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Iraqi
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Hamzah’s sha’ir derived its original or primary influence not from the ruba’i, but from the four-line shi’r of Ibnu’l-Arabi and ‘Iraqi which forms the bulk of quotations of Sufi poetry in his works.
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― The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir
― The Origin of the Malay Sha'ir
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And I withdrew into myself when I understood that they wanted to extract every thought in my head, one by one, like decayed teeth.
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