Note 119 — NIGHT ADVENTURE OF HARUN AL-RASHID AND THE YOUTH MANJAB.[106]
Richard Francis Burton translation · Edition 2
[The MS. is very indistinct in this place, but by supplying “’an” after “ghibta” and reading “’ayní” for “’anní.” I have no doubt the words are: Wa in ghibta ’an ’ayní fa-má ghibta ’an kalbi = and if thou art absent from my eyes, yet thou art not absent from my heart. The metre is Tawíl and the line has occurred elsewhere in the Nights.—St.]