يا قوم أذني لبعض الحي عاشقة

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The participants explain that the poet Bashshar ibn Burd was blind and hearing was his primary means of experiencing life. When his heart became attached to a female singer whose voice he heard for the first time, he was compelled to compose this verse, explaining that the ear sometimes falls in love before the eye.

Source: The “Manazil al-Qasid” podcast — Syria TV

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