Annals of the early Caliphate from the death of Mahomet to the Omeyyad and Abbaside dynasties A.H. XI-LXI (A.D. 632-680) from original sources

Note 411 — Chapter XXVII · THE LATER YEARS OF OMAR’S REIGN—DOMESTIC EVENTS. A.H. XVII.-XXIII. A.D. 638–644.

Reading edition

Take, for example, two lines with the play on the name Leila, or night—

I thought of Leila, but the heavens are between us; Neither is her night (Leila) mine; nor my night hers.