Saqt az-Zand

Saqt az-Zand (Arabic: سقط الزند, romanized: Saqṭ az-Zand; also transliterated as Sikt al-Zand and translated as The Spark of the Fire Stick or The Falling Spark of Tinder) was the first collection of poetry by al-Ma'arri.:3 It consists of seventy-four qasidas amounting to over three thousand lines, written in his youth and early adulthood, before the year 1020.:22