Sol 6.1

  1. قبلوا الطرف اطلاعا وابصروا

    نقطة المَرمى

    Kiss the eye for insight, and behold

    The point of aim.

  2. وانظروا هؤلاء عَظيما واذكروا

    انني الاعمى

    And regard these as mighty, and remember

    That I am the blind one.

  3. رددوا ابصاركم في كل ما

    حولكم يَجري

    Turn your eyes again and again over all that

    Goes on around you.

  4. حيث عين الكون ممزوجا دما

    دمعها يَجري

    Where, from the universe's eye, mingled with blood,

    Its tears flow.

  5. واجعلوا النوح اليكم بلسما

    ان يكن يبري

    And make lamentation a balm for yourselves,

    If it should heal.

  6. ثم لا تَستَنكفوا أَو تنكروا

    ذلك السهما

    Then do not disdain or deny

    That arrow.

  7. وانظروا أَخلاق سوء واذكروا

    انني الأَعمى

    And behold evil conduct, and remember

    That I am the blind one.

  8. كل يوم اسمع النوح الخَفي

    بين أَجواري

    Every day I hear the hidden lament

    Among my neighbors.

  9. حيث حل العون في النهج وَفي

    ساحة الدار

    Where the officer has arrived in the street and in

    The house's courtyard.

  10. يتبع الحر اليها يَقتَفي

    بعض اثار

    He follows the free man there, tracking

    Some traces.

  11. فاِمسَحوا دمع عَظيم ينهر

    وابنة تدمي

    So wipe away the tears of a great man being rebuked,

    And of a daughter who bleeds.

  12. وانظروا هتكا وَفَتكا واذكروا

    انني الأَعمى

    And behold violation and slaughter, and remember

    That I am the blind one.

  13. ان صوت الشعب في عبرته

    يوقف العابر

    Indeed, the people's voice in its weeping

    Stops the passerby.

  14. طمس الأَعداء في كربته

    مجده الغابر

    The enemies erased, amid its anguish,

    Its bygone glory.

  15. وَالغَريب اليوم في غربته

    عقرب آبر

    And the foreigner today, away from home,

    Is a stinging scorpion.

  16. خبروني كَم ابيا قهروا

    فاِنحنى حتما

    Tell me how many a proud man they subdued,

    So that he had no choice but to bow.

  17. وانظروا ظلما وَجورا واذكروا

    انني الاعمى

    And behold oppression and injustice, and remember

    That I am the blind one.

  18. طالما اسمعت وقع السوط لا

    كان يا وَيلاه

    How often I was made to hear the whip's crack—may it never

    Be! Oh, woe is me!

  19. ثم اصغي من رجال نبلا

    آه أو أواه

    Then I listen to noble men:

    'Ah!' or 'Alas!'

  20. لَم يَكونوا المذنبين الجهلا

    نحو من نخشاه

    They were not the ignorant wrongdoers

    Against the one we fear.

  21. صاحبوهم كي تَروا ان يستروا

    نارهم تَحمي

    Keep them company, so you may see: even if they conceal it,

    Their fire burns hot.

  22. وانظروا دمع انتحاب واذكروا

    انني الاعمى

    And behold tears of sobbing, and remember

    That I am the blind one.

  23. هَل رأَيتم عامل الأَرض سَلا

    ارضه يَمشي

    Have you seen the tiller of the soil, who has forgotten

    His land, walking away?

  24. اهمل الثور وَالقي المنجلا

    جانب الرفش

    He abandoned the ox and cast aside the sickle

    Beside the shovel,

  25. ناجيا وَالحر لا يفضي عَلى

    ضيقة العيش

    Escaping—and the free man does not speak of

    Life's hardship.

  26. اشرفوا عَن أَرضه كي تبصروا

    بعده الخصما

    Survey his land, so you may see

    The enemy after his departure.

  27. وانظروا الغربي فيها واذكروا

    انني الأَعمى

    And behold the Westerner there, and remember

    That I am the blind one.

  28. بعضنا العبد وَما البعض سِوى

    حارس القصر

    Some of us are slaves, and the others are no more than

    The palace guard.

  29. يحمل الأَثقال منهوك القوى

    في سوى النصر

    He carries burdens, his strength exhausted,

    For something other than victory.

  30. أي نصر يَرتَجيه من هَوى

    يابس الخصر

    What victory can one who has fallen hope for,

    His waist withered?

  31. قبروا عزته بل قبروا

    عقله الاسمى

    They buried his dignity—nay, they buried

    His loftiest intellect.

  32. فاِنظروا ما لست أَحصي واذكروا

    انني الاعمى

    So behold what I cannot enumerate, and remember

    That I am the blind one.