52. Chronographic Quatrain by the late Mr. Razoki Fatohi 
Azoo, Arabic Instructor, Board of Examiners. 
Communicated by the Hon’BLe Dr. A. SunRAWARDY, PuH.D., 
nent ‘ eeceepsad and SHAMS-UL-ULAMA SHAIKH Maumup 
GILANI 
The following pee is the last work of a man who 
mad ida ranks one of the greatest Arabic scholars of 
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common in the East, but the quatrain under review is an 
example of this art of quite exceptional merit. We glad 
to find that this opinion is shared by Lieut. Dilonal D. C. 
Phillott, Ph.D., Secretary to the Board of Examiners. The 
first quatrain ! of the kind was written by Nasif al- . who 
composed it on the occasion of the accession of H. I. M. Sult 
Abdul Aziz in 1861. But the production of that celebrated 
Nede. scholar can hardly ppproes®, the quatrain of Azoo, as 
in addition to ey pena ads: es, gis swe the merits of 
the famous lines of pereiaies in which the fourteen im- 
peratives are collocate 
de} Che de Us! abit ci di 
w o8¢, Be Bro 
Joe wt ABs (gy he 9} 
Aqil anil aqti‘? thmil ‘alli salli a-‘id 
Zid hashsha bash<sha tafaddal adni surri sili.' 
In spite of all the — in which Azoo’s quatrain 
flow of the 
abounds, the flow rse is natural and the meaning 
quite clear. Take for acanine the introductory Persian line, 
fey bas padge patron of Mutanabbi, to whom these 
addressed, 
lines were charmed with this artful aoiceatioa of 
fourteen imperatives in a » single verse, that an every request. 
Under Pardon he wrote, ‘‘ We pardon thee ’’ ; under Bestow, ‘‘ Let him 
receive such and Dane a sum of money ”’ ; en er Endow, ‘‘ We endow 
hee wi e ate ’’; under Mount, "ee Let such and 
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such a tgp be led to him ”’; ete., ete. 
