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A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out
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machinesummary, machine-writtenMufti Abu Layth recites a classical Arabic love poem in which the beloved gets the prophets' beauty and the poet their sorrows.
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Mufti Abu Layth recites and explains a classical Arabic love poem in which the poet says the prophetic attributes have been divided between him and his beloved. She has the beauty of Yusuf, the serene voice of Dawud and the chastity of Maryam, while he gets the sorrow of Yaqub, the dark trials of Yunus, the suffering of Ayyub and the remorse of Adam. Mufti calls it an epic poem and explains its famous line, 'if only I had cried before she cried', saying the first place always goes to the first. He then looks for an Urdu poem, finds that his video capture has gone missing since he reinstalled the software, and turns to the chat.
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people you know B you know this is the problem if I if I speak people say yeah he's going on so this poet classical poet when describing how obviously about the below the below he says this is how the prophetic attributes are distributed between us yeah he says
laaa Allah Allah he says look at the the attributes going that way so this is sometimes the belowed this is the kind of division the Judgment of lman Allah you know the beauty of
Yousef the the Serene tone of Da the Chast Chastity or modesty of maram Allah Allah Allah what about me what about me he says [Laughter] says for me I get the the sorrow of Jacob I get the the loneliness or the the dark you know the dark tribulations
of Jonah of Eunice the pain and suffering of a job and I get the just the kind of remorse of Adam this is how this is sometime the belowed the belowed so when people say look at mu Allah this is all it kind of applies but it's a beautiful poem um and it has the very famous line in it as well
that that if only I had cried before she had cried cry Allah Allah Allah that you know it would have dealt with these anxieties and issues if only before before before Allah people Allah said she cried before me and her crying made me cry so I had to admit that really first
position always goes to the first but it's an epic poem people epic poem right so what is going on H do I have uh I have a brief Udu poem always just start it off where's my picture gone hi hi hi hi I don't know
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Mufti Abu Layth. (2021, January 19). A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out [Video, segment 2021-01-19-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors]. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Retrieved November 1, 2026, from https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/2/
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Mufti Abu Layth. 2021. "A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out." Video, segment 2021-01-19-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors. Mufti Abu Layth Archive. Recorded January 19, 2021. Accessed November 1, 2026. https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/2/
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@misc{abulayth-2021-01-19-S02, author = {Mufti Abu Layth}, title = {{A classical Arabic love poem on how the prophets' attributes are shared out}}, year = {2021}, month = {1}, date = {2021-01-19}, howpublished = {\url{https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/2/}}, url = {https://muftiabulayth.org/r/hv-blbvtr4m/s/2/}, organization = {Mufti Abu Layth Archive}, urldate = {2026-11-01}, note = {Segment 2021-01-19-S02, auto-transcribed, may contain errors} }
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