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Stop at the abode of my people and ask it

قفا في دار أهلي فاسألاها

1. Stop at the abode of my people and ask it
How does one ask after the manners of a land?

١. قِفَا في دَارَ أَهْلِي فَاسْأَلاَهَا
وكَيْفَ سُؤَالُ أَخْلاَقِ الدِّيَارِ

2. Ruins between sand dunes and dust
Like remnants of revelation in the barren land

٢. دَوَاثِرُ بَيْنَ أَرْمَامٍ وغُبْرٍ
كَبَاقِي الوَحْيِ في البَلَد ِالقِفَارِ

3. Wild cows wander upon it
As fate spun upon the wheel

٣. تَرُودُ ظِبَاءُ آرَامٍ عَلَيْهَا
كَمَا كَرَّ الهِجَانُ عَلَى الدِّوَارِ

4. Daughters of Yasak watch over it
Whose voice is subdued unlike the stallion

٤. تُرَاعِيهَا بَنَاتُ يأَصَكَّ صَعْلٍ
خَفِضٍ صَوْتهُ غَيْرَ العِرَارِ

5. They curved their white tent poles
Towards Harran in summer, hot

٥. لوَى بَيْضَاتِهِ بِنَقَا رُمَاحٍ
إلَى حَرَّانَ بِالأَصْيَافِ هَارِ

6. You know the most wicked of ain's daughters
Is a yearning that brought me behind the curtain

٦. تَعَلمْ أَنَّ شَرَّ بَنَاتِ عَيْنٍ
لَشَوْقٌ عَادَنِي بِقَفَا السِّتَارِ

7. The tallest when canopus was
Its sequence exposed to envy

٧. وأطْوَلُهَا إِذا الجَوْزَاءُ كَانَتْ
تَوَالِيهَا تَعرَّضُ لِلْغَيارِ

8. As if canopus' stars were coats
That bent over fences

٨. كَأَنَّ كَوَاكِبَ الجَوْزَاءِ عُوذٌ
مُعَطَّفَةٌ حَنَتْ عَلَى حُوَارِ

9. A walk not seen off until
Its joining after waiting

٩. كَسِير لاَ يُشَيِّعُهُنَّ حَتَّى
يَحِينَ لحَاقُهُ بَعْدَ انْتِظَارِ

10. I haven’t met since the day of my ancestors
A day like when Hayy tribe of Dithar appeared

١٠. ومَا لاَقَيْتُ مِنْ يَوْمَيْ جَدُودٍ
كَيَوْمِ أَجِدَّ حَيُّ بَنِي دِثَارِ

11. Honor became great honor when they appeared
And I remained in the session proudly

١١. غَدَا العِزُّ العَزِيزُ غَدَاةَ بَانُوا
وأَبْقَى في المَقَامَةِ وافْتِخَارِي

12. My ease when the tribe's
Tents were stripped by the sprouting thorn

١٢. وأَيْسَارِي إِذَا مَا الحَيُّ حَلَّتْ
بُيُوتُهُمُ بِكَادِي النَّبْتِ عَارِي

13. The young ladies of Taibah left
And best farewells upon settle

١٣. غَدَتْ أَظْعَانُ طَيْبَةَ لَمْ تُوَدِّعْ
وخَيْرُ وَدَاعِهِنَّ عَلَى قَرَارِ

14. They fulfilled pacts as repayed
Is a borrowed tool from the lender

١٤. وأَدَّيْنَ العُهُودَ كَمَا تُؤَدَّى
أَدَاةُ المُسْتَعَارِ مِنَ المُعَارِ

15. There flashed with skillful pony from it
In your eye a glance from a fire's light

١٥. ولاَحَ بِبُرْقَةِ الأَمْهَارِ مِنْهَا
بِعَيْنِكِ نَازِحٌ مِنْ ضَوْءِ نَارِ

16. When I say it wags its wand
Wand of lute and chords of bracelet

١٦. إِذَا مَا قُلْتُ زَهَّتْهَا عِصيُّ
عِصيُّ الرَّنْدِ والعُصُفُ السِّوَارِي

17. For a longing one, firewood claps him
Like Magi's fire in sparked coal

١٧. لِمُشْتَاقٍ يُصَفِّقُهُ وَقُودٌ
كَنَارِ مَجُوسَ في الأَجَمِ المُطَارِ

18. They rode spirited, smooth-gaited horses
Lighting their night to daybreak

١٨. رَكِبْنَ جَهَامَةً بِحَزِيزِ فَيْدٍ
يُضِئْنَ بِلَيْلِهِنَّ إِلى النَّهَارِ

19. They made skulls of warqa behind
With my occident, the curtain

١٩. جَعَلْنَ جَمَاجِمَ الوَرْكاءِ خَلْفاً
بِغَرْبِيِّ القَعَاقِعِ فَالسِّتَارِ

20. As if they are wild cows of tarj
Baring from its wrap the tent

٢٠. وهُنَّ كَأَنَّهُنَّ ظِبَاءُ تَرْجٍ
تَكَشَّفُ مِنْ سَوَالِفَهَا الصَّوَارِي

21. Upon bare wrap remaining
Honor's mark clear carpentry

٢١. عَلَى جُرْدِ السَّوَالِفِ بَاقِيَاتٍ
كِرَامِ الوَشْمِ وَاضِحَةِ النِّجَارِ

22. I say and they supported a gazelle's horn
With what declining cliff do you compete?

٢٢. أَقُولُ وقَدْ سَنَدْنَ لِقَرْنِ ظَبْيٍ
بِأَيِّ مِرَاءِ مُنْحَدَرٍ تُمَارِي

23. I'm not as he says, if not
Your abode meets mine in Damascus

٢٣. فَلَسْتُ كَمَا يَقُولُ إِنَّ لَمْ
تُجَامِعْ دَارَكُمْ بِدِمَشْقَ دَارِي