Mukhtasar al-Ma'ani by al-Taftazani, Vol. 1 (مختصر المعاني) — Page 170

Line-by-line translation · المعاني

أَحْوَالُ الْمُسْنَدِ إِلَيْهِ.

The states of the predicate-subject (musnad ilayhi).

وَهَذَا أَخْصَرُ مِنَ الَّذِي أَهْوَاهُ وَنَحْوِ ذَلِكَ، وَالِاخْتِصَارُ مَطْلُوبٌ لِضِيقِ الْمَقَامِ وَفَرْطِ السَّامَةِ؛ لِكَوْنِهِ فِي السِّجْنِ، وَالْحَبِيبُ عَلَى الرَّحِيلِ مَعَ الرَّكْبِ الْيَمَانِينَ مُصْعِدٌ أَيْ شِدَّةُ الْمَلَالِ عَازِمٌ عَلَى الرَّحِيلِ اسْمُ جَمْعٍ لِلرَّاكِبِ مُبْعِدٌ ذَاهِبٌ فِي الْأَرْضِ، وَتَمَامُهُ جَنِيبٌ وَجُثْمَانِي بِمَكَّةَ مُوثَقٌ

This is more concise than 'the one whom I love' and the like, and conciseness is sought due to the constraints of the situation and extreme weariness, because he is in prison, and the beloved is departing with the Yemeni caravan, 'mus'id' (ascending/departing) - meaning extreme boredom - determined to depart, a collective noun for the rider, 'mub'id' (going far) - going away into the land, and its completion is 'janib' (led mount), and my body is in Mecca, bound.

الْجَنِيبُ: الْمَجْنُوبُ الْمُسْتَتْبَعُ، بِكَسْرِ الْعَيْنِ خَبَرٌ لِـ هَوَايَ وَالْجُثْمَانُ الشَّخْصُ، وَالْمُوثَقُ الْمُقَيَّدُ، وَلَفْظُ الْبَيْتِ خَبَرٌ، وَمَعْنَاهُ تَأَسُّفٌ وَتَحَسُّرٌ، أَوْ عَلَى ذَهَابِ الْمَحْبُوبَةِ لِتَضَمُّنِهَا أَيْ لِتَضَمُّنِ الْإِضَافَةِ تَعْظِيمًا لِشَأْنِ الْمُضَافِ إِلَيْهِ أَوِ الْمُضَافِ أَوْ غَيْرِهِمَا، كَقَوْلِكَ فِي الْأَلْطَفِ عَبْدِي عِنْدِي تَعْظِيمُ الْمُضَافِ إِلَيْهِ عَبْدِي حَضَرَ تَعْظِيمًا لَكَ بِأَنَّ لَكَ عَبْدًا، وَفِي تَعْظِيمِ الْمُضَافِ عَبْدُ الْخَلِيفَةِ الَّذِي هُوَ مُسْنَدٌ إِلَيْهِ رَكْبٌ تَعْظِيمًا لِلْعَبْدِ بِأَنَّهُ عَبْدٌ لِلْخَلِيفَةِ، وَفِي تَعْظِيمِ غَيْرِ الْمُضَافِ وَالْمُضَافِ إِلَيْهِ عَبْدُ السُّلْطَانِ عِنْدِي تَعْظِيمًا لِلْمُتَكَلِّمِ بِأَنَّ عَبْدَ السُّلْطَانِ عِنْدَهُ وَهُوَ وَإِنْ كَانَ الْمُضَافُ إِلَيْهِ أَيِ الْمُتَكَلِّمُ يَعْنِي يَاءَ الْمُتَكَلِّمِ لَكِنَّهُ غَيْرُ الْمُسْنَدِ إِلَيْهِ الْمُضَافِ وَغَيْرُ مَا أُضِيفَ إِلَيْهِ الْمُسْنَدُ إِلَيْهِ، وَهَذَا مَعْنَى قَوْلِهِ: أَوْ غَيْرِهِمَا، أَوْ لِتَضَمُّنِهَا تَحْقِيرًا لِلْمُضَافِ نَحْوَ وَلَدُ الْحَجَّامِ حَاضِرٌ، أَوْ لِلْمُضَافِ إِلَيْهِ.

The 'janib' is the led mount that follows; with the kasra on the 'ayn, it is a predicate for 'my love', the 'juthman' is the person, the 'muthaq' is the bound one, and the wording of the verse is a report, and its meaning is regret and sorrow, or [it is] about the departure of the beloved because it [the genitive construction] implies, meaning the genitive construction implies, glorification of the status of the genitive (mudaf ilayhi), or the possessor (mudaf), or others, like your saying in the most subtle [example] 'my slave is with me', glorifying the genitive 'my slave' [by saying] 'my slave has arrived' to glorify you by [the fact] that you have a slave; and in glorifying the possessor, 'the Caliph's slave' - which is a predicate-subject - 'a caravan' [is] to glorify the slave by [the fact] that he is a slave to the Caliph; and in glorifying someone other than the possessor and the genitive, 'the Sultan's slave is with me' to glorify the speaker by [the fact] that the Sultan's slave is with him, and although he is the genitive, meaning the speaker, i.e., the ya of the speaker, he is not the predicate-subject possessor nor what the predicate-subject is added to, and this is the meaning of his saying: 'or others', or because it implies belittling the possessor, such as 'the cupper's son is present', or [belittling] the genitive.

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Vocabulary · المفردات (32 verbs · 85 nouns)

• هَوَى — to love
• صَعِدَ — to ascend
• عَزَمَ — to resolve
• أَحْوَالٌ — conditions
• مُسْنَدٌ — predicate
• أَخْصَرُ — more concise