🔖 | Linguistic Benefit of the Day

What is suwayda' al-qalb?

The Arabs used to say to a person when they advised them about something:

"Place it in your suwayda' al-qalb," meaning in its deepest depths.

Al-Asma'i said:

Al-Suwayda is the diminutive of "sawda'," and it is a black clot within the heart, and if the heart is split open, it appears as if it were a piece of liver.

وإني لأهجُرُ الأمكنةَ كلّها، ولا أبتغي سَكَنًا غير سويدائِكَ.

📚| Al-Bari' fi al-Lugha by Al-Qali, p.699