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And finally you returned in abjectness
And failed in your vengeance and gained no victory!
Midwives say that Hind gave birth to a bastard son.
(42)
Other poems have been composed with a different rhyme
on this subject, and they are quoted in his poetical
work as follows:
'Whose is this child who has fallen on a corner of the
earth in the land of al-Batha'?
A child who is abandoned without a cradle in the dust?
A young beautiful and free woman gave birth to him.
She went wailing to her lover, as-Sabbah.
o Hind! How enraged you are!
A respectable woman who used the best perfume of India
to make herself sweet-smelling!
How like his mother is this child!
But the likeness to a black father with curly hair;
as-Sabbah is much greater.
That vile woman showed unruliness,
For, rebellion was a constant habit with her,
As well as taking a bone between her teeth and biting
it. (43)
In another biting and satirical poem, Hisham describes
Hind in the following manner:
'Whose are those children that have fallen in the desert,
Rubbing their feet on the desert of Ajyad?
Fangs of labor overcame her,
And then she gave birth to her child,
While she had no midwife,
But beasts of the wild and jinn of the desert!
Among the abandoned babies fallen in the desert
There is one whose mother is of high lineage.
That woman said weekly in her travail:
O, that I had been a camel-driver,
And would not be involved with this condition!
They abandoned this child in the dust and went away,
While that woman's father and uncle
Were the Sheikhs and chiefs of the tribe.(44)
Ibn Hisham, the well-known biographer, quotes about
thirty and a few more odes from the Muslims and infidels
about the battle of Uhud in which the savage acts of
Hind and Abu Sufyan are recorded.(45)
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