Abu Dhuayb al Hudhali

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A poet and a knight. The ancient Arabic references say that the poet Hassan ibn Thabit, also included in this selection, described him as “the most important poet of his time”. His language is eloquent and his poetry full of realistic scenes and sensual, concrete images. The beloved in his amatory poems is a vital presence and usually has something to say in the poem. The ancient sources describe him as a brave knight, and a handsome man and sensitive lover. Amongst the most beautiful and famous of his long poems is an elegy for his five sons who died from the plague, and a love poem from which the extract in this selection is taken.)

The Best Poem Of Abu Dhuayb al Hudhali

Your Speech

Your speech, when you give generously,
Is the bees' harvest in the milk of a mother-camel:
"By my life, you are the home whose people I honour
And I sit in its shades, in the late afternoon".
The white honey—whose drone shelters
In eaves which defied whoever climbs and descends—
Is not more pleasant than her mouth, nor more delicious
If I come at night, when the dogs of the low valleys sleep.

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