A reading from Ibn 'Aqil's commentary (may Allah have mercy on him), with the Shaykh's annotations: " .
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The Shaykh : Yes.
The reader: " And the intended meaning is: 'No, what you have been provisioned with is more delicious than that.' And the saying of Dhur al-Rummah, describing women with fatness and laziness:
And there is no flaw in them except that their swiftest *** is a plucked fruit, and that none of them is lazier:
And the intended meaning is: 'and that none is lazier than them.' And his saying:
If Asma' accompanies a caravan one day *** then Asma' is more beautiful than that caravan:
The intended meaning is: 'then Asma' is more beautiful than that caravan' .
The Shaykh : Good:
" And there is no flaw in them except that their swiftest *** is a plucked fruit, and that none of them is lazier ":
The point of interest is in his saying: " and that none of them is lazier ", the intended meaning being: 'lazier than them.' Look at the language!! And what does it say?
The student: Shaykh!
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: In his saying, he mentioned the second verse and said: " And his saying ", does this refer back to Dhur al-Rummah?
The Shaykh : It is not apparent, no, rather because his saying is the saying of the poet.
The student: And that it is the same poet?
The Shaykh : No, no, for the poets, this is well known.
The student: The bees, he said!
The Shaykh : The bees.
The reader: " And the intended meaning is: 'No, what you have been provisioned with is more delicious than that.' And the saying of Dhur al-Rummah, describing women with fatness and laziness:
And there is no flaw in them except that their swiftest *** is a plucked fruit, and that none of them is lazier:
And the intended meaning is: 'and that none is lazier than them.' And his saying:
If Asma' accompanies a caravan one day *** then Asma' is more beautiful than that caravan:
The intended meaning is: 'then Asma' is more beautiful than that caravan' .
The Shaykh : Good:
" And there is no flaw in them except that their swiftest *** is a plucked fruit, and that none of them is lazier ":
The point of interest is in his saying: " and that none of them is lazier ", the intended meaning being: 'lazier than them.' Look at the language!! And what does it say?
The student: Shaykh!
The Shaykh : Yes.
The student: In his saying, he mentioned the second verse and said: " And his saying ", does this refer back to Dhur al-Rummah?
The Shaykh : It is not apparent, no, rather because his saying is the saying of the poet.
The student: And that it is the same poet?
The Shaykh : No, no, for the poets, this is well known.
The student: The bees, he said!
The Shaykh : The bees.