1. [RIGHT]أتراكَ تعرفُ عِلَّتي وشَفائي[/P]

    يا داءَ قلبي في الهوى ودَوائي

    Do you, I wonder, know my ailment and my cure?

    O ailment of my heart in love, and my remedy!

  2. ما رقَّ قلبك لي كأن شكايتي

    كانت لمسمع صخرةٍ صمَّاء

    Your heart did not soften toward me, as though my complaint

    Was addressed to the ear of a deaf rock.

  3. والشوق برَّح بي وزاد شجونَهُ

    يا شدَّ ما ألقى من البرحاء

    And longing tormented me and deepened its sorrows;

    Ah, how fierce the torment I endure!

  4. عجباً لمن أخذ الغرامُ بقلبه

    أنَّى يعد به من الأحياء

    How strange for one whose heart passion has seized—

    How can he, with such a heart, be counted among the living?

  5. هل يعلم الواشون أن صبابتي

    كانت بلحظ مها وجيد ظباء

    Do the tale-bearers know that my yearning

    Came from oryx glances and gazelle necks?

  6. وتجرُّعي مضضَ الملام من التي

    حلت عقيب الجزع في الجرعاء

    And that my swallowing reproach's bitterness is because of her

    Who settled beyond the valley bend on the sandy plain?

  7. لم يحسن العيش الذي شاهدته

    من بعد ذات الطلعة الحسناء

    The life I have known has not been sweet

    Since the lady with the lovely countenance departed.

  8. فمتى أبلُّ صدىً بمرشف شادن

    نقض العهود ولا وفى لوفائي

    So when shall I quench my thirst at a young gazelle's lips,

    Who broke his pledges and did not repay my faithfulness?

  9. وجفا وملّ أخا الهوى من بعد ما

    كنا عقيدي ألفةٍ وإخاء

    And shunned and tired of his companion in love, after

    We had been bound in a pact of affection and brotherhood.

  10. ونأى بركب الظاعنين عشية

    أين الركابُ وأينَ ذاك النائي

    And one evening he went far away with the departing caravan;

    Where are the riding camels, and where is that distant one?

  11. أصبحتُ لمَّا ماسَ عدل قوامهِ

    أشكو طِعان الصعدة السمراء

    When the peer of his stature swayed, I began

    To lament the thrusts of the straight, dusky spear.

  12. وأجيبُ سائلَ مهجتي عن دائها

    دائي هواك فلا بليت بدائي

    And I answer the one who asks my heart about its ailment:

    My ailment is love of you—may you never suffer my ailment.

  13. لم يدر واللمسِ الممنع طبّه

    أن الدواء بمقتضى الأدواء

    His healer did not know—by that touch withheld—

    That the remedy must accord with the ailments.

  14. عُج يا نديم على الكؤوس ميمِّماً

    وأدِر عليَّ سلافة الصهباء

    Turn aside, drinking companion, and make for the cups,

    And pass me the choicest ruddy wine.

  15. وأعد حديثَك لي بذكر أحبّةٍ

    كانوا بدور سناً لعين الرائي

    And repeat your tale to me, recalling loved ones

    Who were radiant full moons to the beholder's eye.

  16. مرت بنا أخبارهم فكأنها

    أرَجُ الصّبا عن روضة غناء

    News of them passed by us, as though it were

    The east wind's fragrance from a luxuriant garden.

  17. وتحاكمتْ بي في الهوى أشواقُهم

    فقضى عليَّ الحبُّ أيَّ قضاء

    And longings for them brought me to love's court;

    Then love passed sentence on me—what a sentence!

  18. لو كنت أدري غدركم بمحبكم

    ما كنتُ أمكِنكُمْ على أحشائي

    Had I known your treachery toward the one who loves you,

    I would not have given you power over my entrails.

  19. لامَ النصيحُ فما سمعتُ ملامَه

    وصَدَدْتُ عنه لشقوتي وعنائي

    The well-wisher reproached me, but I did not heed his reproach,

    And I turned away from him, to my misery and suffering.

  20. ما كانَ أرشدني إلى سبل الهوى

    لو أنني أصغي إلى النصحاء

    How rightly I would have been guided along love's paths,

    Had I listened to the counselors!

  21. كيف المنازلُ بعد ساكنة الحمى

    عهدي بها قمريَّة الأرجاء

    How fare the dwellings now the lady of the sanctuary has gone?

    I remember them, moonlit in every quarter.

  22. لما وقفت على منازلها ضحىً

    حَيَّيتُها بتحيَّةِ الكرماء

    When I stood at her dwellings in the forenoon,

    I greeted them with the greeting of the noble.

  23. عادتنيَ الأيَّام في سُكانها

    كعداوة الجُهَّال للعلماء

    The days were hostile to me over their inhabitants,

    Like the ignorant's enmity toward the learned.

  24. هل أصبح الدهر الخؤون معاندي

    أم كانت الأيام من خصمائي

    Has treacherous time become my adversary,

    Or have the days been among my foes?

  25. ما للَّيالي إن نظرْنَ فضائلي

    نظرتْ إليَّ بمقلة عمياء

    What ails the nights? If they look upon my virtues,

    They look at me with a blind eye.

  26. إنِّي أصون الشعر لا بخلاً به

    عن أن يذل بساحة اللؤماء

    I safeguard poetry—not out of stinginess with it—

    From being humbled in the courtyard of the base.

  27. أن كنت تثني بالجميل على امرئ

    فعلى جميل أبي الثناء ثنائي

    If you praise a man with fair words,

    My praise is for the goodness of Abu al-Thana.

  28. أعيى المناضلَ والمناظرَ فارتقت

    علياؤه قدراً على العلياء

    He baffled the contender and the disputant; thus rose

    His eminence in rank above the heights.

  29. متوقد مثل الضرام فطانة

    وبلطف ذاك الطبع لطف الماء

    Blazing like fire in keenness of mind,

    And that nature's gentleness is the gentleness of water.

  30. فتبلَّجت منه شموس فضائلٍ

    ظهرت على الدنيا بغير خفاء

    Then suns of virtue dawned from him;

    They appeared to the world without concealment.

  31. وعلت على أفهامنا ألفاظه

    فتمثَّلت بكواكب الجوزاء

    His words rose above our understanding,

    And appeared like the stars of al-Jawza.

  32. تلك الرويّة والسجيَّة لم تزل

    أقمار أفقٍ أو نجوم سماء

    That deliberation and disposition have ever been

    Moons on a horizon, or stars in a sky.

  33. كم قد أفيضت من يديه لنا يدٌ

    شكراً لهاتيك اليد البيضاء

    How many a favor has flowed from his hands to us!

    Thanks be to that white hand!

  34. إيْ والذي جعل العلى من مجده

    فرح الصديق وغمَّة الأعداء

    Yes, by Him who made the eminence of his glory

    The friend's delight and the enemies' sorrow!

  35. شِمنا بوارق نائل من سيله

    متتابع الإحسان بالآلاء

    We glimpsed the lightning flashes of bounty from his torrent,

    Unceasing in beneficence through his blessings.

  36. هيهات يحكي جوده صوب الحيا

    والغيث موقوف على الأنواء

    Far from matching his generosity is the rain's downpour,

    While rainfall depends on the seasonal stars.

  37. بحر إذا التمس المؤمِّلُ ورْده

    فاضت عليه زواخر الأنداء

    A sea: when the hopeful seeker seeks its watering place,

    Surging tides of generosity overflow upon him.

  38. إن قيل في الزوراء أصبح قاطناً

    فاعلم بأنَّ المجدَ في الزوراء

    If it is said that he has taken up residence in al-Zawra,

    Know then that glory is in al-Zawra.

  39. نُشرت علومك في البلاد جميعها

    كالصُّبح إذ ملأ الفضا بضياء

    Your learning has spread throughout all lands,

    Like dawn when it filled the expanse with light.

  40. ولك الذَّكاءُ كأنّما برهانه

    يكسو سناه تبلّج ابنِ ذكاء

    Yours is intelligence, as though its proof

    Clothed Ibn Dhuka's dawning brightness in its radiance.

  41. ونظرتَ في الأشياء نظرة عارف

    حتَّى عرفت حقائق الأشياء

    And you looked upon things with a knower's gaze,

    Until you knew the realities of things.

  42. وكشفتَ من سر العلوم غوامضاً

    فيهن كانت حيرة الحكماء

    And uncovered obscure matters in the secrets of the sciences,

    That had left the sages bewildered.

  43. أجريت حكم الله بين عباده

    فعَلَتْ بحكمك راية الإفتاء

    You administered God's judgment among His servants,

    And through your judgment the banner of religious rulings rose.

  44. وكأنما يوحى إليك فقد بدت

    لك معجزات النظم والإنشاء

    As though revelation came to you, there have appeared

    For you miracles of verse and prose.

  45. فَعَلَت لك الأقلام في مهَج العدى

    ما تفعل الأبطال في الهيجاء

    For you the pens wrought in your enemies' hearts

    What heroes do in battle.

  46. خرسٌ إذا أنطقتَها بأنامل

    أخرَسْتَ فيها ألسن الفصحاء

    Mute they are; when you give them speech with fingertips,

    Through them you silence the tongues of the eloquent.

  47. أبكيتها فتضاحكت لبكائها

    روضُ الفضائل لا رياض كبار

    You made them weep, and at their weeping laughed

    The gardens of virtues, not large gardens.

  48. فإذا مدحت مدحت غير مراهن

    فيها وغير معرض لرياء

    So when I praise, I praise without wagering

    On them, and without courting ostentation.

  49. فاهنأ بهذا العيد إنك عيده

    يا فرحتي دون الورى وهنائي

    Rejoice in this feast, for you are its feast,

    O my joy and happiness above all mankind!

  50. وأجزْ عبيدك في رضاك فإنه

    وأبيك غايةُ مطلبي ورجائي

    And reward your humble servant with your favor, for it is

    By your father, the utmost of my desire and hope.

  51. لا زلت منفرداً بما أدَّيته

    من رفعةٍ وفضيلة وعلاء

    May you ever remain unrivaled in what you have achieved

    Of eminence, virtue, and exaltation.