for your age

For your age I don't understand Sahih in loyalty and in steadfastness When the honorable were called to endeavors The son of Abraham slackened And Ibn Tuma sits in an evil house. Of the Nabataeans, unable to stand That basmine was smoked…

for your life that never crosses between us War with the Romans we wrestle them to death without their daughters gallant angry lion So my eyes did not see what their daughters demanded. our loot So we killed its men with swords sue us for…

For your life, I left Najd - the poet Al-Sharif Al-Murtada For your age, I left Najda And my heart is held hostage And what is after the sect of the people of Najd? villages but wailing or groaning And an eye that…