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62

دیوان فلک در درس کمال بلاغت ایشان به حجج قاطعه چون خوانندگان حروف هجا عاجز و

of the chancery of heaven, despite decisive proofs, made to seem helpless and deficient in the lesson of the perfection of their eloquence, like pupils reciting the alphabet, so that [he said]: "I am the most eloquent of the Arabs, except that I am from Quraysh"; and also by the tongue of the jewel-studded sword,