Sirat Ibn Hisham 1472
The time of the ʿumrah
فَيَالَهَا خُلَّةً لَوْ أَنَّهَا صَدَقَتْ بِوَعْدِهَا أَوْ لَوَ انَّ النَّصْحَ مَقْبُولُ لَكِنَّهَا خُلَّةٌ قَدْ سِيطَ مِنْ دَمِهَا فَجْعٌ وَوَلْغٌ وَإِخْلَافٌ وَتَبْدِيلُ فَمَا تَدُومُ عَلَى حَالٍ تَكُونُ بِهَا كَمَا تَلَوَّنُ فِي أَثْوَابِهَا الْغُولُ وَمَا تَمَسَّكُ بِالْعَهْدِ الَّذِي زَعَمَتْ إلَّا كَمَا يُمْسِكُ الْمَاءَ الْغَرَابِيلُ فَلَا يَغُرَّنْكَ مَا مَنَّتْ وَمَا وَعَدَتْ إنَّ الْأَمَانِيَّ وَالْأَحْلَامَ تَضْلِيلُ كَانَتْ مَوَاعِيدُ عُرْقُوبٍ لَهَا مَثَلًا وَمَا مَوَاعِيدُهَا إلَّا الْأَبَاطِيلُ أَرْجُو وَآمُلُ أَنْ تَدْنُو مَوَدَّتُهَا وَمَا إخَالُ لَدَيْنَا مِنْكِ تَنْوِيلُ أَمْسَتْ سُعَادُ بِأَرْضٍ لَا يُبَلِّغُهَا إلَّا الْعِتَاقُ النَّجِيبَاتُ الْمَرَاسِيلُ وَلَنْ يُبَلِّغَهَا إلَّا عُذَافِرَةٌ لَهَا عَلَى الْأَيْنِ إرْقَالٌ وَتَبْغِيلُ مِنْ كُلِّ نَضَّاخَةِ الذِّفْرَى إذَا عَرِقَتْ عُرْضَتُهَا طَامِسُ الْأَعْلَامِ مَجْهُولُ تَرْمِي الْغُيُوبَ بِعَيْنَيْ مُفْرِدٍ لَهَقٍ إذَا تَوَقَّدَتْ الْحِزَّانُ وَالْمِيلُ ضَخْمٌ مُقَلَّدُهَا فَعْمٌ مُقَيَّدُهَا فِي خَلْقِهَا عَنْ بَنَاتِ الْفَحْلِ تَفْضِيلُ غَلْبَاءُ وَجْنَاءُ عُلْكُومٌ مُذَكَّرَةٌ فِي دَفِّهَا سَعَةٌ قُدَّامُهَا مِيلُ وَجِلْدُهَا مِنْ أُطُومٍ مَا يُؤَيِّسُهُ طِلْحٌ بِضَاحِيَةِ الْمَتْنَيْنِ مَهْزُولُ حَرْفٌ أَخُوهَا أَبُوهَا مِنْ مُهَجَّنَةٍ وَعَمُّهَا خَالُهَا قَوْدَاءُ شِمْلِيلُ يَمْشِي الْقُرَادُ عَلَيْهَا ثُمَّ يُزْلِقُهُ مِنْهَا لَبَانٌ وَأَقْرَابٌ زَهَالِيلُ عَيْرَانَةٌ قُذِفَتْ بِالنَّحْضِ عَنْ عُرُضٍ مِرْفَقُهَا عَنْ بَنَاتِ الزَّوْرِ مَفْتُولُ كَأَنَّمَا فَاتَ عَيْنَيْهَا وَمَذْبَحَهَا مِنْ خَطْمِهَا وَمِنْ اللَّحْيَيْنِ بِرْطِيلُ تَمُرُّ مِثْلَ عَسِيبِ النَّخْلِ ذَا خُصَلٍ فِي غَارِزٍ لَمْ تَخَوَّنْهُ الْأَحَالِيلُ قَنْوَاءُ فِي حُرَّتَيْهَا لِلْبَصِيرِ بِهَا عِتْقٌ مُبِينٌ وَفِي الْخَدَّيْنِ تَسْهِيلُ تَخْدِي عَلَى يَسَرَاتٍ وَهْيَ لَاحِقَةٌ ذَوَابِلٍ مَسُّهُنَّ الْأَرْضَ تَحْلِيلُ سُمْرِ الْعُجَايَاتِ يَتْرُكْنَ الْحَصَى زِيَمًا لَمْ يَقِهِنَّ رُءُوسَ الْأُكْمِ تَنْعِيلُ كَأَنَّ أَوْبَ ذِرَاعَيْهَا وَقَدْ عَرِقَتْ وَقَدْ تَلَفَّعَ بِالْقُورِ الْعَسَاقِيلُ
Translation
✧ Ah, what a friendship—if only it were true to its promise, or if sincere counsel were accepted! But it is a friendship in which loss and greed and breaking of promises and alteration have been mixed from its blood. It does not remain in any state it may be in, just as the ghoul changes in her garments. And it does not hold to the covenant it claimed, except as sieves hold water. Let not what she has made you wish for and what she has promised deceive you; for wishes and dreams are misleading. The promises of ʿUrqūb became a proverb for her, and her promises are nothing but falsehoods. I hope and expect that her affection may draw near, but I do not think that any grant from you will be given to us. Suʿād has come to be in a land which none can reach except noble, swift, long-striding she-camels. And none will reach it except a strong, sturdy one that has, in the time of fatigue, a brisk pace and a short-stepped amble—one of those whose neck veins throb when they sweat; their sides are unknown, effacing the waymarks. She casts her glance at the unseen with the eyes of a solitary, keen-sighted bull when the stony tracts and the sandhills blaze. Large is her neck-ring, plump is her fetter; in her nature there is a preference over the daughters of the stallion. Thick-necked, curved-cheeked, huge, mannish; in her side there is breadth; her fore part is a mile. Her skin is from an aṭūm bull, which nothing makes despair; lean are her two sides in the open sun. She is a lean, hardy one; her brother and her father are from a noble breed, and her paternal uncle and maternal uncle is a long-necked, swift she-camel. The tick walks upon her and then slips off because of her smooth breast and swift flanks. She is a long, strong one, cast with flesh over breadth; her elbow is twisted away from the daughters of the breast-bone. It is as though a chisel had passed over her eyes and her throat, from her muzzle and from her two jaws. She passes like the spadix of a palm, having tufts, in a root which the milk-veins have not betrayed. She is curved-nosed; in her two free cheeks there is, for the one who sees her, manifest nobility, and in her cheeks a smoothness. She trots along on swift, lean legs, their touch of the ground being light. They are tawny in the sinews; they leave the pebbles in groups, no tips of hillocks have protected them with sandals. It is as if the return of her forearms, when she has sweated and the hillocks are wrapped in white mirages...
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