It is an expression of a single word

or a combination of two words,

or more.

And they chant with it like poems,

and enjoy it.

So the conclusion - then - is that for every people there is a law and special controls for their versified speech

along with the shared amount which we alluded to.

[The enjoyment of people by melodious voices and sweet tunes:]

And upon this you find all sorts of people and their nations

finding strange enjoyment and pleasure in voices and melodies,

the melodious beautiful, and captivating musical tunes,

no disagreement among them in that,

except that the ways of their intonation, the methods of their composition,

and the rules of singing among them differ among themselves.

Meters of the Greeks for melodies:

And indeed the Greeks laid down a number of meters for these melodies

and they call them "Al-Maqamat" and they derived from the maqamat sounds,

and sections and extracted tunes and melodies

they made it an expanded, detailed, independent art, along with the precision of rules and principles.

Meters of the Indians and their melodies:

Likewise the Indians laid down six melodies,

then they extracted from them multiple tunes and compositions,

And indeed we saw the people of the countryside among them who do not know these two terms,

they invented for themselves a special combination and a special melody according to their innate instinct and artistic taste,

and they placed for themselves meters without them controlling for it the rules and generalities, and investigating thoroughly