1. في مُقبِلِ الأَمرِ تَشبيهٌ وَمُدبِرُهُ

    كَأَنَّما فيهِ بِاللَيلِ المَصابيحُ

    In the affair’s beginning and its end there is a likeness—

    as though lamps were shining within it by night.