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FWP:
SSA reads z̤āhir bāt̤in rather than the kulliyat's z̤āhir-o-bāt̤in . I have omitted a brief passage in which SRF discusses the effect of the omission of the connective v from z̤āhir bāt̤in .
Note for meter fans: Mir has taken āp hī and written it as the single word āphī . He's scanned that word as aa-phii , long-short. In other words, phī has been treated as a flexible syllable, like bhī -- even though here the p-h sequence is not an aspirated consonant like the bh. Another way to think of it is that the h has dropped out of the scansion. This is uncomfortable-sounding to us meter fans, but also a well-established and permissible variation.