ألَمْ تَرَ أنّ تكرارَ اللّيالي
يُفِيْدُ المرْءَ عِلْماً واخْتِبَارا
Have you not seen that the recurrence of nights
gives a person knowledge and experience,
ويُصْقِلُ جَوْهَرَ الأَلْبَابِ حَتّى
يصيرُ صُفْرَ معدِنِها نُضَارا
and polishes the substance of minds until
it turns the brass of their ore into pure gold?
فمِثْلُ ذَاكَ تَسْتَدْلِلْ عَلَيْهِ
بِلَيْلِ الشّعْرِ يَجْعَلُهُ نَهَارَا
So you may find evidence of the same
in the night of hair, which it turns into day.
Sol 6.1