Ughaz Nur II
During his youth, he loved riding, hunting and the traditional arts and memorized a great number of proverbs, stories and poems.
[4] During the time of Nur II both Egypt and Ethiopia were contending for power and supremacy in the Horn of Africa.
Ughaz Nuur went to Egypt to meet Ismail Pasha, the khedive, belonging to the Ottoman Empire, who honored the King of the Gadabuursi with medals and expensive gifts.
Even at old age of almost 80 Major Leckie writes about the King's aquiline features and graceful figure:"Ugaz Nur was a old man of around almost 80 years.
His face indicated intelligence and a pleasant, affable nature "[8] Ugas Nur was a famous poet and ranked among the greatest.
Ugas Nur his poetry is described as the following in the Horn of Africa journal: "I am taken back to the magnificent oral poetry (witness Ugaas Nuur's lines), to the idyllic sweetness of the pastoral world in which I was born and spent my adolescent years, and to which I yearn to return"[10]The poem was first recorded in the "Gadabuursi Somali Script", by I.M.
Allahayow nin ii daran maxaan daafta hore seexshay Nin ii daaqsanaayana maxaan daafida u kariyey Jidhku nin uunan doonayn maxaan hadalka deeqsiiyay Ma degdego’e xaajada maxaan ugu dulqaad yeeshay Weji debecsan dayma’an dareen gelin dubaaqiisa Dibna furan dabuub una ka didin deexashiyo muuso Qosol dibadda yaalloon ka iman dhuunta dacalkeeda Kanaan degey kanaan doorka biday kani dan baan mooday Waxaan dood kaftana sheekadaa ugu daleeyaaba Dabinkaan u dhigay maalintuu dacalka soo saaro Intiyoon dawaarka u rogoon xeeladda u daadsho Isagoon digniin qabin maxaan kaga dayaan siiyey!
Oh God how I have allowed a man who is bad for me to sleep in the daaf of the aqal (somali tent) How I have cooked cereal for a man who grazes (his horse) for (attacking) me How I have been generous in speech to a man the body rejects How I have shown patience in matters and have not been hasty With a pleasant mien and glance, thoughts (of hostility) have not entered his mind With open lips discussion with no specific point, talkativeness and smiling A laugh on the surface which has not come from inside the throat I put this down, preferred that, I think this is for the best I decorate the discourse with joking discussion On the day he stepped upon the edge of the trap I set for him Like pedalling a sewing machine into motion I spread the cunning for him Without any warning how I struck him down!
