Sol 6.1

  1. ومن العجائب يا أبا الفياضِ

    تبديلُك الإقبالَ بالإعراضِ

    And among the wonders, O Abū al-Fayyāḍ,

    is your exchanging welcome for rejection.

  2. أعزِزْ عليَّ بَما رأيتَ فإنه

    مرضٌ بُليتَ به من الأمراض

    How grievous to me is what you have decided, for it is

    an illness with which you have been afflicted.

  3. ما إن أسيتُ لأن ظلمك هاضني

    لكن أسيتُ لرأيكَ المنْهاض

    I did not grieve because your injustice broke me,

    but grieved for your broken judgment.

  4. يا من صِناعتُه الدعاءُ إلى العُلا

    ناقضتَ في فعلَيْك أيّ نِقاض

    O you whose craft is calling others to nobility,

    how utterly your two actions contradict each other!

  5. أمِنَ العُلا تركُ الوفاءِ لصاحبٍ

    لم تَقْضِه النكْراءَ عن إقراض

    Is it noble to abandon loyalty to a friend,

    when your foul deed is no repayment for a loan?

  6. عجباً لحَضَّاض الكرام على الذي

    هو فيه مُحتاجٌ إلى حَضَّاض

    How strange: one who spurs the noble toward that

    in which he himself needs someone to spur him!

  7. وصفَ المكارم وهو فيها زاهدٌ

    ورأى الجميلَ وفيه عنه تَغَاضي

    He described noble virtues, though indifferent to them,

    and recognized goodness, yet turned a blind eye to it.

  8. لم ألقَ كالشعراءِ أكثر حارِضاً

    وأشدَّ معْتبةً على الحُرَّاض

    Never have I found so many corrupt men as among poets,

    or such fierce reproach against the corrupt.

  9. كم فيهمُ من آمرٍ برشيدةٍ

    لم يأْتِها ومُرَغِّبٍ رفَّاض

    How many among them command a righteous deed

    they never do, and urge what they themselves reject!

  10. يا حَسْرتا لمودَّةٍ أدبيةٍ

    لم نفترق عنها افتراقَ تراضي

    Alas for a literary friendship,

    from which we did not part by mutual consent.

  11. ليس العتابُ بنافعٍ في قاطعٍ

    أعيا المشيبُ تتابعَ المقراض

    Reproach is useless with one who cuts ties;

    gray hair has defeated the shears' repeated snips.

  12. الآن أيقنَ بعد غَدْرِكَ رائدي

    أنّ البروقَ كواذبُ الإيماض

    Now, after your treachery, my scout is certain

    that lightning lies in its flashes.

  13. خذْ من حِبالك ما نكثتَ مُصاحِباً

    يا صاحبَ الإنكاثِ والإنقاض

    Take with you whatever cords you have unraveled,

    O master of breaking and undoing bonds.

  14. فيما أفاد بك الزمانُ من النُهى

    عِوضٌ وفاءٌ منك للمُعتاض

    In the wisdom time has imparted through you

    lies ample compensation from you for one who takes it in exchange.

  15. والودُّ حقٌ ما رأيتُ أداءَهُ

    مُتَيَسِّراً لمطالبٍ بتقاضي

    And affection is a due whose payment I have never found

    readily obtainable by a claimant pressing for payment.

  16. جَمَحَ الغِنى بك جَمْحةً مذْكورَةً

    فادفع أعنَّتَهُ إلى الرُّواض

    Wealth has bolted with you in a memorable rush;

    so hand its reins to the trainers.

  17. وا سَوْأَتا إن ضاقَ ذَرْعُك بالغنى

    عِند ادِّراع قميصه الفضْفاض

    Oh, shame, if you find wealth too much to bear

    when you don its loose-fitting shirt!

  18. رتَّبْتَ قدْرَك دونَ ما مُلِّكتَه

    لا ظُلمَ أنت عليه أعدل قاضي

    You have ranked your worth below what you were given to own;

    there is no injustice—you are its fairest judge.

  19. ما سُخْطُنا لك خُطةً مُسْخُوطةً

    تُضحي وأنت بها لنفسك راضي

    Why should we resent, for your sake, a detestable course

    when you remain content with it for yourself?

  20. أإن اجتنيتَ جنَى الكرام لقيتَني

    بتجهُّمِ البيضاءِ نبْذَ بياض

    Because you have harvested the fruits of the noble, do you meet me

    with the white snake's scowl as it sheds its whiteness?

  21. يا جانيَ الثمر اللذيذ مذاقةً

    ما لي أراك كآكل الحمّاض

    O gatherer of fruit delicious to taste,

    why do I see you like someone eating sorrel?

  22. لا تُزهَيَنَّ بما مَلكتَ فلم تكن

    من قَبْلها حَرَضاً من الأحراض

    Do not grow vain over what you possess, for you were not

    before it a worthless wretch among the worthless.

  23. قدْ كان قبرُ أبي شُراعَة مُطلِقاً

    لك أن تتيهَ ببحرِهِ الفيَّاض

    Abū Shurāʿa's grave had already given you leave

    to boast of his overflowing sea.

  24. أبديتَ لي حبْلَ التكبُّرِ فاحتقبْ

    عدلاً تبيتُ له بليل مخاض

    You have shown me arrogance's pregnancy; now shoulder

    a load that will keep you in labor through the night.

  25. وَلَما هجوْتُك بل وعظتُك إنني

    لا أجعل الأعراض كالأغراض

    And I have not yet lampooned you, but admonished you, for I

    do not treat people's honor as targets.

  26. فاكفُفْ سِهامَك عن أخيك فإنما

    آسفتَه فرمَاك بالمِعراض

    So hold your arrows back from your brother: it was only

    because you angered him that he shot you with a blunt arrow.

  27. ومتى هجَوْتَ مُعاتِباً لك مُنصِفاً

    فلديهِ عزم في هجائك ماضي

    And whenever you lampoon someone who reproaches you fairly,

    he has a keen-edged resolve to lampoon you.

  28. واعلم بأنك إن وردْتَ على الذي

    نهنهتَ عنه وردْتَ شرَّ حياض

    And know that if you approach what

    you were restrained from, you come to the worst of watering pools.

  29. ومتى نَفَحْتَ من الهِجاء بنفحةٍ

    عالت فريضتُها على الفُرَّاض

    And whenever you breathe out a whiff of satire,

    its allotted share will overwhelm the reckoners of inheritance.

  30. لستُ الحليمَ عن السَّفيه أخي الخنا

    كلّا ولا الواني عن الركَّاض

    I am not forbearing toward the fool, that brother of obscenity;

    no indeed, nor do I lag behind a tireless runner.

  31. قد جرَّبَتْ منّي الوقائع باسلاً

    أبقى الزَمانُ به نُدوبَ عِضاض

    Battles have proved me a valiant man,

    on whom time has left the scars of biting.

  32. أنا من يرى المكوى أقلَّ هِنائهِ

    ويقابلُ الأخلالَ بالأحْماض

    I am one who deems the cautery the mildest of his salves,

    and matches sweet grazing with sour grazing.

  33. فليبْرأ الجَرْبَى فلستُ كمن لقُوا

    ما أبعد المكْوَى من الخضْخاض

    So let the scabby be cured, for I am not like those they have met;

    how far the cautery is from liquid tar!

  34. أنا من سَمِعتَ به وحسْبُك خِبرةً

    بأخيك ذاك المُبرمِ النقَّاض

    I am the one you have heard of; you know enough

    of your brother, that binder and unraveler.

  35. فمتى حَلمتُ لقيتَ أحنفَ دَهرِهِ

    ومتى جهلتُ مُنيتَ بالبرَّاض

    So whenever I am forbearing, you meet the Aḥnaf of his age;

    and whenever I act rashly, you are afflicted with al-Barrāḍ.

  36. فاعذِرْ أخاك على الوعيدِ فإنما

    أنذرتُ قبل الرمي بالإنباض

    So excuse your brother for his threat, for I have only

    warned before shooting by twanging the bowstring.

  37. أنذرتُ نبلي أنها إن أُرسلتْ

    لم تُبقِ باقيةً من الأعراض

    I have warned of my arrows: if they are loosed,

    they will leave no shred of honor remaining.

  38. واعلمْ وُقيتَ الجهل أن خساسةٌ

    بطرَ الغِنَى ومذلَّةَ الأنفاض

    And know—may you be spared ignorance—that baseness is

    arrogance in wealth and abasement in destitution.