وسكر ليس من
السكر بالمستخرج
A sugar—but not one
And a sugar that is not
extracted from sugar,
extracted from sugar,
ولا من القند على
النيران بالمستنتج
nor one from cane sugar, over
nor from lump sugar over
flames refined;
fires produced;
أبيض كالكافور أو
كاللؤلؤ المدحرج
white as camphor, or
white as camphor, or
as a pearl rolled round.
like rounded pearls.
ان نحن شبهناه بال
فانيد قد كان هجي
If we likened it to al-
If we likened it to
fānīdh, we would disparage it.
fānīd sugar candy, it would indeed be belittled.
فلو حلفت أنه
طرزه لم أحرج
Were I to swear that it
And if I swore that it was
was of its kind, I would incur no sin;
of its kind, I would not be at fault;
وان حلفت أنه
طبرزد لم يخرج
and were I to swear that it
and if I swore that it was
was rock sugar, I would not stray from truth.
ṭabarzad rock sugar, it would not fall outside that kind.
يعد في الدواء أح
ياناً مع الاهليلج
It is sometimes counted among medi-
It is counted among medicines, at
cines, together with myrobalan.
times, along with myrobalan.
فهو غذاء يغتذى
وهو شفاء للشجي
Thus it is food on which one feeds,
So it is food to feed upon,
and healing for the sorrow-stricken.
and it is healing for the sorrowful.
ظل من السماء يهوي
فوق نبت العوسج
It keeps falling from the sky
It kept falling from the sky
upon the camelthorn’s growth,
upon the boxthorn plants;
يسقط مثل اللؤلؤ
الرطب على الفيروزج
dropping like pearls,
it falls like pearls,
dew-fresh upon turquoise.
moist, upon turquoise.
Sol 6.1