إن قالَ صفني وصِفْ رفيقي
قلتُ لهُ تاركَ التحابي
If he says, “Describe me, and describe my companion to me,”
I tell him, setting mutual favoritism aside:
أنت حسابٌ بلا عطاءٍ
وَهْوَ عطاءٌ بلا حسابِ
“You are my careful reckoning, without my giving;
and he is my giving, without reckoning.”
Sol 5.6