(w. Religious and metrical exercises.)
(August 28th) On Friday the 2nd of Ẕū’l-ḥijja I began what one is made to read 41 times.[2168]
In these same days I cut up [taqt̤i‘] the following couplet of mine into 504 measures[2169]:—
“Shall I tell of her eye or her brow, her fire or her speech?
Shall I tell of her stature or cheek, of her hair or her waist?”
On this account a treatise[2170] was arranged.
(x. Return of illness.)
Fol. 331.On this day (i.e. 2nd Ẕū’l-ḥijja) I fell ill again; the illness lasted nine days.
(y. Start for Saṃbal.)