1. Farhat, companion of my youth,

    and my fellow student from long ago,

  2. and friend of days that passed

    over us, gentler than the breeze,

  3. «

    »، « »

    in the shade of the School of

    Judiciary, and within the shelter of Dar al-Ulum:

  4. ،

    I have striven in speaking of you; a friend may

    go too far for a cherished friend.

  5. I thought your poetry was part of what

    the ancients of Tamim had left behind.

  6. !

    How splendid your poetry is! It

    is Arab to its very core.

  7. ،

    Its weave is neither loose

    to the ear nor feeble.

  8. !

    How splendidly you set your words

    with grace! What wisdom is yours.

  9. You taught the young through evil

    the principles of upright character,

  10. and through it shaped their souls

    to sound taste.

  11. ،

    I swear, the pearl beads

    fashioned into an ordered necklace,

  12. ،

    no, nor the gleaming cup

    of wine in a companion’s hand,

  13. are dearer than a noble

    meaning cast in noble words.

Sol 6