Sol 6.1

  1. وتالٍ تلا يوماً فأُنسِيَ آيةً

    فأعيتْ عليه حينَ رامَ انتهازَها

    A reciter recited one day, then was made to forget a verse.

    It eluded him when he sought to grasp it.

  2. فكرَّ على ما قبلها متدبّراً

    فثاب له ذِكْرٌ فأمضى مجازها

    So he returned to what preceded it, pondering.

    Then memory returned to him, and he made his way through it.

  3. فشبهتُهُ بابن السبيل تعرضتْ

    له وَهْدة فاستصعبتْ حين رازها

    So I likened him to a wayfarer: there appeared

    before him a hollow, which proved hard to cross when he tested it.

  4. تقهقر عنها قِيسَ عشرينَ خطوةً

    وجاش إليها جيشةً فأجازها

    He backed away from it a distance of twenty paces,

    and charged toward it in a single rush and cleared it.