جملة أمري أني ركبت الى

جملة أمري أني ركبت الى

دارك لما اتيتها الخطرا

دارك لما اتيتها الخطرا

The whole of my tale is that I rode toward

In short, my story is that I rode to

My legs took me to your house

your house; reaching it meant courting danger.

your house, braving danger when I came there.

When danger approached it

لبست دراعتي وعمتي ال

لبست دراعتي وعمتي ال

خز فصارا كما ترى حبرا

خز فصارا كما ترى حبرا

I put on my tunic and my turban of

I wore my tunic and my turban of

I wore my armor and robe

silk, and both became, as you see, mottled cloth.

silk; as you see, both became striped cloth.

They became, as you see, ink

أصبحت في الطين عقعقاً بلقاً

أصبحت في الطين عقعقاً بلقاً

وإن تعريت خلتني نمرا

وإن تعريت خلتني نمرا

In the mud I became a pied magpie;

In the mud I became a piebald magpie;

I became in the mud a quack, muddy

and if I stripped bare, you would take me for a leopard.

and if I stripped, you would think me a leopard.

And if you undress me, you leave me a tiger