1. I pose this riddle to every keen and discerning mind:

    What is the name of a woman among the children of Jacob,

  2. graced with saintly wonders? Visit her as an act of devotion,

    for the one visited by her is worthier of being drawn near.

  3. Another female shares her name and has never ceased

    guarding her veiled secret.

  4. And from the gracious Seal of Revelation there has been transmitted

    a hadith concerning her that is no fabrication.

  5. And if its fāʾ is altered through scribal mispointing,

    it becomes modesty’s hue—not the rain poured down.

  6. So there you have her, with her secrets made plain:

    her matter is nearer than near.

Sol 5.6