خلاصه ماشینی:
Both were great horsemen and raiders and Sakhr combined in his character, as is shown by al-Khansa's realistic poetry, ail that was noble and desirable from the view-point of a pagan Arab and almost all that will always remain the ideal of good and moral human beings in all lands and ages.
· When invited to satirise the murderers of his elder brother, Mu'awiyah, who had lost his life, some ten years prior to the Hijrah, to the spear assault of a Murrid against whose tribe the former had led a raid, he replied : "The situation is far more serious than could be met by a satire, and had I not hated obscenity, I would have I.
" 1 Her poems are descriptive - descriptive of Sakhr's deeds and disposi• tion in peace and his bravery and exploits and dash during his raids on enemies; but the descriptions are not panegyrical, they are invariably colour• ed by a deep sadness of tone and expression.
Every poem begins in a storm of grief, stirred up in her mind by the sense of some loss to her, her family, her tribe or men at large- orphans, widows, the needy, the affiicted or by the consciousness of some associations of time or place or occasion, connected with the good deeds of Sakhr and the storm assuming the form of words and images, rushes on until all or most of the virtues of the hero are depicted in a vivid, vigorous and spontaneous diction.