Zuhayr زهير بن أبي سلمى

poet · pre-Islamic Arabia · 520?–609?

A poet who, past eighty, wrote in honour of the men who ended a long war between tribes.

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c. 600

I am weary of the burdens of life. Whoever lives eighty years, believe me, grows weary.

سئمت تكاليف الحياة ، ومن يعش ثمانين حولا لا أبا لك يسأم

The Muallaqa, Divan of Zuhayr

c. 600

I know what today holds, and yesterday before it, but to what tomorrow holds I am blind.

وأعلم ما في اليوم ، والأمس ، قبله ولكنني عن علم ما في غد عم

The Muallaqa, Divan of Zuhayr