Sol 6.1

  1. أيَّ أمر حازمٍ رَكبتْ

    أيَّ مرءٍ عاجز تَرَكتْ

    What a decisive venture she undertook!

    What a helpless man she abandoned!

  2. فِتْنَة ابن الجوهري لقد

    أظهرتْ نصحاً وقد أفكتْ

    Ibn al-Jawhari's Fitna indeed

    showed good faith, though she lied.

  3. أكذبتها عزمة ظهرت

    لا تبالي نفس من سفكتْ

    A resolve that emerged proved her false;

    she cared not whose lifeblood she shed.

  4. ظفرت فيها بما هويتْ

    ونجت من قرب من فركتْ

    Through it she gained what she desired,

    and escaped the company of one she hated.

  5. كم خدود بعدها لُطمتْ

    وجيوب بعدها هُتكتْ

    How many cheeks were slapped in her wake,

    and shirtfronts torn in her wake!

  6. وعيون مارقآنَ على

    حسن وجه فاتهن بكتْ

    And eyes that never dried

    wept for the beauty of a face lost to them.

  7. خرجت والليل معتكر

    لم يهلها أيةً سلكتْ

    She went out, with the night thickly dark,

    undaunted, whichever path she took,

  8. وعيون الناس هاجعةٍ

    ودُجَى الظلماء قد حَلَكَتْ

    while people's eyes lay sleeping,

    and the night's darkness had grown pitch-black.

  9. لم تخفْ وجداً بعاشقها

    حرمةَ الشهر الذي انتهكتْ

    Longing for her lover, she did not fear

    the sanctity of the month she violated.

  10. ورأت لما سقتْ كمدا

    إنها في دينها نَسَكَتْ

    And she thought, when she made others drink anguish,

    that she had acted devoutly in her faith.

  11. مُليت كف بها ظفرت

    دون هذا الخلق ما ملكتْ

    May the hand that won her long enjoy

    what it possesses, alone among all these people.

  12. أيّ ملك إذ خلا وخلت

    فشكا أشجانه وشكتْ

    What a kingdom, when he and she were alone,

    and he lamented his sorrows, and she hers!

  13. تَجتلي من وجهه ذهباً

    وهو يجلو فضةً فتكتْ

    She beholds gold in his face,

    while he unveils silver that has dealt death.

  14. هكذا فعل الفتاة إذا

    هي في عشاقها محكتْ

    Such is a young woman's conduct when

    she turns obstinate among her lovers.