Road Trip- Part 4 - The Car

Tuesday 20th March 2007


we left Cairo at 9 pm , a quick check up on the car said that everything is good to go , we planed to go non stop until Darnah or Albayda in Libya so stops were only for gas filling , we choose to leave at night so we can arrive in Libya when the sun rises and it would be easir to drive in the one line roads we have in Libya which is quite dangerous at night , but in Egypt they have highways until Alsaloom.

we took the tip from one of the Libyan guys we met in Cairo and took the desert road until the exit of Al alameen instead of finishing it all the way until Alexandria ,it was much better and few kilometers shorter , everything was great until we were about to reach the end of the highway to Al alameen .

A red sign flashed on the dashboard , the cars heat sign , the temperature was normal though , we stopped and checked the manual of the car , the sign meant the car needs water for the radiator , we checked the water and it was not fully empty so we decided to go at least until the nearest gas station to check it out , this nearest gas station was more than 50 km away, there we found a mechanic who didn't add much to the known fact that the car needs water, we filled the radiator with water but there was a leak because we could see that the water we filled was running under our feet , where is the leaking point we couldn't find it and the mechanic came with magical idea after trying everything t find the source of leakage , he gave us this powder that you mix with the water and it closes any leak , we had no choice but to use this magical powder at least till we get to the big gas station he told us about few kilometers from here .




There was no big gas station for more than 20 kilometers but the car was ok , the sign didn't appear again the leaking stopped and the temperature is great , so even wen we stopped at this big gas station the mechanic there said everything is cool it's gonna get you to the borders smoothly no worries , I remember seeing the sign saying Alsaloom after 200 km at 2 am that night just before the water signal appeared again and the temperature started to rise , we had two gallons of water with us just in case this happens and we used them both , we go few hundreds of meters then stop just when the temperature rise again to let the car cool , cars barely passed by and when a car passes it makes me hold my shirt tight so it wont fly from the wind of the car made while speeding, we were stuck there in the darkness of night, ther was nothing to do even we passed by a gas station and he said he can't do anything to us so just keep trying cooling the car when the temperature rises and then until you get to the borders, so thats what we did and one of the times zikweeni added the water and closed the radiator immediately and I told him no and opened it immediately and boom the hot steaming water exploded on my hand and I got a lovely nice burn on my arm , It was burning me inside and I couldn't do anything about it but just hold my arm feeling the extreme pain and watch the bubbles grow on my burned arm , the pain was unbearable , we tried to stop cars again but no one bothered to even slow down, I used the tomato past we had with us for making mbakbka , I used it on my burned hand to cool the heat I was feeling and believe me when I put it it gets hot so quick and I had to remove it , I used the wet napkins we had but they get dry when I put them , it was that bad and I didn't know what to do to make the heat and the burning sensation to go , Zikweeni was driving for the first time since we got in Egypt (I'll tell you later on why he doesn't drive in egypt) , I sat next to him leaving my arm hanging from the window so the cold wind hit it while the car was moving but my fingers started to get numb , then I used tooth paste creast complete 7 which they should make it complete 8 and add the burn cooler effect , it really did a great job at least it let me sleep for I don't know for how long but I woke up with zikweeni filling the car with water again and as I saw the sun was already rising I asked him are we there yet , he shrug and said I don't even know how much we have left , we both laughed so hard on this .



It took us forever to pass those 200 kilometers , and the car was faithful with us until she got us to the entrance of Alsaloom , just at the spot where we can see the police check point before entering Alsaloom the car stopped , again with a huge laugh from both of us we knew it's not gonna move any further from here , and with us both not knowing anything about cars mechanic we didn't know what to do so the best thing is to try to get to that police check point cos it seems like my thumb isn't attractive enough for the cars passing by to stop , I can't say for sure it was two kilometer or more the distance we pushed the car but I really lost sense of everything then the time ,the hunger ,the self cleanness , the sun was burning hot and it was right on top of us , at the police check point we asked them for help and I want to thank them here because they stopped a car for me to give me a lift till the center of Alsaloom , I jump in the back of a truck with the bags of sh3eer , at Alsaloom city center which was formed of almost 100 flat old houses and shops , a gas station and one mechanic , he asked me one question before i explained what happened , whats your car and he said one thing only after I told him it's golf , sorry I don't know hwo to deal with these cars , so jumping again on the back of another car in the gas station but this time with couple of kids and an old woman I returned back to Zikweeni , we have to pull the car at least until the gas station down town ,we waited for a while to find someone who accept pulling us , it's great being at the police check point because people have no other choice than stopping and listening to us , now I insisted on the mechanic to hear the whole story and take a look at the car when we got in front of his place , he offered to help us find some car to pull us up the mountain to reach the borders , again I don't know for how long we walked in Asaloom looking for a trunk to pull us , couple of them refused becasue their car is quite weak for the job others wanted take advantage of this and get as much money as they can from us , in the end we found our guy who was fair enough to pull it just for 120 LE , just pull the car up the mountain less than 5 km , I forgot to mention that the car's breaks doesnt work when t's not turned on because they are built like this , so here I am holding the wheel with one hand and the other holding the hand breaks witht , zikweeni next to me holding tight on his seat belt , the truck started pulling us , I kept telling Zikweeni take my phone capture this moment , and as he always been he was scared and Yelled at me Wagtah toa hada wagtah ash'hado an la ilah ila allah wa ash'hado an mo7amdan rasool allah, I was scared too because who knows what if the robe get loose and I can't stop the car from falling backwards , but it was quite fun the feeling of being so heavy as the truck was pulling us up and on the turns when I use the hand break to slow down I was feeling like at any minute there will be a strong pull from the truck while I am rising the hand break and thats it the robe will be cut , I never was nervous doing something in my life like this because if you ever go to the place I am talking about you will understand what I mean .

we let out screams of joy when arrived at the top , it was a hell of short scary trip much more fun than the roller coaster .

At the borders we had to push the car by ourselves from the gate at the Egyptian side till the the Libyan gate ,we tried asking couple of people Libyans and Egyptians if we could just hang the rope at the back of their car just till the end of the borders but everyone had an excuse , the car is loaded , the customs will make troubles , and even for money some asked for non reasonable prices , so with laughs and excitement we did it our own and pushed it all the way for about two or three kilometers , I didn't realize that I was smelling like a pig until I was at the customs to finish the car's papers cos the guy working there pulled all the muscles of his neck and laid backwards when I stood in front of him , I didn't care much about that and as I forgot to mention what happened to my hand in here I forgot all about it there , I left the tooth past dry on it and crusting and didn't bother to check a doctor for it .

around 6 PM we were in Libya in front of the gate of the Libyan side of the borders, and a new adventure was about to begin .

Road Trip- Part 3 - Cairo

Cairo the capital of Egypt was our final stop before we return back to Libya , it's about 200 km from Alexandria by the desert road ( el tareeq el sa7rawi ) which was really nice and nothing like our libyan desert road , we arrived at the borders of Cairo just when it was getting dark and I can't remember how many taxis we get our car close to and asked about the way ( I didn't ask any people from the street because I was afraid that what happened in Alexandria would happen again) , I wanted to go to madenit nasr ( Nasr city) and I don't know how I got there but when I was telling our friend who live there from where we came he was choked that we took a huge turn around cairo to get here .

The first night we rested at our friends house and did nothing but sleep , we stayed six days in cairo , and only two special places I wanted to visit there, the Pyramids and the Egyptian museum ,for some reason I don't know why I was too crazy to drive in Cairo , it wasn't like anything I know , I can't tell you how crowded the roads are until you see them yourself , but they have one thing that makes every traffic jam vanish quickly , the cars never stop , they are moving all the time , buses never stop and people get in and out while it's moving , cars never stop even for people who are crossing the road , every one keeps moving and only hit the breaks lightly to slow down but never stop , if you stop like I did you find the street filled with shouting screaming yelling drivers with their car horns making it impossible to hear anything else .

one day went just for exploring downtown Cairo by car and by feet , from morning till night ,we did nothing but walk around getting lost between the millions of people there , at Altahreer square ( maydan el ta7reer) , Talat Harb street , then to el 3ataba then to Roksi and couple of other places I don't even know their names , too bad we forgot to bring the camera and thinking of going back home was impossible .


the next day was for the pyramids , more than one hour to get there even I took 6th October bridge which was made to cross the center of Cairo without getting stuck forever , I've been to Egypt before and I've seen the pyramids the excitement when I saw them was like the first time for those who haven't seen them let me tell you that they are big , bigger than you think bigger than than anyone can explain to you bigger than what you see on TV , you really have to go and see them yourself , it's just amazing how they are made , I can't say more about them because you really have to come see them by yourself , and to make the trip there even better then hire a horse and never accept the first price they give you , first we were told 120 LE each but in the end we got it only for 30 LE each and of course you will get stuck with a guide , our guide was talking non stop about how tourists pay him with euro and dollars and kept repeating it on and on and on and on and on till zikweeni told him we will pay you in euro but only if you shut up.

At the Egyptian museum I can say that two things attracted me only , the mummies and the Tutankhamun section , other than that I really got dizzy from the big amount of statues and things they got there , it's too much for a person to see in one day , I think I spent more than three hours just walking from aisle to aisle , too bad no cameras allowed inside .

Surly we didn't miss a walk at khan alkhaleeli but it wasn't as good as they show it on tv , I couldn't resist and bought little pyramids and a papyrus .

the rest of the time in Cairo we spent it either taking walks downtown or at City stars the coolest place to hang out .

one thing I got to say about Cairo is the controversy you see there ,you see sub zero people and millionaires, and it was bothering me so much seeing how the rich have no respect for the poor, humiliating the poor ones is almost normal thing over there , people aren't equal in all the world but the way I saw it in Egypt it just sucks .

there was nothing else for us to see there and it was fun but if we stay more days we were gonna get bored so on Tuesday night 20th March we left Cairo , we didn't know that fun was only about to start .

Road Trip- Part 2 - Alexandria

Alexandria was the first stop for us to explore , we arrived Monday night at around 9 , we were supposed to take a rest and sleep but instead we went out for a walk on the long lovely corniche , it was windy but the cold breeze felt so good after a long trip .

the next day Tuesday we woke up quite late and started the tour by visiting Qaitbay Citadel , it was amazing from the outside and the inside , and as all the castles I visited before the stairs steps are very high and the doors are huge as well which makes me wonder were these people giants or what ?
next to the citadel was a small sea world buliding so we got in there and it was the worst sea world I have ever seen , the place was a mess .

Bibliotheca Alexandrina was the only place I wanted to visit in Alexandria , I've seen and read about it before but nothing was close to what I saw when I was there , the building looked amazing with a very modern architecture something I cant explain , how the sun is lighting all the inside and how the floors were like steps , everything was visible when you get to the top floor , and in the middle there was area where old printing machines and a section where Impressions of Alexandria gallery , Shady Abdelsalam Gallery and Manuscript Museum, after checking all these places I wanted to check some books and I got very confused because of the large amount of references I could get , I spent two hours just surfing through some books with the help of a great assistant I found there .
when I went out I took a little walk around the Library where I found a sundial and checked the time and it was correct , it was 1:55 on my watch and few cm before 2 on the sundial , outside also was the head of Alexander the great and the Bibliotheca Alexandria Planetarium .

At night we decided to take a round in the streets of Alexandria with my car but we got lost , we asked for the directions to the Corniche but we found ourselves being more and more lost until we realized that some of the people we asked were giving us wrong directions and I think it was intentionally , we got into narrow streets where I was thinking this is it now they are gonna make us stop and steal the car and everything else , I derove non stop in the narrow streets and tried to use my sense of directions but we got ourselves more lost until we found ourselves going in a street full of people and their wooden carriages selling all these kind of things you see in any Egyptian movie fil 7ara , I hit one carriage with the car without intention because I was watching the hundreds of people walking in front, next to and behind the car , the guy started yelling with these Egyptian bullshit words , soka moka, 7almbo galmbo , shika bika and no word cam out from me but I was ready to run him over if he got near to me , zikweeni was looking around like crazy trying to tell me to watch out for this and for that , now another car came from the other end of the long endless full of people street , it was a taxi and he was yelling Irga3 ya 3am inta gai fil mamnoo3 , I realized that when I saw other two cars came behind him , I told him irga3 inta ya asta and there we got stuck , so was this the trap I was waiting for , no it wasn't , some guy removed some of the stuff he was selling and told me to get in the place carefully and slowly I felt I am not going out of this without any loss tonight , I asked zikweeni to hide the money we got under the dashboard and we both started laughing .
thank god we got ourselves out of this mess after the help of this guy who removed his stuff for us , after all there was a gada3 as the Egyptians say and he told us the way out exactly and we followed it , it took us more than three hours of being lost ,but the car didn't get a single scratch and our money was still with us so it wasn't a total loss after all .

Wednesday morning , no more going out with the car , so we took a cab to Al Manshiyya (downtown), there was the memoir of The Unknown Soldier at Ahmed Orabi Square and Mohamed ali statue at altahrir square , then we went to shara3 Faransa where in soem of the sides streets from there you find the best places where they make the best bdali 3arbeeya a Libyan traditional costume , I went to a ma7al owned by a guy called Yakoot who is well known in this , while he was taking my size when he was putting the tape meter around my belly he taped on my Karsha ( belly) and said di 7a tzeed wala khlas kefaya keda ( so this will grow more or what ),to be honest I didn't know what to answer him so I just shrug my shoulders .
then we went out and walked through the streets into a street market like the one we got stuck into the night before until we reached al-Morsi Abu'll Abbas Mosque .

we were supposed to check out before 12 , so we went back to teh apartment early and took our luggage and went to Carrefour city center at the beginning of The Desert road (EL tareeq al sa7rawi) , had lunch there and headed to Cairo .

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Flaysha

Flaysha is the other name for Al ahli football club that the fans like to call it here in Libya, and for those who doesn't know , Alahli is the number one club in Libya and even it's going down the past few years yet it's still got the biggest number of fans , they occupy more than 3/4 of the stadium and only 1/4 for Al Iti7ad the biggest opponent .

Yesterday was the big game here in Libya , Al ahli vs Al Iti7ad , I can't say that I am Al ahli fan but I know I don't like AL iti7ad at all , so I went to the game yesterday with my friends and it was a hell of experience , first the crowd outside was outstanding and unbelievable especially the police was closing all the doors in for Al ahli's fans side , the game was great because Alahli played really well but Al Iti7ad scored a goal in the second half and the excitement of the game lasted until the extra time when Al ahli had a penalty kick at the minute 94 but surprisingly Nader Kara took the ball from Omar dawood and went to score it but he lost it as we all expected it, not because Kara isn't a good player but he is not into Al ahli at all , he have been playing for months now but he still didn't get into the team and I guess after loosing that crucial penalty kick yesterday he should consider hiding for a while because now he is the number one enemy for all Al ahli fans .

The best thing in the game was the fans , so much fun so many songs they are singing and lots and lots of fireworks , I just wish the game was at night so we could have seen all the fireworks clearly .

Road Trip - Part 1-

As I promised I will start posting the story of my trip step by step and in this first part I will write about the first two days .

The first day, Sunday 11th March me and Zikweeni left Tripoli at 7 am , we packed everything we could which later on we realized we didn't need half of it , before we left we decided to make our trip further than the Libyan borders so stopping in Libya will be on our way back , this was the first tiem for both of us to go beyond Misrata ,and even everyone said it's one way stright and there is no way of loosing the direction I bought a map from Alforgani bookstore which is amazing because it's roads map with distance written between every point because as you know there aren't much signs on the road to know where you are or how far you are from anywhere , so we headed east and stopped at Misrata (200km) at 9 we had breakfast there at a local cafe and then hit the road non stop until Sirt where we stopped for lunch then all the way till Benghazi ,we didn't want to finish from Agdabiya till Tubroug directly but we went north to Benghazi and spent the night there at a hotel called Africa hotel in Algeria street , this was my first time to visit Benghazi and I found it really nice although it seems so old and all the building are so old , even that Tebisti hotel that we see on tv all the time , there we found that they have three big streets , shari3 3ishreen , shara3 Dubai , and shara3 Gamal , at least these are the main thee street I knew by asking people over there ,and while driving there I got lost so many times and asking people over there didn't help ,I know I am talking like I wasn't in Libya but seriously the accent was quite difficult and different than those shraga(eastern) in tripoli because they talk really really fast I don't know why , we had dinner at a place called Aldimashki , it's a very nice place at Dubai street with all these Lebanese food or may be it's Syrian because of the name , next morning at 7 as well I took directions from the hotel reception and we got our selves a shorter way than the one we planned to take which involved passing by Albyada and Derna so instead we took the road to Almarij then took the desert road ( elsa7rawi) , I even learned a new word from the guy was telling me the directions, it's 3goba meaning the road around the mountain , first I thought they meant ma6ab or something like that .
Almarj was amazing and I felt like I wasn't in Libya because of the green fields and trees I saw , we passed by Taknis which was amazing and the people over there were so kind , we stopped to ask for the road and the old men sitting there made us stop and drink the morning tea with them , it was so nice with the fresh air filling my lung , then we reached el sa7rawi , I thought we were lost because we were the only car there , we even stopped and took pictures in the middle of the road and I even slept and no car passed , I think it took more than 20 minutes until a car showed up, the road was about 250 km and at the end of it we reached el Tameemi then headed east towards Tobrug , we didn't stop until we reached Imsa3id at around 12 , we did the papers for the car at the customs and then headed to the borders , at the Libyan side everything was smooth and only two cars were there so we got our passport stamped fast then we reached the Egyptian side where the troubles started , no offense to all the Egyptians but almost all the guys working at the border are working with rashwa (money tips) only , you tip them they do what they are supposed to do but if you don't then you have to wait for a very long time , I agreed with Zikweeni that we are not paying any garsh for them ,so we had to be the last ones in everything , but before that the first thing we faced is the fire extinguisher, we didn't have one and we had to buy a new one from them , so this is tip number one ( if you are going to Egypt with your car bring a fire extinguisher with you ) ,then at the customs they searched every inch of the car and even checked the spare tire if it was filled with air or something else , I am glad I didn't hide anything there , I know if I gave them 10 or 20 Egyptian pounds they wont search anything , now the paper work for the car took more than two hours first because somehow the engine's number wasn't written in the car's registrations and second because I didn't tip the guy checking the Engine and Car's number and everyone else was tipping him so he left us last , so me and zikweeni took two chips packs and bought cold drinks and said to the guy m3ak la leel ma wrana shai , it was a hot sunny day but yet we decided to wait until 4 o'clock we got out of the Egyptian borders and went down to Alsaloom through the amazing road on the sea, filled with our stink and sweats I felt like my kanatera is glued to my skin now , but we didn't have any other choice than driving all the way until Alexandria ,the distance is about 500km and we reached Alexandria around 9 rented an apartment took a nice long shower then instead of going to sleep we found ourselves going out again .

Km passed at the first day ( Tripoli to Benghazi) 990Km



Km passed at the second day ( Benghazi to Alexandria) 1060 km



Total 2050 Km

Tebesti Hotel in Benghazi

at Almarj

Almarj

Taknis

Elsa7rawi
( only 20 km away from the last picture )
Very Big difference

I am home

I am back home alhamdulilah after fourteen days road trip, we were only two me and my best friend, I call him Zikweeni and he calls me Zikweeni too I don't know from where the name came but we call each other like this all the time , we had a great time and a bad time too ,I will tell the details of the trip and put some pictures too in the post that I am planing to write about this trip inshallah so for now let me just say that I am glad to be home and I never was this happy to reach home .

first step to the road trip

Since I am going on a road trip with one of my friends , a road trip that I still don't know where it will end but I only know the direction, we are going east , I don't know how far though , so I took this opportunity to finally do something I always wanted to do , buy new wheels and tires for my car ,it felt like when a girl buys new shoes , so much excitement , showing it to everyone and asking how does it look .
I always wanted to buy new wheels because the old wheels looked so ugly because two weeks after I bought the car( two years ago) the covers of the wheels were stolen and I never bought new ones plus the old wheels were shaking the car cos they were wrecked and there was no way to use them for a long trip and I was right to change them because when I wanted to leave one of them as a spare I found all of them were not good and the guy in the shop asked me how you manged to use them until now!! , I even tried selling them but no one even wanted to throw them at the back of his shop until he sell them .

so now tell me what do you think of the new wheels ?










By the way I am not a shoes kind of guy , I have only one shes I use it all the time no matter what I wear and as you can see I think it's about time I buy new ones or may be I'll wait until my big toe stick out of it like it did in the last one .

lately

Things are getting crazy over here with me lately , I have a lot of things need to be done I don't know why I am still not organized , I stay bored for couple of weeks not doing anything that I find out that I have to do so many things in short time , things get all together at once , so is it me not being organized or isn't things coming to me once .

I met Khadija Teri last week and she was such a sweet lady not much different from the person you see in her blog , I went to visit her with Akram ( A.Adam) in the school she works at ,we had a nice short quick conversation and in the end she put on my shoulder the great idea she suggested , a blood drive for the Libyan bloggers , well I don't know from where to start but inshallah kheer , so for now I need your help to sign your names in and tell me if we can do it or not , I will be away after the next week so we will have enough time to plan everything inshallah , on the other hand Akram told me about this event on Child's day on the 21st march in Tripoli Medical Center , all the details you can get them from him I think .

صـــوت صـفـيـر الـبـلـبـل

كان الخليفة العباسي أبو جعفر المنصور لا يعطي الشاعر على قصيدة نقلها من غيره وكان يحفظ ما يسمع من أول مرة ، وله غلام يحفظ القصيدة من مرتين ، و جارية تحفظ القصيدة من ثلاث ..
فكان الشاعر يكتب قصيدة طويلة ، يدبجها طول ليلة وليلتين وثلاثفيقول له الخليفة : إن كانت من قولك أعطيناك وزن الذي كتبته عليها ذهبا ، وإن كانت من منقولك لم نعطك عليها شيئا فيوافق الشاعر .. ويلقيها على مسامع الخليفة فيحفظها الخليفة من أول مرة .. فيقول له أنني أحفظها منذ زمن بعيد فيقولها له ثم يؤكد ذلك بالغلام الذي حفظها أيضا فيذكرها كاملة ثم ينادي على الجارية التي قد فتقولها كاملة فيشك الشاعر في نفسه وهكذا مع كل الشعراء , فبينما هم كذلك إذا بالأصمعي يقدم عليهم فيشكون إليه حالهم, فقال : دعوا الأمر لي , فكتب قصيدة ملونة الأبيات والموضوعات وتنكر بزي أعرابي وأتى الأمير ليسمعه شعره ..

فقال الخليفة : أتعرف الشروط .. قال : نعم .. قال : هات القصيدة .. فقال :

صـــوت صـفـيـر الـبـلـبـل ** هــيــج قـلـبـي الـثـمـل

المـاء والـزهـر مــعــــا ** مــع زهـــر لـحظ المـقـل

وأنت يـا ســـيــد لـــي ** وســيــدي و مـــــولي لــي

فــكــم فــكــم تـيـمـني ** غــزيــــــــــــل عــقــيــقــــــــل

قــطــفــتـه مــن وجـنــة ** مـــن لــثــم ورد الخـجـل

فـــــقــــــــال لا لا لا لا ** و قــد غـــدا مــهــرول

والــخـــود مــالـت طــربا ** مــن فـــعـــل هذا الرجل

فــولــولــت وولـــولــت ** ولــي ولــي يـــا ويـــــــلـلـي

فـــقــلـت لا تــولــولـي ** وبــيــنــي الـلـــــــــؤلــــــــؤلــي

قــــالــت لـه حـيـن كــذا ** أنــهــض وجــــــد بـالنـقـل

وفــتــيــة ســقــــــــونــنـي ** قــهــــــــــــوة كــالـعــسـل لي

شــمــمـتــهــا بـأنــفـــــــي ** أزكـــــــى مــــــن الــقــرنــفــل

فـي وسـط بـسـتــان حـلـي ** بـالــزهــر والــســـرور لـي

والــعــود دنــدنــدن لي ** والــطــبــل طـبـطـب طـبـلي

طب طبطب طب طبطب ** طب طبطب طبطب طب لي

والــرقــص قــد طــاب لـي ** والـسـقـف ســقــسـق سـق لـي

شـــوا شــــوا وشــاهــش ** عـلـى ورق ســــفـــرجــــل

وغــرد الــقــمــري يـصيح ** مـــلـــل فـــي مــلــلـــــــــــي

ولــو تــرانــي راكــبــــــــــــا ** عـلـى حــمــــــــــار أهـــــزل

يــمــشــي عـلـى ثـلاثـــــــة ** كــمــشــيـــــــة الــعــرنــجــل

والـنـاس تـرجـم جـمــلي ** فــي الــســوق بالــقـلـقـلـلـي

والـكـل كــعـكــــــع كـعـكـع ** خـلـفـي ومـن حــــويـلـلـي

لـكـن مــشــيــت هــاربـــا ** مـن خــشــيــــة الــعــقـنـقـل

إلـــــى لــقــــــــــــــاء مـلـك ** مــعــظـــــــــم مـــبــجـــــــــــــــل

يـأمــــــــــــر لـي بِـخِـلـعَــةٍ ** حـــمــراء كــالـدم دم لــــي

أجـــــــــر فــيــهـا مـاشـيا ** مــبــغــــــــددا لـلــــذيــــــــــــل

أنـــا الأديــب الألـمــعـي ** مــــن حــــي أرض الـمــوصـل

نــظــمــت قــطــعـا زخـرفـت ** يــعــجــز عــنــهــا الأدب لي

أقــول فـي مـــطــلــعــهـا ** صــــوت صــفــيــر الــبـلبل

فلم يستطيع الخليفة أن يحفظها لصعوبة كلماتها وتداخل حروفها ، فنادى الغلام فلم يستطع شيئا غير أبيات متقطعة فنادى الجارية فعجزت عندئذ قال الخليفة أحضر ما كتبته عليها لنعطيك وزنه ذهبا ..
قال الأصمعي ورثت عمود رخام من أبي نقشت عليه القصيدة وهو على ظهر الناقة لا يحمله إلا أربعة من الجنود فانهار الخليفة وجئ بالعمود فوزن كل ما في الخزنة , وعندما أراد الخروج .. عرف الخليفة أنه الأصمعي ، وعرف منه سبب حيلته , فاتفق معه أن يعطي الشعراء ما تيسر من أجل تشجيعهم

حمل ( AMR)
القصيدة فقط
القصيدة مع الشرح

collection of pictures

I was cleaning my computer from all the junk I am collecting in it and I found a lot of pictures that I don't know what to do with them so I decided to post some of them now and may be will post some of what is left another time .

Tripoli The Capital Of Islamic Culture for 2007

the sun wasn't rounded and the sky looked amazing but picturing it with a mobile phone can't show how nice the view was .


some how I love palm trees , I used to climb them when I was young with my young relatives and it was the best thing eating dates right from the top .


Once I saw this sign while driving I wanted to park just to read it , I couldn't but I came the next day with my camera , somehow it's funny sign , may be being long or may be the list of things they wrote , I like the point number 8

الحصول لكم علي أية معلومات دقيقة تهمكم عن أي شئ من العالم الخارجي

This school looks amazing from the outside comparing to any other school in Libya , I play basketball sometimes there .


I don't know what is it called but this is one of the weired flowers my dad grows in our garden


Just as I came out of the house I saw this guy walking the dog , a weired thing to see here as the guy isn't the owner of course but an African working for Modeer as the guy said when I asked him whose dog is this , I can't understand the people who hire someone to walk their dog for them , why would you get a dog if you can't take care of it .

This is my favorite T shirt , I bought it in 1998 and I am still wearing it until now


My little Monkey , it's in a key chain , a girly thing I know but It's a gift so what can I do .


Every time I get addicted to something until I hate it , that time I was addicted to Shani .


When you first read it it might look normal but my dad wrote shakroo6a instead of shkoor6a so we made fun of him for a while that day .


The middle X ray shows what is called Terry Thomas Sign , just because the space between the bones looks the same as Terry Thomas's front teeth