Sol 5.6

  1. How many among us are like Milḥān—a brother worthy of trust—

    or like Ibn ʿAlqama, the martyred one who sold himself to God?

  2. Of true friends, there was one I favored with my undivided devotion;

    he sold one abode, in the dearest of bargains, for the Abode.

  3. True-hearted brothers—I raise their hopes, then let them down;

    I complain to God of my failing those who stand by me.

  4. Thus I became master of a world I do not own,

    while he became master of gardens and rivers.

Sol 5.6