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Al - Asmāi then repeated these lines : 6 ' Any bedfellow is good on the break of day , after a frosty night , when the chilled ( sleeper ) shivers with cold . God makes her as charming to the heart as the son is charming to the eyes of ...
Al - Asmāi then repeated these lines : 6 ' Any bedfellow is good on the break of day , after a frosty night , when the chilled ( sleeper ) shivers with cold . God makes her as charming to the heart as the son is charming to the eyes of ...
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The light of their fire glimmered ( from afar ) , and already the night had darkened ( around us ) ; the weary camel - driver could no longer continue his song , and our guide stood perplexed and bewildered .
The light of their fire glimmered ( from afar ) , and already the night had darkened ( around us ) ; the weary camel - driver could no longer continue his song , and our guide stood perplexed and bewildered .
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66 666 66 66 66 Such is our fire ; it shineth for him who travelleth at night , but it cannot be reached . " The share of it which falls to the sight is the utmost which can be obtained ; but those " able to conceive this are few in ...
66 666 66 66 66 Such is our fire ; it shineth for him who travelleth at night , but it cannot be reached . " The share of it which falls to the sight is the utmost which can be obtained ; but those " able to conceive this are few in ...
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The night : moral darkness . The camel - driver : the preacher . The guide : the divine . The beloved : God . Laila : the name of the beloved , God . Desire : the love of God . Passion : The anxious wish to enjoy the divine Presence .
The night : moral darkness . The camel - driver : the preacher . The guide : the divine . The beloved : God . Laila : the name of the beloved , God . Desire : the love of God . Passion : The anxious wish to enjoy the divine Presence .
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Am I not as they , except that I must pass a few more sad nights to complete the time of my existence ? The following lines also are quoted as his in the same work : I always hope to meet my beloved , and yet I know full well that I ...
Am I not as they , except that I must pass a few more sad nights to complete the time of my existence ? The following lines also are quoted as his in the same work : I always hope to meet my beloved , and yet I know full well that I ...
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| Title | Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Volume 2 Ibn Khallikan's Biographical Dictionary, Ibn Khallikān Volume 57 of Oriental Translation Fund Volume 57 of Publications (Oriental translation fund) |
| Author | Ibn Khallikān |
| Translated by | William MacGuckin baron de Slane |
| Publisher | Oriental translation fund of Great Britain and Ireland, 1843 |
| Original from | Barcelona Athenaeum Library |
| Digitized | 21 Jan 2010 |
| Length | 616 pages |
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