I passed by the houses, the houses of Laylā
Amurru ʕāla d-diyāri diyāri laylā
نوع الشعر: فطعة
الشاعر: قيس بن الملوح
منطقته: نجد
عصر: أموي
أَمُرُّ عَلى الدِيارِ دِيارِ لَيلى
أُقَبِّلَ ذا الجِدارَ وَذا الجِدارا
وَما حُبُّ الدِيارِ شَغَفنَ قَلبي
وَلَكِن حُبُّ مَن سَكَنَ الدِيارا
Type of poem: Qiṭʕah
Name of poet: Qays b. al-Mulawwaḥ
Region of poet: Najd
Era: Umayyad
I passed by the houses[1], the houses of Laylā[2]
I kissed this wall and I kissed that wall
but it is not love of the houses that has enamoured my heart
but love of those that dwell within
[1] or alternatively: tents
[2] Laylā of the tribe b. ʕāmir just as the poet, Qays b. al-Mulawwaḥ, known as "Majnūn" as in "crazy"
originating in his unfulfilled love for the former rendered beyond reach by, essentially, tribal
politics, both from the eponymous old traditional narrative known as "Layla and Majnun" of tremendous
popularity from the Maghrib to the Indian subcontinent and beyond, in great part also thanks to the
Persian poet Niẓāmī Ganjavī and equally so of great importance in Ṣūfi poetry
