1. Since life came to me as it does
With its herald dragging his robe’s tail
١. ومذ أتى الدنيا علي وأتى
بشيره يسØب ذيل الجذل
2. I said, though praising a historian
The joy of my eye is Ali
Ù¢. قلت وإني Ø£Øمد مؤرخاً
قرة عين لي من الدنيا علي