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The Poem of the Mantle


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مَولَاىَ صَلِّ وَسَلِّمْ دَائِمًا أَبَدًا
ِعَلَى حَبِيبِكَ خَيرِ الْخَلْقِ كُلِّهِم

The (e.g., a 500-word deep dive, a short intro)

Maya gasps. She sees Leo’s reflection in a puddle on screen . He is old again. Dying.

The frame moves. Just a little. Leo breathes. Elara opens her eyes. She looks at the viewer—at us—and nods.

Credits

The English translation is kindly provided by Abu Zahra Foundation. Please consider purchasing a copy of their Burda here.

The audio is taken from the Burda by Ahmed and Yusuf Muzarza'. Listen to it on YouTube here.

The English Singable translation has been kindly provided by Mostafa Azzam. Read the notes to his translation here.

The transliteration of the Burda is based on the Cambridge IJMES transliteration system for Arabic.

Movieshot [2021]

The (e.g., a 500-word deep dive, a short intro)

Maya gasps. She sees Leo’s reflection in a puddle on screen . He is old again. Dying.

The frame moves. Just a little. Leo breathes. Elara opens her eyes. She looks at the viewer—at us—and nods.

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