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"arabic": "أَجِـدَّكِ هَـلْ تَـدْرِيـنَ أَنَّ رُبَّ لَيْلَةٍ كَـأَنَّ دُجَـاهَـا مِنْ قُـرُونِـكِ تَنْثَـرُ نَـصَبْـتُ لَهَـا حَـتَّى تَـجَلَّتْ بِغُـرَّةٍ كَغُـرَّةٍ يَحْيَى حِيـنَ يُـذْكَـرُ جَعفَـرُ",
"english": "In earnest — do you know how many a night / Whose darkness was as if scattered from your tresses, / I kept vigil for it until it broke with a white dawn / Like the bright face of Yaḥyā when Jaʿfar is mentioned?",
"explanation": "ʿAkkāwī cites this verse by Muslim ibn al-Walīd as a poetic example of barāʿat al-takhalluṣ: the image of dawn serves as the bridge between the nasīb and the madḥ.[2]"
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"english": "We bid them farewell, while our separation among us is as though it were the spears of Ibn Abī al-Hayjāʾ in the heart of an army.",
"explanation": "Nābulsī cites al-Mutanabbī's verse in praise of Sayf al-Dawla as an example of ḥusn al-takhalluṣ. The poet moves from the theme of parting to praise through the comparison of the pain of separation with the patron's spears penetrating an army, so that the image itself carries the poem into its new subject.[5]"
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"arabic": "طَالَ السَّهَرُ وَأَرَّقَتْنِي ذِكْرَاكِ، وَالنَّجْمُ يَسْبَحُ فِي سَمَاءٍ مُعْتِمَة، حَتَّى تَنَفَّسَ الفَجْرُ بِضِيَاءٍ كَضِيَاءِ وَجْهِ العَدَالَةِ يَوْمَ أَنْصَفَ القَاضِي المَظْلُومِينَ.",
"english": "Long was the sleepless night, and your memory kept me wakeful, / as the stars drifted through a darkened sky, / until dawn breathed its light — bright as the face of justice / on the day the judge vindicated the wronged.",
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