أَتَى ابْنُ سُليْمَانٍ وَفِي الْفِكْرِ فَتْرَةٌ

أَتَى ابْنُ سُليْمَانٍ وَفِي الْفِكْرِ فَتْرَةٌ

يُخَبِّرُ أَنَّ الْعَقْلَ جِدُّ مُغَيَّبِ

يُخَبِّرُ أَنَّ الْعَقْلَ جِدُّ مُغَيَّبِ

Ibn Sulayman came while thought was in a lull,

Ibn Sulayman came, his mind grown sluggish,

reporting that reason was a grandfather hidden from sight.

reporting that reason was utterly absent.

فَقُلْتُ أَظُنُّ السَّيِّدَ اعْتَمَّ عِمَّةً

فَقُلْتُ أَظُنُّ السَّيِّدَ اعْتَمَّ عِمَّةً

وَلكِنَّهَا فِي الأَصْلِ مِنْ كُنْيَةِ الأَبِ

وَلكِنَّهَا فِي الأَصْلِ مِنْ كُنْيَةِ الأَبِ

So I said, “I suppose the gentleman has wrapped his head in a paternal aunt”—

So I said: I think the gentleman has donned a turban,

yet she originally comes from the father’s kunya.

but it comes originally from his father's kunya.