The Commentary of Al-Qasidah — Page 90
90 The commentary of al-Qa si dah $ O E< M Y* b 7 E n$o "-* " p /Y /9 . /): 7 B"< q YL I YL "- & Z \B/ !X*q _/ Y * B "-"2= rL YN L"5 /, :EO 1B s<s< <tu "- - " O my love, you have no idea as to how many pleasant nights I have spent among my friends in which we had great times of drinking. How many times I came to the tavern and we set out drinking and we drank so much that they were running out of it. I always bid the highest on the old whiskey in an antique bottle or wine from a big pot of which the seal has just been broken. I have been enchanted so many times by the clean and pure wine in the morning and the music and the sound of the strings played by a young woman. ( Shar h ul-Mu‘allaq a til-‘Ashri, Mu‘allaqah Lab i d bin Rab i ‘ah, p. 102–103, D a ru I h y a ’it-Tur a thil-‘Arabiyy) In the same manner, another poet, T urfah bin ‘Abdil-Bakar i , writes in his poetry: