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35 – Muḥammad ibn Aḥmad ibn Muḥammad al-Azdi narrated to me; he said: Ibrāhīm ibn Dāwūd recited to me:
[al-Baḥr al-Mutaqārib]
Do we not see the soul’s cravings perish,
while the weight of the sins they spawned still clings to us?
The one who repents already fears for his own soul—
so what, then, of the state of the man who never repents?
٣٥ - أَنْشَدَنِي مُحَمَّدُ بْنُ أَحْمَدَ بْنِ مُحَمَّدٍ الْأَزْدِيُّ قَالَ: أَنْشَدَنِي إِبْرَاهِيمُ بْنُ دَاوُدَ:
[البحر المتقارب]
أَلَسْنَا نَرَى شَهَوَاتِ النَّفْسِ ... تَفْنَى وَيَبْقَى عَلَيْنَا الذُّنُوبُ
يَخَافُ عَلَى نَفْسِهِ مَنْ يَتُوبُ ... فَكَيْفَ تَرَى حَالَ مَنْ لَا يَتُوبُ