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Mashrabaمشربة

The Munājāt of Ibn ʿAṭāʾ Allāh

المناجاة العطائية

Clause 16 of 33 · The intimate prayers

اِلٰهِى كَيْفَ أَعْزِمُ وَأَنْتَ الْقَاهِرُ وَكَيْفَ لَا أَعْزِمُ وَأَنْتَ الْآمِرُ

My God, how can I resolve, when You are the Overpowering? And how can I not resolve, when You are the One who commands?

Ilāhī kayfa aʿzimu wa-anta l-qāhiru wa-kayfa lā aʿzimu wa-anta l-āmir

Latin reading

Roots and lemmas:Automatic analysis

Roots and lemmas from CAMeL Tools and, for Qurʾān lines, the Quranic Arabic Corpus, with corrections checked against opened sources; most words await a reader's review.

  1. اِلٰهِىlemma إِلٰهroot أ ل ه
  2. كَيْفَ
  3. أَعْزِمُlemma عَزَمroot ع ز م
  4. وَأَنْتَlemma أَنْتَ
  5. الْقَاهِرُlemma قاهِرroot ق ه ر
  6. وَكَيْفَlemma كَيْفَ
  7. لَاlemma لا
  8. أَعْزِمُlemma عَزَمroot ع ز م
  9. وَأَنْتَlemma أَنْتَ
  10. الْآمِرُlemma آمِرroot أ م ر

4 roots, in order of first appearance. Each root page gathers its words across the library.

  • Printed unvowelled

    الهى كيف أعزم وأنت القاهر وكيف لا أعزم وأنت الآمر

    The base text (see This edition)

  • Page

    Ḥikam ¶283, in Ibn ʿAbbād's commentary, Cairo 1319/1901, p. 224 (pdf 228).

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