Maymun Ibn Qays Al a'sha

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Maymun Ibn Qays Al a'sha Biography

Al-A'sha (Arabic: اَلأَعْشَى) or Maymun Ibn Qays Al-a'sha (d.c. 570– 625) was an Arabic Jahiliyyah poet from Riyadh, Najd. He traveled through Mesopotamia, Syria, Arabia and Ethiopia. He was nicknamed Al-A'sha which means "weak-sighted"[1] or "night-blind" after he lost his sight. He continued to travel even after becoming blind, particularly along the western coast of the Arabian peninsula. It was then that he turned to the writing of panegyrics as a means of support. His style, reliant on sound effects and full-bodied foreign words, tends to be artificial. One of his qasidah or odes is sometimes included in the Mu'allaqat, an early Arabic poetry collection done by the critic Abu 'Ubaydah.)

The Best Poem Of Maymun Ibn Qays Al a'sha

In The Quarter

In the quarter are those who like us to meet and long for it,
And others who showed enmity and are angry.
If I forget some things, I don't forget her saying
"Perhaps distance after parting will be close"
Nor do I forget a smooth cheek tears shedding over it
Fingertips, tinted like the fringe of damask
Nor a glass of wine like the cockerel's eye, whose sharpness I took early
With faithful friends, while bells were ringing.

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