Konya. The Sunset
On the wooden shelf a bell -
A reminder, "Don't forget!"
Then I uttered, "How shall
I open red?"
"To this stone - vermilion key..."
In return I heard methought.
The key holder, who is he?
- A belated hour's got...
The hour late I went to seek
'Mid the hills remote...
Finally the eve got weak,
Lay on margin to repose...
In the bush an ambush made,
On the mat I sat to spy...
Moving from the west amain
The sunsét is passing by...
From the foliage calling, "Wait!"
I affrighted random cloud;
The súnset with a wonder, "Hey!
A raven or a crow?"
I sprang ás a shadow from
The covert, "Such and such...
I thread the hours upon
A string, the beads to make of value much."
- Sell me, tell me, what the price?
The magic hours I collect!
"I would sell it," answered I,
"For the key of red..."
- Well, I would like you to include
In the range a jetty bead!
And calmly on my palm he put
The bead, - the rosary to complete:
فَلَمَّا انْتَهَيَا إِلَى الصَّخْرَةِ
إِذَا رَجُلٌ مُسَجًّى بِثَوْبٍ
When [Moses and his servant] reached
the rock, they saw a man¹ covered²
with a garment.
Sahih Al-Bukhari
Dervish: May I help you with the task?
Me: When he was exalted thus,
Wizard on the edge he met...
Dervish: "You requested - we have led..."
Said the angel guide.
Me: But why
The Wizard is so clad?
Likewise they cover noble dead...
Dervish: Consecrated to the God,
And at last a semi dot;
Несомненно, что племя готов очень древнее...
На нашем языке их имя истолковывается
"покрытые", и этим указывается храбрость.
Undoubtedly, that the tribe of Goths
is very ancient...
In our language their name is interpreted
"covered", and this denotes the courage.
Isidore of Seville
September 2025
1 Khadir
2 The adjective "covered" - from the verb
سَجَّى - to cover the dead
Sahih Al-Bukhari, The Book on Knowledge
كتاب العلم
Isidore of Seville, History of the Kings of
the Goths, Vandals and Suevi
Памятники средневековой латинской литературы
IV-IX веков: История Готов, Вандалов и Свевов.
Translations from Arabic and Russian
by Denis Bezmelnitsin
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