان

…bi-mawḍiʿ is a justification of his saying “So take it, in the tavern”

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 194

﴿فما سكنت﴾

الى آخره جملة تعليلية كأن قائلا يقول لم أمرت بتناولها فى حانها على نغم ألحانها فقال فما سكنت الى آخره واعلم أن بعض الرواة لهذا الديوان يروون

to the end [of the line] is a causal clause, as though someone were saying: why did you command partaking of it in its tavern, to the melodies of its tunes? So he said: “For it has never dwelt…” to the end. And know that some of the transmitters of this Dīwān transmit

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 194

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وَالْهَمَّ

al-Būrīnī

﴿والهم﴾

منصوب على انه مفعول معه والواو للمعية ويجوز على ضعف والهم بالرفع على أنه معطوف على الضمير المستكن أى سكنت من غير فاصل وقد استعمل مثله المتنبى حيث قال يباعدن خلا يجتمعن ووصل • فكيف بخل يجتمعن وصده الشاهد فى وصده بالرفع على أنه معطوف على النون فى يجتمعن وحرف الروى مرفوع وأول القصيدة أود من الايام مالا توده • واشكو اليها بيننا وهى جنده يباعدن خلا يجتمعن ووصله • فكيف بخل يجتمعن وصده

It is in the accusative as a mafʿūl maʿahu (object of accompaniment), the wāw being of accompaniment. It is also permissible, though weak, [to read] wa-l-hammu in the nominative, as conjoined to the concealed pronoun, i.e. [in] sakanat, without a separating element. Al-Mutanabbī used the like of it, where he said: “They keep apart a friend though they and his union meet together, / so how then a friend when they and his aversion meet together?” The evidence is in waṣduhu in the nominative, as conjoined to the nūn in yajtamiʿna; and the rhyme letter (rawī) is in the nominative. The beginning of the ode is: “I want from the days what they do not want, / and I complain to them of our separation, while they are its troops. / They keep apart a friend though they and his union meet together, / so how then a friend when they and his aversion meet together?”

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 195

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كَذَلِكَ لَمْ يَسْكُنْ مَعَ النَّغَمِ الْغَمُّ

al-Būrīnī

﴿كذلك لم يسكن مع النغم الغم﴾

يكون تعليلا لقوله واستجلها به على نغم الادان وهذا ظاهر مع ما فيه من زيادة الجناس المطرف فى

is a justification of his saying “and seek its unveiling there, to the melodies of the tunes”. This is evident, together with the additional al-jinās al-muṭarraf (paronomasia with an added letter) it contains in

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 194

﴿كذلك لم يسكن مع النعم﴾

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

بالنون المكسورة والعين المهملة المفتوحة على انها جمع نعمة التى تكون بمعنى الانعام: وبمعنى المنعم به ويكون المعنى على الرواية كذلك أى كما ان المدامة ما سكنت مع الهم بمنزل فى يوم من الايام كذلك النعم لا تسكن مع الغم فى موضع واحد وعندى أن هذه الرواية تحريف بل الصواب كذلك لم يسكن مع النغم الغم بفتح النون المشددة وبعدها غين معجمة على أنها جمع نغمة كما سبق فى البيت قبله وذلك لان البيت الذى قبله مشتمل على الامر بتناولها فى حانها بنغم ألحانها وهذا البيت تعليل له فاذا كانت الرواية مع النغم بالنون المفتوحة والغين المعجمة كان التعليل لشيئين بشيئين على سيل اللف والنشر المرتب وذلك أن

with kasra on the nūn and fatḥa on the undotted ʿayn, as the plural of niʿma, which can mean the act of bestowing and the thing bestowed. On this reading the meaning is: likewise, i.e. just as the wine has never dwelt with care in an abode on any day, so blessings do not dwell with grief in one place. In my view this reading is a distortion; rather, the correct [reading] is “kadhālika lam yaskun maʿa l-nagham al-ghamm”, with fatḥa on the doubled nūn followed by the dotted ghayn, as the plural of naghma, as came in the verse before it. That is because the verse before it contains the command to partake of it in its tavern to the melodies of its tunes, and this verse is the justification for it. So if the reading is maʿa l-nagham, with fatḥa on the nūn and the dotted ghayn, the justification is of two things by two things by way of al-laff wa-l-nashr al-murattab (ordered involution and evolution); that is,

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 194

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النَّغَمِ

al-Būrīnī

﴿نغم﴾

وغم ومع مافيه من مناسبة المقام فى الانغام والمدام بخلاف النعم بكسر النون والعين المهملة المفتوحة على انها جمع نعمة لا يناسب السياق ولا السباق الا بارتجاع عظيم وتكلف جسيم فافهم

and ghamm, and together with its fittingness to the context in [joining] melodies and wine; unlike al-niʿam, with kasra on the nūn and fatḥa on the undotted ʿayn, as the plural of niʿma, which suits neither what follows nor what precedes except by a great […] and heavy strain. So understand.

al-Būrīnī · pt. II, p. 194–195

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