Poems
- إذا لم يكن للقوم إلا رغيدةIf the people have nothing but milk-and-flour porridge,
- إن تأت عبس وتنصرها عشيرتهاIf ʿAbs comes and its clan supports it,
- رآني على ما بي عميلة فاشتكىUmaylah saw me in my plight and complained
- فإما تريني واحدا باد أهلهSo if you see me a lone man whose kin have perished,
- فقلت لشوال توق ذبابهSo I said to Shawwāl, “Beware his sword’s point,
- وأعوج من آل الصريح كأنهAnd Aʿwaj, of al-Ṣarīḥ’s line, as though he were
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