Guembri

Shorfa — green and white

Ammara Douya 'Abdallah (Fill the inkwell, 'Abdallah)

Khder Chorfa (Green) suite — invocation of the Prophet and his direct descendants (the Chorfa).

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Lyrics(1 variant)

Original (العربية) · transliteration · English

  1. Variant 1

    Al Sur — Maîtres du Guembri Vol. IV (Baldassarre liner notes, 1996)

    Baldassarre, Antonio — liner-note translations; M’allem Sam & M’allem Hmidah (performance)

    Medium confidence

    The Al Sur booklet prints French and English translations only; the Arabic original is not provided and needs maâlem confirmation. The Casablanca (Mersaoui) school's Tréq Beidaoui — the seven-station path centred on Bel Byad — frames this song in its suite cycle. See `bibliography.ts` entry `baldassarre-alsur-vol4`.

    1. Verse

      • Man of God, 'Abdallah

      • Fill the inkwell

      • Shelter me, 'Abdallah

      • I want to be God's guest

      • My heart is sad

      • I ask the Prophet's help

      • My shoes have holes

      • I am becoming a Bou Derbala

        — Bou Derbala — 'the patched-clothes one' — a Sufi figure of voluntary poverty.

    Lines untranslated in Englishare shown with a “translation pending” placeholder. Other locales available: Français, العربية.

Phase 1 catalog — variants pulled from public sources for comparison; pending maâlem verification.