Sol 6.1

  1. للناس عِيدٌ وَلي عِيدانِ في العِيدِ

    إذا رأيْتُكَ يا ابن السَّادَةِ الصِّيدِ

    People have one festival; I have two within the festival,

    When I see you, O son of proud lords.

  2. إذا هُمُ عَيَّدُوا عِيديْن في سَنَةٍ

    كانت بوجهك لي أيامُ تَعْييدِ

    When they celebrate two festivals in a year,

    With your face, my days become days of celebration.

  3. قالوا اسْتَهَلَّ هِلالُ الفطْر قلتُ لهم

    وجْهُ الأمير هلالٌ غيرُ مفْقُودِ

    They said, “The crescent of Eid al-Fitr has appeared”; I said to them,

    “The prince's face is a crescent never absent.”

  4. بدا الهلالُ الذي اسْتقبْلتُ طَلْعَته

    مُقابَلاً بهلالٍ منك مَسْعودِ

    The crescent whose rising I welcomed appeared,

    Facing an auspicious crescent in you.

  5. أجْدِدْ وأخْلِقْ كلا العيديْنِ في نِعَمٍ

    تأبَى لهنَّ الليالي غير تجديدِ

    Renew and wear out both festivals amid blessings,

    For which the nights allow nothing but renewal.

  6. إن قاد صنُوُكَ جَيْشَ العيدِ عُقْبَتَهُ

    فما اخْتَلَلْتَ لفقْدِ الجيش في العيدِ

    If your brother led the festival's army in his turn,

    You were not diminished by lacking the army at the festival.

  7. بلْ لوْ تَوَحَّدْتَ دون النَّاسِ كُلّهمُ

    كنتَ الجميع وكانوا كالمواحِيدِ

    Indeed, if you stood alone apart from all people,

    You would be the whole, and they like isolated individuals.

  8. عليك أُبَّهَةُ التأمِيرِ واقِعَةٌ

    لا بالجنود ولا بالضُّمَّرِ القُودِ

    The splendor of command rests upon you,

    Not through soldiers, nor through lean, long-necked steeds.

  9. أنتَ الأميرُ الذي ولَّتْهُ هِمَّتُهُ

    بغير عهدٍ من السلطان معْهُودِ

    You are the prince whom his own high resolve appointed,

    Without a recognized commission from the sovereign.

  10. ولايةً ليس يجْبي المالَ صاحِبُها

    بل الرَّغِيبَيْنِ من حَمْدٍ وتَمجيدِ

    A lordship whose holder collects not wealth,

    But the two prized things: praise and glorification.

  11. هل الأميرُ سِوَى المُعْدِي بنائله

    على عَداءِ صُرُوفِ البيض والسُّودِ

    Is a prince anything but one who aids with his gifts

    Against the hostile turns of days white and black?

  12. وأنتَ تُعْدِي عليها كلَّما ظَلَمَتْ

    يا ابْنَ الكرام بِرِفْدٍ منك مَرْفُودِ

    And you give aid against them whenever they oppress,

    O son of the noble, with succor supplied by you.

  13. فَلْيصنع العَزْلُ والتَّأميرُ ما صنعا

    فأنت ما عشْتَ والي إمْرَةِ الجُودِ

    Let dismissal and appointment do whatever they may:

    For as long as you live, you rule the realm of generosity.

  14. تِلْكَ الإمارةُ أعْلاها مُؤَمِّرُهَا

    أنْ يملِكَ الناسُ منها حَلَّ مَعْقُودِ

    That lordship its bestower has raised too high

    For people to possess the power to undo its knot.

  15. عَطيَّةُ اللّه لا يَبْتَزُّهَا أحَدٌ

    ليستْ كشيء مُعادٍ ثمَّ مَردُودِ

    A gift from God that no one can wrest away,

    Not like something restored and then returned.

  16. لو كنتَ أزمانَ وَأْدِ الناسِ ما وَأَدُوا

    أحْيا سَماحُك فيهمْ كُلَّ مَوْؤودِ

    Had you lived when people buried others alive, they would not have done so;

    Your generosity would have revived every one buried alive among them.

  17. فما يضرُّك ما دار الزمانُ به

    وأنت حَالَيْكَ في سِرْبالِ مَحْسُودِ

    Nothing brought round by time can harm you,

    While, in either state, you wear the robe of one envied.

  18. هذا على أنه لا فَرْقَ بينكما

    وَحُقَّ ذلك والعُودانِ من عُودِ

    This, though there is no difference between you two—

    And rightly so, for the two branches spring from one stem.

  19. أضْحى أخوكَ على رَغْمِ العِدَا جَبَلاً

    ينُوءُ منك بركْنٍ غير مَهْدودِ

    Despite the enemies, your brother has become a mountain,

    Bearing up with you as an unbroken pillar.

  20. تَظاهَرَانِ على تَقْوَى إلهِكُما

    كلا الظَّهيرَيْنِ مَعْضُودٌ بمعضُودِ

    You support each other in reverence for your God;

    Each of the two allies is upheld by an ally upheld.

  21. فالشَّمْلُ مُجْتَمِعٌ والشِّكْلُ مؤْتَلِفٌ

    والأزْرُ بالأزر مَشْدُودٌ بمشدودِ

    So your company is united, and kindred natures are in harmony,

    And strength is bound to strength, the fast-bound to the fast-bound.

  22. والمِرتَّانِ إذا ما الْتَفَّتا وَفَتا

    بمُسْتَمِرٍّ من الأمْراسِ مَمْسُودِ

    And the two strands, when intertwined, suffice

    For a stout, tightly twisted rope.

  23. ما زادَ كلُّ ظَهِيرٍ أمْرَ صاحِبهِ

    بأمْرِهِ غير تَثْبِيتٍ وتأْبيدِ

    Each ally has added nothing to his companion's standing

    Through his own but firmness and permanence.

  24. كَلاً ولا زاد كلٌ مَجْدَ صاحبه

    بمجدِهِ غير تَوْطِيدٍ وتشْيِيدِ

    No indeed; nor has either added to his companion's glory

    Through his own glory but consolidation and elevation.

  25. فالعِزُّ عِزُّكما والمجْدُ مَجْدُكما

    ومَنْ أبَى ذاك مَوْطُوءُ اللَّغَاديدِ

    Thus the honor is yours together, and the glory yours together;

    And whoever rejects this has his throat trampled.

  26. كُلٌّ يرى لأخيه فَضْلَ سُؤْددِهِ

    وكنْتُما أهْلَ تفْضِيلٍ وتَسْويدِ

    Each acknowledges the excellence of his brother's nobility,

    And you both have been worthy of distinction and lordship.

  27. مات التَّحاسُدُ والأضغانُ بَيْنَكما

    فماتَ كلُّ حَسُودٍ موْتَ مَكْمُودِ

    Mutual envy and rancor have died between you,

    So every envier died the death of one consumed by grief.

  28. وَرُدَّ كلُّ تَميمٍ كان ينْفُثُهُ

    راقي الوُشاةِ فَعَضُّوا بالجلاميدِ

    Every charm was repelled that was breathed out

    By the slanderers' spell-worker; they bit upon hard stones.

  29. لا زال شمْلَ اجْتِمَاعٍ شَمْلُ أمرِكما

    وشمْلُ أمْر الأعادِي شَمْلَ تَبْدِيدِ

    May your affairs remain forever joined in unity,

    And your enemies' affairs be scattered apart.

  30. إن قِيلَ سَيْفَان يأبى الغِمْدُ جمْعَهُما

    فأنْتُما مُنْصَلا سَلٍّ وتجْريدِ

    If it is said, “A scabbard refuses to hold two swords together,”

    Then you are two blades for drawing and unsheathing.

  31. لا تُحْوَجانِ إلى غِمْدٍ يضُمُّكما

    كِلاكُما الدَّهرَ سَيْفٌ غير مغْمُودِ

    Neither of you needs a scabbard to hold you;

    Each of you is forever a sword unsheathed.

  32. مُجَرَّدانِ على الأعْداءِ قد رَغِبا

    عن الجفُون إلى هامِ الصَّناديدِ

    Both bared against the enemy, you have turned away

    From scabbards to the heads of champions.

  33. مُؤلَّفَان لنصر الله قد شُغِلا

    عن التَّباغي بطاغُوتٍ ومِرِّيدِ

    United in support of God, you are occupied

    With tyrants and rebels, not with hostility toward each other.

  34. ما في الحُسَامَيْن مأمُورٌ بصاحبه

    عليكما بِرِقابِ العُنَّدِ الحِيدِ

    Neither of the two keen blades is commanded against its fellow;

    Go, both of you, for the necks of the stubborn and wayward.

  35. للسَّيْفِ عن قَطْعِ سَيْفٍ مثْلِهِ ذَكَرٍ

    مَنْدُوحَةٌ في رقاب ذاتِ تَأْوِيدِ

    For a sword, instead of cutting a well-tempered sword like itself,

    There is ample scope among crooked necks.

  36. فَلْيُعْنَ بِالمَثلِ المضْرُوب غَيْرُكما

    فليس مَعْناكُما فيه بموْجُودِ

    Let others be meant by the proverb cited,

    For your case is not to be found in it.

  37. لا تَعْجَبَا من خِصَامي عنْكُما مَثَلاً

    قدْ أبَّدَتْهُ الليالِي أيَّ تأبيدِ

    Do not marvel that I dispute on your behalf a proverb

    That the nights have made utterly enduring.

  38. هذا لِذاك وهذا بعْدهُ قَسَمٌ

    بِمَشْهَدٍ من جَلال اللّه مشْهودِ

    This is for that; and what follows is an oath,

    By a witnessed manifestation of God's majesty:

  39. ما اليومُ يمْضي وعيني غَيْرُ فائزةٍ

    بِحَظِّهَا منْك في عُمْري بِمعْدُودِ

    A day that passes while my eye has not won

    Its share of you is not counted in my lifetime.

  40. لكِنْ تطاوَلَتِ الشكْوى بِقائدَتي

    فكنتُ شهْراً وحالي حالُ مَصْفُودِ

    But sickness long afflicted my guiding eye,

    And for a month my condition was that of a fettered man.

  41. شُغِلْتُ عنك بِعُوَّارٍ أكابِدُهُ

    لا بالملاهي ولا ماءِ العَناقيدِ

    An eye ailment I struggled with kept me from you,

    Not diversions, nor the juice of grape clusters.

  42. ولو قَعَدْتُ بلا عذْرٍ لَمَهَّدَ لي

    جَميلُ رَأيك عُذْري أيَّ تَمْهِيدِ

    Even had I stayed away without excuse, my excuse would have been prepared for me

    By your gracious judgment, prepared most thoroughly.

  43. قاسيْتُ بعدَك لا قاسيَت مِثْلَهُما

    نَهارَ شكْوى يُبَاري ليْلَ تَسْهِيدِ

    I endured in your absence—may you never endure their like—

    A day of sickness vying with a night of sleeplessness.

  44. أُمْسِي وأُصْبِحُ في ظَلْماءَ من بَصَري

    فَما نَهَارِيَ مِنْ لَيْلي بمَحْدُودِ

    Evening and morning find me in the darkness of my sight,

    So my day is not marked off from my night.

  45. كَأَنَّني منْ كِلا يَوْمِي وليْلَته

    في سَرْمَدٍ من ظلام الليل ممدودِ

    As though, through both my day and its night, I were

    In an eternity of night-darkness, drawn out.

  46. إذا سَمعتُ بِذِكْرِ الشمْسِ آسَفَنِي

    فَصَعَّدَتْ زَفَراتي أيَّ تصْعِيدٍ

    Whenever I hear the sun mentioned, it grieves me,

    And my sighs mount ever higher.

  47. وليس فَقْدُ ضِياء الشمس أَجْزَعَني

    بل فَقدُ وجهك أوْهَى رُكْنَ مَجْلُودي

    Yet it is not the loss of sunlight that has distressed me;

    Rather, losing your face has weakened the pillar of my endurance.

  48. لا يَطْمَئنُّ بجْنبِي لِينُ مُضْطَجَعٍ

    وما فراشُ أخي شكْوى بممهودِ

    The softness of a resting-place brings my side no repose,

    And the bed of a sufferer is not comfortably spread.

  49. أرْعى النُّجومَ وأنَّى لي بِرِعْيَتِهَا

    وطَرَفُ عيْني في أسْرٍ وتَقْيِيدِ

    I watch the stars—but how can I watch them,

    When my eye's gaze is captive and fettered?

  50. وإنَّ مَنْ يَتَمَنَّى أن يُوَاتِيَهُ

    رَعْيُ النُّجوم لَمَجْهُودُ المجاهيدِ

    And whoever wishes that he might be granted

    The watching of stars is the most afflicted of sufferers.

  51. وضاقَت الأرْضُ بي طُرَّاً بما رَحُبَتْ

    فصارَ حَظِّي منْها مِثْلَ مَلْحُودي

    And the whole earth, wide as it is, closed in on me,

    So my share of it became like my burial niche.

  52. فلم تَكُنْ راحَتي إلا مُلاحَظَتي

    إيَّاكَ عن فكْر قلْب جدِّ مَجْهُودِ

    My only relief was my contemplating

    You through the thoughts of a sorely exhausted heart.

  53. وكمْ دَعَوْتُك والعَزَّاءُ تَعْصبُني

    وأنتَ غايةُ مَدْعَى كلِّ منْجُودِ

    How often I called upon you while hardship bound me,

    And you are the ultimate appeal of everyone in distress.

  54. وقد تبدلتُ من بَلْواي عافيةً

    بحمْد رَبٍّ على الحاليْنِ مَحْمُودِ

    I have exchanged my affliction for well-being,

    With praise to a Lord praised in both conditions.

  55. فافتح لعبدك بابَ العُذْر إنَّ لهُ

    قدْماً بلُطفكَ باباً غير مسدُودِ

    So open for your servant the door of excuse; for him

    There has long been, through your kindness, a door never shut.

  56. يا من إذا البابُ أعْيا فتْحُ مُقْفَلِهِ

    ألقى الدُّهاةُ إليْه بالمقاليدِ

    O you to whom, when a door's lock defies opening,

    The resourceful hand over the keys.

  57. بنَجم رَأْيك تُجْلَى كُلُّ داجيةٍ

    يُبَلَّدُ النجْمُ فيها كُلَّ تَبْلِيدِ

    By the star of your judgment every darkness is dispelled,

    In which the star itself is utterly baffled.

  58. فإنْ تماريْتَ في عُذْري وَصحَّتِه

    فاجْعَلْه غُفْرَانَ ذنْب غير مجْحُودِ

    If you dispute my excuse and its soundness,

    Then let it be forgiveness of an offense I do not deny.

  59. وما تعاقبُ إنْ عاقبْتَ من رَجُلٍ

    بسَوْطه دُونَ سَوْط النَّقْم مَجْلُودِ

    Nor, if you punish, would you punish a man

    Already flogged with his own whip, apart from vengeance's whip.

  60. حسْبي بجُرْمي إلى نفْسي مُعاقبةً

    إن كنتُ أطردْتُ نفسي غير مطرودِ

    My offense against myself is enough punishment for me,

    If I have driven myself away, though no one drove me out.

  61. فإنْ عَفَوْتَ فما تنْفَكُّ مُرْتَهناً

    شكْراً بتقليد نُعْمَى بعْدَ تقليدِ

    If you pardon, you will always hold in pledge

    My thanks, for bestowing favor after favor.

  62. تُطَوِّقُ المَنَّ يُوهي الطَّود مَحْملُهُ

    وإنَّهُ لَخَفيفُ الطوْق في الجِيدِ

    You make a necklace of favor, whose burden would weaken a mountain,

    Yet it is a light collar upon the neck.

  63. تَمُنُّ ثم تَفُكُّ المنَّ مجْتَهِداً

    عن الرَقابِ فيأبى غيْرَ تَوْكِيدِ

    You bestow favors, then earnestly strive to loosen their binding

    From necks, but it refuses anything save firmer binding.

  64. وإن سطوْتَ فكَمْ قَوَّمْتَ ذا أَوَدٍ

    تَقْوِيمَ لَدْنٍ من الخطِّيِّ أمْلُودِ

    And if you strike, how often you have straightened one bent,

    As one straightens a pliant, supple Khatti spear.

  65. يا ابْنَ الأكارم خذْها مِدْحَةً صدرَتْ

    عن موْرِدٍ لك صَافٍ غيْرِ موْرُودِ

    O son of the noblest, take this praise-song, which came

    From a spring clear for you, unfrequented.

  66. لا فضْل فيه سِوَى ما أنْت مُفْضِلَهُ

    فَشُرْبُ غيرك منْه شُرْبُ تَصْرِيدِ

    It has no surplus except what you leave over,

    So anyone else's drinking from it is but a scant draught.

  67. مَكْنُونُ وُدٍّ تَوَخَّاك الضَّمِيرُ به

    ولم يزاحِمْكَ فيه شِرْكُ مَوْدُودِ

    A treasured affection with which my heart has singled you out,

    And no other beloved's share has crowded you within it.

  68. تَوْحِيدُ مَدْحِك دون الناس كلِّهمُ

    سِيَّانِ عنْدي وإخْلاصي وتوْحِيدي

    Devoting praise to you alone, apart from all people,

    Is to me the same as my sincere devotion and my faith in God's oneness.

  69. وما قَصَدْتُ سِوَى حَظِّي ومَسْعَدَتي

    ولسْت في ذاك محْفُوفاً بتَفْنِيدِ

    I have sought only my own good fortune and happiness,

    And no reproach surrounds me for that.

  70. أنت الذي كلَّما رُمْتُ المديح له

    أجابني وضميري غيْرُ مَكْدُودِ

    You are the one whose praise, whenever I seek it,

    Answers me, while my mind remains unwearied.

  71. بَحْرِي بِبَحْرِك مَمْدُودٌ فحُقَّ له

    ألّا يُرى الدَّهْرَ إلا غير مَثْمُودِ

    My sea is replenished by your sea, and so it deserves

    Never to be seen, through all time, except undrained.

  72. أمْدَدْتَ شِعْري بأَمْدَادٍ مظاهَرَةٍ

    من المناقب لا تُحْصَى بِتعديدِ

    You have supplied my poetry with mutually supporting reinforcements

    Of virtues that cannot be counted by enumeration.

  73. وما رَمَيْتُكَ من وُدِّي بخاطئةٍ

    مِنِّي ولا فَلْتَةٍ عن غير تَسْدِيدِ

    No shot of my affection that I aimed at you has missed,

    Nor has it been a slip from me, made without careful aim.