ʿUmar ibn al-Fāriḍ · al-Khamriyya

The Wine Ode

Name: The Wine Ode
Author: Ibn al-Fāriḍ

القصيدة الخمرية (الميمية)

¶ 1
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
In remembrance of the Beloved we drank a wine; by it we were made drunk before ever the vine was created.
AI
In memory of the Beloved we quaffed a vintage that made us drunk before the creation of the vine.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 184
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¶ 2
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
The full moon is a cup for it, and it is a sun passed round by a crescent moon; and how many a star appears when it is mixed!
AI
Its cup the full-moon; itself a sun which a new moon causes to circle. When it is mingled (with water), how many stars appear!
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 184
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¶ 3
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Were it not for its fragrance, I would not have found my way to its tavern; and were it not for its radiance, the imagination could not have pictured it.
AI
But for its perfume, I should not have found the way to its taverns; and but for its resplendence, the imagination would not have pictured it.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 184
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¶ 4
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Time has left nothing of it but a last faint breath of life, as though its very hiddenness in the breasts of the intellects were a secret kept.
AI
Time hath preserved of it but a breath: it is unseen as a thing hidden in the bosom of the mind.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 5
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And should she be mentioned in the encampment, its people would wake up drunken, with neither shame upon them nor sin.
AI
If it be mentioned amongst the tribe, the tribesmen become intoxicated without incurring disgrace or committing sin.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 6
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And from within the innermost depths of the wine-jars it rose up, until in reality nothing remained of it but a name.
AI
It oozed up from the inmost depths of the jars (and vanished), and in reality nothing was left of it but a name.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 7
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And should it one day pass across a man's mind, joys would take up residence in him, and care would depart.
AI
If it ever come into the mind of a man, joy will abide with him and grief will journey away.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 8
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were the boon-companions but to look upon the seal of its vessel, that seal alone, without the wine itself, would make them drunk.
AI
And had the boon-companions beheld the sealing of its vessel, that sealing would have inebriated them without (their having tasted) the wine;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 9
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were they to sprinkle some of it upon the soil of a dead man's grave, the spirit would return to him and the body would revive.
AI
And had they sprinkled with it the earth of a dead man's grave, his spirit would have returned to him, and his body would have risen;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 10
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were they to lay a sick man, already at the brink of death, in the shade of the wall around its vine, the sickness would leave him.
AI
And had they laid down in the shadow of the wall where its vine grows a man sick unto death, his malady would have departed from him;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 11
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were they to bring a cripple near its tavern, he would walk; and at the mere remembrance of its taste the mute would speak.
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And had they brought to its taverns one palsied, he would have walked; and at the mention of its flavour the dumb would speak;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 12
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were the breaths of its fragrance to waft in the East while in the West lay one stricken with a cold, his sense of smell would return to him.
AI
And had the breath of its aroma floated through the East, and were there in the West one that had lost the sense of smell, he would have regained it;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 13
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were the palm of one who touches it dyed from its cup, he would not stray in the night, with the star in his hand.
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And had the palm of one touching its cup been stained red thereby, he would not have gone astray at night, the lodestar being in his hand;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 14
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Alludes to the Quran 27:80; 30:52; 43:40; 10:42
And were it unveiled in secret to one born blind, he would become seeing; and from its filter the deaf would hear.
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And had it been unveiled in secret (as a bride) to one blind from birth, he would have become seeing; and at the sound of its (decanting into the) strainer the deaf would hear;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 15
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were a caravan to make for the soil of her land, with one among the riders stung by a scorpion or snake, the venom would do him no harm.
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And had a party of camel-riders set out for the soil that bore it, and were there amongst them one bitten by a snake, the venom would not have harmed him;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 185
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¶ 16
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were the charmer to trace the letters of her name upon the brow of one stricken and gone mad, the tracing alone would heal him.
AI
And had the sorcerer inscribed the letters of its name on the brow of one smitten with madness, the writing would have cured him;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 17
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And were her name inscribed upon the army's banner, that inscription would make drunk all who stand beneath the banner.
AI
And had its name been blazoned on the banner of the host, that blazon would have intoxicated those beneath the banner.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 18
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
It refines the characters of the boon-companions, so that by it one who has no resolve is guided to the path of resolve.
AI
It corrects the natures of the boon-companions, so that those who lack resolution are led by it to the path of resolution,
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 19
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And he whose hand has never known generosity becomes open-handed [through it], and he who has no forbearance becomes forbearing in the moment of rage.
AI
And he whose hand was a stranger to munificence shows himself generous, and he who had no forbearance forbears in the hour of wrath.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 20
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And should the dullard of the company but attain to kissing her strainer, that kiss would bestow on him the very meaning of her qualities.
AI
Had the dullest-witted man in the tribe kissed its fidám, his kissing it would have endued him with the real inwardness of the wine's qualities.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 21
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
They say to me: "Describe it, for you are well versed in its description." Yes indeed: I have knowledge of its qualities.
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They say to me, "Describe it, for thou art acquainted with its description." Ay, well do I know its attributes:
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 22
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Clarity, yet no water; subtlety, yet no air; light, yet no fire; spirit, yet no body.
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Pure, but not as water; subtle, but not as air; luminous, but not as fire; spirit, but not (joined to) body.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 23
تَقَدَّمَ كُلَّ الْكَائِنَاتِ حَدِيثُهَا
قَدِيماً وَلَا شَكْلٌ هُنَاكَ وَلَا رَسْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
The (Divine) discourse concerning it was eternally prior to all existing things (in the knowledge of God), where is no form nor any external trace;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 24
وَقَامَتْ بِهَا الْأَشْيَاءُ ثَمَّ لِحِكْمَةٍ
بِهَا احْتَجَبَتْ عَنْ كُلِّ مَنْ لَا لَهُ فَهْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And there through it all things came into being because of a (Divine) providence whereby it was veiled from every one that lacketh understanding.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 25
وَهَامَتْ بِهَا رُوحِي بِحَيْثُ تَمَازَجَا
اتِّحَاداً وَلَا جِرْمٌ تَخَلَّلَهُ جِرْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And my spirit was enamoured of it in such wise that they (my spirit and the wine) were mingled together and made one, not as a body pervades a body.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 26
فَخَمْرٌ وَلَا كَرْمٌ وَآدَمُ لِي أَبٌ
وَكَرْمٌ وَلَا خَمْرٌ وَلِي أُمُّهَا أُمُّ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
There is a wine without a vine, when Adam is a father to me; there is a vine without a wine, when its mother is a mother to me.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 186
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¶ 27
وَلُطْفُ الْأَوَانِي فِي الْحَقِيقَةِ تَابِعٌ
لِلُطْفِ الْمَعَانِي وَالْمَعَانِي بِهَا تَنْمُو
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
The (essential) subtlety of the vessels (forms) depends in truth on the subtlety of the realities; and by means of the vessels the realities increase
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 28
وَقَدْ وَقَعَ التَّفْرِيقُ وَالْكُلُّ وَاحِدٌ
فَأَرْوَاحُنَا خَمْرٌ وَأَشْبَاحُنَا كَرْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
After division has occurred, so that, while the whole is one, our spirits are a wine and our bodies a vine.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 29
وَلَا قَبْلَهَا قَبْلٌ وَلَا بَعْدَ بَعْدِهَا
وَقَبْلِيَّةُ الْأَبْعَادِ فَهْيَ لَهَا حَتْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Before it is no "before" and after it is no "after"; it is the "before" of every "after" by the necessity of its nature.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 30
وَعَصْرُ الْمَدَى مِنْ قَبْلِهِ كَانَ عَصْرُهَا
وَعَهْدُ أَبِينَا بَعْدَهَا وَلَهَا الْيُتْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Its grapes were pressed in the winepress ere Time began, and it was an orphan although the epoch of our father (Adam) came after it.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 31
مَحَاسِنُ تَهْدِي الْمَادِحِينَ لِوَصْفِهَا
فَيَحْسُنُ فِيهَا مِنْهُمُ النَّثْرُ وَالنَّظْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Such are the beauties that lead its praisers to laud it, and beautiful is their prose and verse in its honour.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 32
وَيَطْرَبُ مَنْ لَمْ يَدْرِهَا عِنْدَ ذِكْرِهَا
كَمُشْتَاقِ نُعْمٍ كُلَّمَا ذُكِرَتْ نُعْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And he that knows it not thrills at the mention of it, like the lover of Nu'm when her name is spoken.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 33
وَقَالُوا شَرِبْتَ الإِثْمَ كَلّا وَإِنَّمَا
شَرِبْتُ الَّتِي فِي تَرْكِهَا عِنْدِيَ الإِثْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
They said, "Thou hast drunk the draught of sin." Nay, I have only drunk what, in my judgment, ’twere the greatest sin to renounce.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 34
هَنِيئاً لِأَهْلِ الدَّيْرِ كَمْ سَكِرُوا بِهَا
وَمَا شَرِبُوا مِنْهَا وَلٰكِنَّهُمْ هَمُّوا
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Health to the people of the Christian monastery! How often were they intoxicated by it without having drunk thereof! Still, they aspired.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 187
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¶ 35
وَعِنْدِي مِنْهَا نَشْوَةٌ قَبْلَ نَشْأَتِي
مَعِي أَبَداً تَبْقَى وَإِنْ بَلِيَ الْعَظْمُ
Metre: not scanned
As vowelled here, this verse does not fit al-ṭawīl, the metre of the poem; it is left unscanned rather than forced. The first half fits al-ṭawīl if ʿindī is read ʿindiya (the first-person yāʾ with a fatḥa, a common licence in verse); the vowelled text has ʿindī.
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
In me, ere I was born, it stirred a transport that abides with me for ever, though my bones decay.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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¶ 36
عَلَيْكَ بِهَا صِرْفاً وَإِنْ شِئْتَ مَزْجَهَا
فَعَدْلُكَ عَنْ ظَلْمِ الْحَبِيبِ هُوَ الظُّلْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Take it pure! but if thou wish to temper it, the worst wrong is thy turning aside from the water of the Beloved's teeth.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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¶ 37
فَدُونَكَهَا فِي الْحَانِ وَاسْتَجْلِهَا بِهِ
عَلَى نَغَمِ الْأَلْحَانِ فَهْيَ بِهَا غُنْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Seek it in the tavern, and there to the accompaniment of tuneful notes bid it display itself, for by means of music it is made a prize.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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¶ 38
فَمَا سَكَنَتْ وَالْهَمَّ يَوْماً بِمَوْضِعٍ
كَذَلِكَ لَمْ يَسْكُنْ مَعَ النَّغَمِ الْغَمُّ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Wine never dwelt with Care in any place, even as Sorrow never dwelt with Song;
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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¶ 39
وَفِي سَكْرَةٍ مِنْهَا وَلَوْ عُمْرَ سَاعَةٍ
تَرَى الدَّهْرَ عَبْداً طَائِعاً وَلَكَ الْحُكْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
And, though thy intoxication with it have but the life of a moment, thou wilt regard Time as a slave obedient to thy command.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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¶ 40
فَلَا عَيْشَ فِي الدُّنْيَا لِمَنْ عَاشَ صَاحِياً
وَمَنْ لَمْ يَمُتْ سُكْراً بِهَا فَاتَهُ الحَزْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
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Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Joyless in this world is he that lives sober, and he that dies not drunk will miss the path of wisdom.
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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¶ 41
عَلَى نَفْسِهِ فَلْيَبْكِ مَنْ ضَاعَ عُمْرُهُ
وَلَيْسَ لَهُ فِيهَا نَصِيبٌ وَلَا سَهْمُ
الطَّوِيلal-ṭawīl∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–∪–مَفَاعِلُنْ∪–∪فَعُولُ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ∪––فَعُولُنْ∪–––مَفَاعِيلُنْ
Ibn Jinnī on al-ṭawīl, “the long”
وهو على ثمانية أجزاء فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعلن فعولن مفاعلين فعولن مفاعيلن
It has eight feet: faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿilun, faʿūlun mafāʿīlun faʿūlun mafāʿīlun. Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, lines 75–76 (p. 59) ↗
The digital text reads مفاعلين for مفاعيلن; quoted as it stands.
Scanned by rule, not by a model. The vowelled text is read as it is pronounced, as Ibn Jinnī says scansion must be: doubled letters count twice, tanwīn adds an n, long vowels lengthen, the connecting alif drops inside the line, the article's l merges into a sun letter, and the last vowel of a line is drawn out. The syllables, long (–) and short (∪), are then fitted to each metre's feet with the common licences (zihāfāt) and line-endings. A poem has one metre: the one that fits most of its verses. A verse that does not fit it is marked 'not scanned'; nothing is guessed. Vowels scanned: Sharḥ Dīwān Ibn al-Fāriḍ (Cairo 1289/1872), verses fully vowelled in the print; AI only where a mark was not legible.
Scanned by rule English: AI translation AI
Ibn Jinnī (d. 392/1002), Kitāb al-ʿArūḍ, ed. Aḥmad Fawzī al-Hayb (Kuwait: Dār al-Qalam, 1407/1987). Digital text: 0392IbnJinniMawsili.Carud.JK000956-ara1 (OpenITI RELEASE v2025.1.9). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0 (OpenITI digital text); the classical text is public domain, the modern edition is not.
Let him weep for himself — he whose life is wasted without part or lot in wine!
R. A. Nicholson, Studies in Islamic Mysticism (Cambridge 1921), p. 188
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Translations, word glosses and term notes are AI-generated (Claude) and marked as such; the only published translation shown is Nicholson's translation (1921), which is in the public domain.Word analysis is automatic (CAMeL Tools), guided by the text's vowelling. How this text was established.