A spear that chops limbs,
half-blackened from its formidable iron shaft,
that, when it is shot at you, flails frightfully through the air –
My horse saves me from these dangers.
I wonder: is this horse of the kind of nobility as possessed by a holyman,
Who is versed in the Holy Rites,
And when you have sacrificed a lamb in his honour,
He reads you a sublime revelation from the Qur’an,
And showers you with holy scriptures.
Raage Ugaas (19th century) Somalia
Translated by Said Sheikh Samata
Source: Somalispot
half-blackened from its formidable iron shaft,
that, when it is shot at you, flails frightfully through the air –
My horse saves me from these dangers.
I wonder: is this horse of the kind of nobility as possessed by a holyman,
Who is versed in the Holy Rites,
And when you have sacrificed a lamb in his honour,
He reads you a sublime revelation from the Qur’an,
And showers you with holy scriptures.
Raage Ugaas (19th century) Somalia
Translated by Said Sheikh Samata
Source: Somalispot
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