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Launch your arrows so you may attain your desires

أطلق سهامك

1. Launch your arrows so you may attain your desires
For if you keep them, it will be your demise

١. أطلِقْ سِهامَكَ كيْ تنالَ مآربكْ
فبها إنِ اسْتبقيْتَها يكُ مَقتلكْ

2. Launch them and fear not this life, for it
Is a fickle woman, repelled by spilled blood

٢. أطلِقْ ولا تخْشَ الحياةَ فإنّها
أنثى يُنفّرُها احْمرارُ دمٍ سُفِكْ

3. And if she sees it in the air, she will not doubt
That a disaster is imminent and close at hand

٣. ولئِن رأَتْها في الهواءِ فلنْ تشُك
كَ بأنّ نازلةً تُلِمُّ على وشَكْ

4. Give your arrow its share of those who exposed themselves
So the portion of an arrow that hit finds your hand

٤. واجعلْ لسَهمِكَ حصّةً ممّا عَرَضْ
فنصيبُ سهْمٍ صابَ مَبلغُهُ يدُكْ

5. Be calm if an arrow misses, for surely
If it misses flesh, it will hit a soul no doubt

٥. واهدأْ إذا سهمٌ كبَا إذْ أنّهُ
إنْ لمْ يصُبْ لحْمًا فروحًا دونَ شكْ

6. So if it strikes the soul of those who opposed you
You are victorious, and their flesh will be brought to you

٦. فإذا أصابَ الرّوحَ ممّنْ ناوأكْ
فقدِ انتصَرْتَ ولحمُهُ سيُساقُ لكْ

7. Launch your arrows and do not exclude those
Who worshipped life, for among them are your killers

٧. أطلِقْ ولا تسْتثنِ إنْ أطْلَقْتَ منْ
عبَدُوا الحياةَ فإنّ فيهِمْ قاتلَكْ

8. Thus you would have stripped life of a killer
Who would have set himself free tomorrow, to kill you

٨. فتكونَ قد جرّدْتَها من قاتلٍ
كانتْ ستُعتِقهُ غدًا كيْ يقتلَكْ

9. Launch your arrows for a hitting arrow is common, and an
Errant arrow is a day that sought refuge in you

٩. أطلِقْ فسهمٌ صائبٌ عامٌ وسه
مٌ حائدٌ يومٌ لعُمرٍ لاذَ بِكْ

10. For if you hesitate and do not unleash your arrows
The beast in its savagery will show you no mercy

١٠. فإنِ اسْتَكنْتَ ولمْ تُبادِرْ أسهمُكْ
فالوحشُ في وحْشِيِّها لنْ يرحَمَكْ

11. Each slave of them has a savage beast
Alas, if you do not want it to leave you

١١. ولَكُلُّ عبْدٍ مِنهمُ وحشيُّها
هيْهاتَ إنْ لمْ تُرْدِهِ أنْ يَترُكَكْ

12. Launch your arrows, and if not for us being hostage to it
I would advise you to target it with your first arrow

١٢. أطلِقْ ولولا أنّنا رهنٌ بِها
لنصَحْتُ أنْ تُرْمىْ بأوّلِ أسْهُمِكْ