أترضىAre you content ياO وزيرَvizier الشامِSyria أنَّيthat I
أترضى يا وزيرَ الشامِ أنَّي
بدهرِكَin your time أشتكيI lament حالاًa plight قبيحةwretched
بدهرِكَ أشتكي حالاً قبيحة
Are you content, O vizier of Syria, that I
Are you pleased, O minister of Syria, that I
In your time lament a wretched plight,
Complain of your time and its ugly state?
وأنَّand that الناسَpeople تذبحُslaughter فيamong الضحاياsacrificial animals
وأنَّ الناسَ تذبحُ في الضحايا
وماand not ليfor me غيرother than أجفانٍeyelids ذبيحةslaughtered
وما لي غير أجفانٍ ذبيحة
And that people slaughter animals for sacrifice,
People are slaughtered as sacrifices,
While I have nothing but slaughtered eyelids?
And I have naught to offer but my eyelids.
ويمضيand passes العيدُthe festival فيin أكلٍeating وشربٍand drinking
ويمضي العيدُ في أكلٍ وشربٍ
وماand not ليfor me فيin الشريحةِthe slice of meat منهfrom it ريحهa whiff
وما لي في الشريحةِ منه ريحه
And the festival passes in eating and drinking,
The feast goes on with food and drink,
While I get not even a whiff of a slice of its meat.
Yet I smell not a morsel of the feast.
Sol 6.1