يصدُّ الفَضلُ عَنّا أَيَّ صَدٍّ
وَقالَ تَأُخّري عَن ضُعفِ معدَه
Faḍl—Bounty—rebuffs us: what a rebuff!
He said, “My delay is due to the weakness of the one preparing it.”
فَقُلتُ لَهُ جعلت العينَ واواً
فَاِن الضعفَ أَجمَع في المودَّه
I said to him, “You have turned the ʿayn into a wāw—
for all the weakness lies in the prolongation.”
Sol 5.6