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THE TAUJUJIAN AL-ASHWAQ (X X X l) 117
4. Alight here and abide, for I love one who is with you,
5. A woman, slender, lissome, of fresh beauty, for whom
the heart of the sad lover is longing.’
b. The assembly is filled with fragrance at the mention
of her, and every tpngue utters her name.
7. And if her seat were a valley (but her throne is a high
mountain),
8. The low ground would be made high by her: he who
looks enviously .shall never attain to that height.
9. By her is every desert peopled, and by lier is eveiy
mirage transformed to abundant water,
10. And b}' her is every meadow made bright, and by her
is every wine made cleai'.
11. My night is radiant with her face, and my day is dark
with her hair.
12. The core of my heart, when the Clehver shot it through
with her arrows,
13. Was cloven by ej^es which are accu.stomed to aim at
the entrails, and none of their .shafts misses the
mark.
14. No owl in de.sert places, no ring-dove or croaking
raven
15. Is more unluckj' than a full-grown camel which thej’
saddled, that it might carry away one whose beauty
is sui'passing,
16. And might leave at Dhat al-Ada a passionate lover
slain, although in love of them he is true.
‘ Dlnlt al-A<.hl,’ in Tihdma, i.e. the station of abasement
C o m m e n ta r y
1. ‘ A lightning-cloud,’ i.e. a manife.station of the Es.sence.

pertaining to exaltation, for God exalts those who humble
themselves before Him.
‘ Light,’ i.e. the light of exaltation.
4. ‘ Here,’ i.e. beside one who seeks and loves you.
‘ One who is with you’ : he addresses the sciences imparted
to liiin by this manifestation. Inasmucli as they are sought.