Sol 6.1

  1. Were it not for my longing for Ali’s lips,

    I would have gone easy on my companions and mounts.

  2. But the overtures from Ali

    Have reached my heart through the veil.

  3. And no close friend is like Umm Hammad,

    When, over a matter too grave for words,

  4. I see her living in ease, and my eye is gladdened;

    And her character spares me the need to reproach her.

Sol 6.1