SUFI POETRY IN SOMALI

(Chris Devlin) #1

205. Don't you know that XDAM



  1. Has another lovely wife

  2. Who is as [beautiful as] you


208. She enters through the [same] door


which you leave the house

269. You should kn~w that she washes him



  1. You must reveal this to your mind:

  2. Break some. [fruit] from the tree


212. And say to him: have some of this food



  1. If he puts it into his mouth

  2. And brings its sweetness into his stomach


215. He will desire you



  1. That, you must know


[The poet resumes his narration]


21'7. When she heard those words


21'8. She went in haste


2l9-2l0. And broke some fruit(220)


From a blossoming tree(2l9)


22i. Then blood flowed from her copiously
222-223. The sound and healthy parts(223)
Of her female progeny(222)
2i4. Thus have acquired their blemish



  1. Due to the bruise inflicted on her
    2i6. She ran [with the fruit] I towards ADAM
    2i7. And she made food out of it


22.8. And she stole his mind from him



  1. And placed (the fruit] into his mouth


81.
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