Arabic → English transcript

The house of Miss Ghadid is adorned with her necklace or with the

eyes of her companions on the night of merrymaking.

He accepted coldness and I was met with coldness with the acceptance

of one who has no power over this, for in your love it was decreed— Dhad.— Dhad.

I hastened toward her throat, and she said,“ O Uday,

the moments have protected you”— Qaf.— Qaf. Let us stop and weep over the

memory of a beloved and a dwelling at Sact al- Liwa between ad- Dukhul and Hawmal.

For every tear that flowed from my eyes there is a cause,

and how can the tear of a sorrowful eye be restrained?

Suad departed, and my heart today is lovesick, infatuated with her,

never cured, bound in fetters.

By God, well done, O people of Darkum,

may the two servants never cease until they are killed.

Do not say,“ We are the people of Taha,” do not say,“ We are the people of Taha,”

that alone is enough pride for us, and it will not…

We suffer from dryness

We closed up and did not drink a drop of wine,

but tales of love are themselves the wine.

A plump, delicate one,

as if her saliva were fragrant scent with which the

drinking friend mixes her pure water. By your life, days are nothing but on loan,

so take of their kindness whatever you can. Leave noble virtues,

do not travel seeking them, and sit, for you are the one who eats and is clothed.

سين. My people will remember me when their effort becomes serious,

And on the dark night, the full moon is missed.

Many a grave has become a grave many times over,

laughing at how opposites crowd together.

- Dal.- Dal. Let the days do as they wish,

and heal your soul when fate has passed its judgment.

You tell me to be patient though my nature prevails,

and you are amazed at my state, while yours amazes me even more.

Ba.

Mim. Charging, retreating, advancing, turning back together,

like a massive rock a torrent cast down from on high.

Do not think that money His Lord benefits him if the tribes do not praise

his villages. Reem, on the valley between the trees and the flag,

made the shedding of my blood permissible in the sacred months;

the death of a young man in glory is better.

than to spend the night captive to a dark- eyed beauty Nūn.

Everything, when perfected,

declines, so let no human be deceived by the sweetness of life.

Drowsy eyes awakened desire.

With glances to which white and brown blades alike submit in slaughter.

Rāʼ. She saw my condition from where its place was hidden,

so it was the mote in her eyes until it was dispelled. Tāʼ.

Cares and modesty piled up a field when the graceful one appeared,

and the full, soft wrist. Nūn. We are the sons of kings, and fortune has descended,

there is no harm in death when

the appointed time has come.

Lām. Lām. There is no shame in my manners if I do not attain high ranks,

rather the shame is in my era and in my country. Dāl. Dāl. Deir Yassin,

we have not forgotten, our blood in our hills, trampled by… The looks are tāʼ.

A phantom of Samira returned as a visitor,

and a phantom is only what thoughts show you.

Rāʼ.

And what decree, in the eyes of a gazelle, made a lion?

O you who dwell in the depth,

draw near to the most beautiful dweller— lām.— lām.

— Mīm.— Mīm. Radiant, as if the pebbles in it, when water mixes with it,

were generous.