Sol 5.6

  1. How sweet to drink the wine in seclusion!

    Pour me a drink, my boon companion, from the goblets.

  2. It is a wine we are forbidden to forsake;

    there is neither sin nor cause for doubt in it.

  3. It was aged in wine jars before Adam;

    its source is pure, from among all pure things.

  4. Give me your ruling, O jurist, and tell me:

    May it be drunk at Arafat?

  5. May one perform the circumambulation and ritual course with it,

    and chant the pilgrim’s call and enter consecration with wines?

  6. Or are Qur’an recitation and remembrance of God permitted with it?

    Or is glorification of God permitted during the prayers?

  7. The jurist replied: If it is wine

    made from grapes, with something intoxicating in it,

  8. then drinking it, in our view, is certainly forbidden;

    moreover, there is an element of doubt in it.

  9. Ah, O jurist, if you tasted of it

    and heard the melodies in seclusion,

  10. you would leave the world and all that occupies you,

    and live love-lost until the day of death.

Sol 5.6