The first idea (verses 1-4): exile, its motive and its results
Point 6 of 12 — Lesson 2: The Evening by Khalil Mutran and the Foundations of the Emotional DirectionQuestion bank: 0 questions (0 with pictures)
06The first idea (verses 1-4): exile, its motive and its results
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He says helingered at the pretext of hopes, idling away with wishes; they said: "a place of exile will be my cure".
He asks in indignant interrogation: "does the sweetness of its air soften fires?" — and sodistinguishes the healing of the body from the healing of the soul.
The air of Alexandria may heal the body, but he doubts that it heals the fires of the heart.
He describeshis circling through the lands as futile, and as "a sickness upon a sickness": he adds the malady of exile to the malady of separation.
Then he describeshis solitude by repetition: alone in my yearning, alone in my gloom, alone in my toil.
The three-stage ladder
The cause: love (yearning, sabbabah).
The effect: gloom (ka'abah).
The result: toil and exhaustion (ana).
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