1. One asked me, and those like me,
“Why does he, in such fashion, quote it?”
١. وَسَائلٍ قَالَ لي وَمِثلي
يَرْجِعُ في مِثلِ ذا لِنَقْلِه
2. I said: “Poetry is forbidden, so that
It not be thrust on those unlike its rightful people.”
٢. لِمْ حُرِّمَ الشِعْرُ قلتُ حتى
يُقَادَ قَسْراً لِغَيْرِ أَهْلِه