1. أنجَدَ الصبُّ وغاروا

    هكذا تنأى الدِيارُ

    The lovesick lover went up to Najd; they descended to the lowlands.

    Thus the dwellings grow distant.

  2. هو سيرٌ قُدّ كالسّيْ

    رِ وقد سارَ وساروا

    It is a journey cut like a leather

    strap: he went on, and they went on.

  3. فنهارُ البينِ لا كا

    نَ نهارٌ ونُهارُ

    The day of parting—may it never

    be!—is a day and a bustard chick.

  4. وسواءٌ أدَنا المن

    زلُ أم شطّ المَزارُ

    It is all the same whether the dwelling

    draws near, or the place of visitation lies far away.

  5. أنا في القربِ وفي البع

    دِ فريدٌ لا أُزارُ

    I am, in nearness and in

    distance, alone; no one visits me.

  6. والذي أشكوهُ في الحا

    لَيْنِ ما عنكَ اصطبارُ

    And what I lament in both

    states is that I cannot bear being apart from you.

  7. في مقامٍ حسراتٌ

    في الرحيلِ الإدّكارُ

    In staying, regrets;

    in departure, remembrance.

  8. ومن البينِ ولا بي

    ن انعطافٌ وازْوِرارُ

    From parting, and even without

    parting, come inclination and aversion.

  9. ليس لي فيكَ عِذارٌ

    ليس لي عنك اعتذارُ

    In loving you, I have no bridle;

    I have no excuse for turning from you.

  10. إن تناءت فدخان

    أو تدانتْ فشرارُ

    If far away, then smoke;

    or if near, then sparks.

  11. ثمّ لي في كعبةِ المرْ

    بَعِ حجٌّ واعتِمارُ

    Then, at the Kaaba of the spring

    encampment, I make a pilgrimage and a lesser pilgrimage.

  12. حيثُ من قلبيَ هدْيٌ

    ومن الدّمْعِ جُمارُ

    There my heart supplies the sacrificial offering,

    and my tears, the pebbles for stoning.

  13. ورسومٌ زَجَروها

    أين بالزجرِ انزجارُ

    And ruined traces they rebuked—

    where is any yielding to rebuke?

  14. صدقوا في الخِيفِ خَيفٌ

    ومن النَفْرِ نِفارُ

    They spoke truly: in al-Khayf there is fear,

    and from departure comes flight.

  15. يا غزالاً راغَ كالثع

    لبِ والقلبُ وِجارُ

    O gazelle who dodged like a

    fox, while my heart is your den!

  16. في ظباءٍ فُحْنَ طِيباً

    أصَوارٍ أم صُوارُ

    Among gazelles fragrant with perfume—

    is it a musk-pouch, or a herd?

  17. قيل لي إنك نوار

    أصابوا وبوارُ

    They told me you were a blossom;

    they were right—and ruin, too.

  18. فوقَ خديكَ دليل

    إن نهديك ثمارُ

    The proof is upon your cheeks:

    your breasts are indeed fruit.

  19. ما انْتَفى الرُمّانُ إلا

    وتبدّى الجُلّنَارُ

    No sooner did the pomegranate vanish

    than the pomegranate-blossom appeared.

  20. وعناقيدُ من الشع

    رِ لها الريقُ عُقارُ

    And clusters of

    hair, whose wine is your saliva.

  21. لم أذُقْ من ذلك ال

    خمرَ فمن أينَ الخُمارُ

    I have not tasted that

    wine; whence, then, the hangover?

  22. وبجفنيك غِرارٌ

    من كرًى وهْو غُرارُ

    And in your eyelids is a trace

    of sleep—and it is deceit.

  23. إنما العارُ على مَنْ

    ما لَهُ في الحبّ عارُ

    Disgrace falls only upon one

    who has borne no disgrace for love.

  24. كلُّ فضلٍ في سوى الفا

    ضِلِ فضْلٌ مُستَعارُ

    Every excellence in anyone but the

    excellent one is borrowed excellence.

  25. ربما جاراه أقوا

    مٌ الى شأوٍ فَخاروا

    At times, people have raced him

    toward a goal, only to falter.

  26. مثلَ ما يستبقُ القُرَّ

    حُ يوماً والمِهارُ

    Like full-grown horses racing

    one day with foals.

  27. بل كما تَبْغي مدى اليُمْ

    نى الى الفضلِ السِيارُ

    Rather, like leather straps seeking the reach of the right

    hand toward generosity.

  28. بل كما تطلُبُ شأوَ الس

    حْبِ في الأرضِ الغِبارُ

    Rather, as the reach of the

    clouds is sought by dust upon the earth.

  29. هو والعلياءُ دامَ الش

    مْلُ نارٌ ومَنارُ

    He and high glory—may their

    union endure—are fire and a beacon.

  30. فضلُه في الجيدِ عقدٌ

    وعلى الزّنْدِ سِوارُ

    His excellence is a necklace at the throat,

    and a bracelet upon the wrist.

  31. كوكبٌ فيه هِدايا

    تٌ وأنواءٌ غِرارُ

    A star that holds

    guidance and brief rain-showers.

  32. ورياضٌ ربّما قل

    تَ احمرار واصفِرارُ

    And gardens of which you might

    say: redness and yellowness.

  33. قم فقد مرّ بك الن

    وم وفاجاك النهارُ

    Rise! Sleep has passed over you,

    and daylight has taken you unawares.

  34. هذهِ ويْكَ يَخورُ ال

    عقْلُ عنْها وتحارُ

    These—alas!—are beyond the

    mind's strength, and you are bewildered.

  35. وبحارٌ لك ما تُعْ

    رَفُ هاتيكَ البحارُ

    And seas are yours, though

    those seas are unknown.

  36. ماؤها عذْبٌ وفي ال

    عذبِ لجينٌ ونُضارُ

    Their water is sweet; in that

    sweet water are silver and gold.

  37. بِدَرَ الجودِ لها من

    بينِ كفّيْهِ ابتِدارُ

    Purses of generosity rush

    forth from between his palms.

  38. وعلى قطبِ فَتاوي

    هِ منَ الشرعِ المَدارُ

    And upon the axis of his legal rulings

    turns the sacred law.

  39. يعجُزُ الإسهابَ ما يب

    لُغُ فيها الاختِصارُ

    Even prolixity cannot attain what

    brevity achieves in them.

  40. يوضِحُ الغِرّةَ حيثُ ال

    أمرُ لَبْسٌ واغْتِرارُ

    He lays bare heedlessness where the

    matter is confusion and deception.

  41. بكلامٍ ما على صدْ

    رِ معانيهِ صَدارُ

    With speech—upon the breast

    of its meanings there is no bodice.

  42. أبداَ يَرْوي فيُرْوى

    غُلَلٌ منه حِرارُ

    Ever he narrates, and thereby are quenched

    burning thirsts through him.

  43. في انتظام للأساني

    د حَلاّهُ الانتشارُ

    In an ordering of transmission

    chains that dissemination has adorned.

  44. يُجْتَنى منه بأعلى

    دوحةِ الضبطِ ثِمارُ

    From him are gathered, high upon

    the spreading tree of precision, fruits.

  45. حاجزٌ فيه على منْ

    يتعاطاه احْتِجارُ

    There is a barrier in it: upon whoever

    undertakes it falls a restriction.

  46. وكذاك الطّرْف للأخ

    يارِ وعْثٌ وخِبارُ

    And likewise the noble steed, for the best

    men, is rough ground and yielding soil.

  47. وله في آل ساسا

    نَ إذا عُدّ الفَخارُ

    He has, in the house of Sāsān,

    when glorious deeds are counted,

  48. نسبٌ صحّحَهُ كس

    رى فما فيهِ انْكِسارُ

    a lineage confirmed by Kisrā;

    there is no break in it.

  49. لمعاليهِ على شأ

    وِ معاليهِ الخِيارُ

    His rivals have their choice

    as to the reach of his lofty deeds.

  50. والذي وصف علاه

    للأسانيدِ شِعارُ

    And the one who described his exalted rank

    is an emblem of transmission chains.

  51. لم يمرّ العيدُ إلا

    بندًى منْك يُمارُ

    The festival never passed without

    bounty from you being carried as provision.

  52. حيث للبُدْنِ وللأب

    دانِ بحرٌ وافتِخارُ

    Where sacrificial camels and

    bodies find a sea, and glory.

  53. يا جواداً هزّهُ الفضْ

    لُ وأرساهُ الوَقارُ

    O generous one, whom excellence stirs,

    and whom dignity anchors!

  54. فاستعارَ النارَ من أح

    شاءِ قومٍ تُسْتَعارُ

    So he borrowed fire from the

    entrails of folk—a fire to be borrowed.

  55. طُلْ فللحاسِد أيامٌ

    بلا طيبٍ قِصارُ

    Live long: the envier has days

    short and devoid of joy.