1. The strangest thing to reach my ears,
that tossed me between corruption and righteousness,
١. وأَغْرَبُ ما مَرَّ في مَسْمَعِي
وأَوقعَني بَينَ غَيٍّ ورُشْدِ
2. was the recitation of a reader who as he read
with a voice and meaning of debauchery and asceticism.
٢. قِرَاءةُ قَارٍ دَعَا إذْ تَلاَ
بِصَوْتٍ ومَعنَى لفسْقٍ وزُهْدِ