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Arabic Poetry On Love | Mufti Abu Layth

muftis koran quraan al-quran walee awliya awliyah guardian salam as-salamu alaykum assalamu alaikum assalamualaikum salaams salam alaykum wa alaykum as-salam peace greeting sabr sabar

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0:00

masakino help and the fokara wood Allah Allah not would would in Arabic Wild wood these the people of love as in the words of mutton Abbi he says foreign

0:30

he says you know if we attain Your Love then the rest is nothing I will handle the rest yeah handle it man says he says everything you see above the Dust is in reality simply dust because that's all it will ultimately be reduced to very profound poem by I mean that in poetry there's always wisdom

1:08

you can't go wrong if you're investing your time in poetry um Walker Robinson it's been a long time Mufti well shukran shukran for joining us a few people from Pakistan here today are sajjad saying we've got a few achara well marhaban foreign

1:40

what's that poem was a poem that's the point we had uh who was it the we didn't have his name um At Your Service in in the plight of love that's a poem All About Love all about love man love ah it's it's epic it's it's a very uh

2:19

from the early Islamic Iran people ain't so sure some um who they attribute it to this diverse opinions but the poem is amazing some people attribute it to yazid but the poem itself is phenomenal phenomenal Arabic Allah even that's one of the final lines

2:46

said that I was I've I was certain that her eyes said marhaban that welcome to and well because the story that the the poet kind of sketches is that he turns up and she's um amongst her family but she kind of sneakingly welcomes him with the eyes but it's an epic he has so much so much in there you know it's the one where he says uh

3:35

only because what he's saying at one point is he's he must obviously be they must be separating or he must have come to complain or they must but she's but she starts crying it's the gentle the emotion man the emotion the emotion take over so she starts crying and he says um you know that he says that if only I had cried first you see that before she had started to cry

4:14

that that if only I had uh cried before then I would have you know had my heart's content foreign foreign he says but she cried before me and then her crying made me cry there's a connection connection he says so I had to admit that the credit goes to the one who got there first

4:51

Academy true people the one who gets there first and it is a in that poem he also has I have you guys have reminded me now okay about it he says uh he's he's kind of illustrating a description and he's dividing that it's he's claiming that it's not fair the relationship so he says look at what she gets and

5:29

look at what I get so he says look at all of these qualities huh todos estas well I have to practice the Spanish people so all of these qualities are for her he says and she gets the Judgment of luqman the wise in the Quran

6:09

you know the the beauty the unimaginable beauty of Yusuf Ali salaam she gets this form and the Rhythm of the the kind of rhythmic Melody of David and the Chastity of Maryam so all these prophetic archetypal qualities she gets and he says Wali and I get he says Wali

6:49

Wali husband [Laughter] he says what are these qualities for well it says I get the the sorrow of yakub of Jacob I get the the loneliness of Eunice I get the suffering of a youb and I get

7:26

the hasra to Adam and I get the the you know the kind of size and if only the of Adam look at the division wow what a poem man what a poem it's something a bit like uh like that in Urdu ones a part of it that I heard once where he says yeah

8:11

he says what did we not do in your love we did we kind of had the patience of a youth and and the crying of yaku but yeah that's poetry people poetry

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Mufti Abu Layth. (2022, November 14). Arabic Poetry On Love | Mufti Abu Layth [Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6gilrdq-oyq/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2022. "Arabic Poetry On Love | Mufti Abu Layth." Video, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded November 14, 2022. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6gilrdq-oyq/
BibTeX
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  author = {Mufti Abu Layth},
  title = {{Arabic Poetry On Love | Mufti Abu Layth}},
  year = {2022},
  month = {11},
  date = {2022-11-14},
  howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6gilrdq-oyq/}},
  url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/6gilrdq-oyq/},
  organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive},
  urldate = {2026-11-01},
  note = {Auto-transcribed, may contain errors}
}