Sol 6.1

  1. أَشاقَكَ بِالمُنتَصى مَنزِلُ

    جَلا أَهلُهُ عَنهُ وَاِستَبدَلوا

    Has a dwelling at al-Muntasa stirred your longing?

    Its people departed from it and chose another.

  2. وَجَرَّت بِهِ الريحُ أَذيالَها

    فَكَيفَ يُجاوِبُ أَو يُسأَلُ

    And the wind dragged its trailing skirts through it;

    so how can it answer, or be questioned?

  3. تَحَمَّلَ مَن كانَ يَغنى بِهِ

    وَأَقفَرَ بَعدَهُمُ المَنزِلُ

    Those who once dwelt there departed,

    and after them the dwelling lay deserted.

  4. وَصارَ مَعاناً لِوَحشِ الفَلا

    فَهاتا تَخُبُّ وَتا تُرقِلُ

    It became a haunt for the wild beasts of the wastes:

    so this one trots, and that one lopes.

  5. إِذا أَقرَضَت تُربَهُنَّ الجَنوبُ

    شَمالاً أَفاءَت بِهِ الشَمأَلُ

    When the south wind lends their dust

    to a north wind, that north wind brings it back.

  6. فَهاتانِ أَخلَقَتا رَسمَهُ

    وَلَم تَألُ هَتّانَةٌ تَهطِلُ

    So these two have worn away its traces,

    nor has a rain-cloud slackened its downpour.

  7. أَتَسأَلُ مَن لا يُجيبُ السُؤالَ

    وَهَل يَنطِقُ الخَلَقُ المُحوِلُ

    Do you question one who does not answer a question?

    And can a worn, deserted ruin speak?

  8. وَكَيفَ تَصابي الَّذي قَد أَتَت

    لَهُ أَربَعو سَنَةٍ كُمَّلُ

    And how can one play at youthful love, when he has attained

    forty full years of age?

  9. وَأَعلَمَهُ شَيبُهُ عَن هَواهُ

    وَنِعمَ البَديلُ الَّذي يُبدَلُ

    And his gray hair has warned him about his desire;

    and excellent is the substitute received in exchange!

  10. وَمالَ بِهِ عَن طَريقِ الضَلالِ

    مُحَمَّدٌ اِلصادِقُ المُرسَلُ

    And he was turned aside from the path of error

    by Muhammad, the truthful messenger.

  11. وَلَمّا رَأى اللَهُ مِن خَلقِهِ

    ضَلالاً أَتاهُم بِهِ الضُلَّلُ

    And when God saw among His creatures

    error brought upon them by the misguided,

  12. فَلَم يَعرِفوا اللَهِ في أَرضِهِ

    وَلا كَبَّروهُ وَلا هَلَّلوا

    so they did not acknowledge God upon His earth,

    nor proclaim His greatness or declare His oneness,

  13. تَنَخَّبَ مِن خَلقِهِ مُرسَلاً

    لِيَجلِسَ مِنهُم لَهُ العُمَّلُ

    He selected a messenger from among His creatures,

    so that workers from among them might sit before him.

  14. وَأَحسَنَ في لُطفِهِ مُجمِلاً

    وَمَن غَيرُهُ المُحسِنُ المُجمِلُ

    And in His kindness He graciously did good;

    and who but He is the gracious giver of good?

  15. فَرَدّوا عَلى رَبِّهِم نُصحَهُ

    وَلَم يَرتَضوهُ وَلَم يَقبَلوا

    But they rejected their Lord's counsel,

    and they neither approved it nor accepted it.

  16. وَما زالَ يَغلِبُهُم لِلهُدى

    وَأَمرُهُم الأَرذَلُ الأَسفَلُ

    And he kept overcoming them to bring them to guidance,

    while their cause was the basest and lowest.

  17. فَأَسعَدَ قَوماً بِهِ رَبُّهُم

    فَأَضحَوا وَحُكمُهُمُ الأَعدَلُ

    So their Lord blessed a people through him,

    and they came to have the most just judgment.

  18. وَميزانُ غَيرِهِمُ شائِلٌ

    وَوَزنُهُمُ الأَرجَحُ الأَثقَلُ

    And the balance of others rises,

    while their own weight is the greater, the heavier.

  19. فَآمَنتُ بِاللَهِ إِذ جاءَنا

    كِتابٌ لَهُ مُحكَمٌ مُنزَلُ

    So I believed in God when there came to us

    a Book of His, perfected and sent down.

  20. وَصَدَّقتُ أَحمَدَ وَهوَ الِّذي

    حَبانا بِهِ المُنعِمُ المُفضِلُ

    And I believed Ahmad, who is the one

    with whom the Benefactor, the Bountiful, favored us.

  21. فَسَنَّ الصَلاةَ لَنا وَالزَكاةَ

    وَبِرّاً بِذي رَحِمٍ يوصَلُ

    So he prescribed prayer for us and almsgiving,

    and kindness to kin, whose ties are maintained.

  22. وَسَنَّ الصِيامَ لَنا وَالقِيامَ

    مُوَلّى إِلى اللَهِ لا تَجهَلوا

    And he prescribed fasting for us and standing in prayer,

    directed toward God—do not be ignorant—

  23. وَحَجّاً إِلى اللَهِ في بَيتِهِ

    لِمَن كانَ ذاكَ لَهُ يَسهُلُ

    and pilgrimage to God at His House,

    for anyone for whom that is easy.

  24. وَأَمراً بِعُرفٍ وَنَهياً عَنِ ال

    مَناكِرِ في كُلِّ ما يَفعَلُ

    And enjoining what is right, and forbidding

    wrongdoing in everything one does.

  25. تَقَبَّلتُ ذلِكَ مِن عِلمِهِ

    وَما زالَ في حُكمِهِ يَعدِلُ

    I accepted that from his teaching,

    and he never ceased to be just in his judgment.

  26. وَجاهَدتُ في اللَهِ أَعداءَهُ الَ

    لَذينَ بِهِم رَبُّنا يَمحَلُ

    And for God I fought His enemies—those

    against whom our Lord plots.

  27. وَنَفَّلَنا اللَهُ أَموالَهُم

    فَنَأسُرُهُم بَعدَما نَقتُلُ

    And God granted us their wealth as spoils,

    so we take them captive after we kill.

  28. وَعِندَهُمُ أَنَّهُم ثابِتونَ

    عَلى الحَقِّ لَم يَعدُهُم مَشغَلُ

    Yet they think themselves steadfast

    upon the truth, with no distraction turning them aside.

  29. وَما يَعلَمونَ وَما يَشعُرونَ

    بِأَنَّ الجَحيمَ لَهُم تُشعَلُ

    But they do not know, and they do not perceive

    that Hell is being kindled for them.

  30. وَكَم سَيِّدٍ لَهُمُ في اللِقا

    ءِ غودِرَ في صِرَّةِ يَسعُلُ

    And how many a chieftain of theirs in battle

    was left in bitter cold, coughing!

  31. إِذا أَظلَمَ اللَيلُ مِن دونِهِ

    عَفَتهُ جَعارِ الَّتي تَقزِلُ

    When night darkens around him,

    Ja'ar, the limping hyena, visits him.

  32. وَإِن قَد أَضاءَ عَلَيهِ النَهارُ

    أَتَتهُ سَراحينُهُ العُسَّلُ

    And when daylight has shone upon him,

    his loping wolves come to him.

  33. وَإِن دَوَّمَت شَمسُهُ فَوقَهُ

    أَظَلَّتهُ غِربانُهُ الحُجَّلُ

    And when his sun hovers above him,

    his hopping crows shade him.

  34. وَآخَرَ مِنهُم حَليفِ الصَغارِ

    عَنِ السَرجِ بِالكَرِّ مُستَنزَلُ

    And another of them, a companion of humiliation,

    is brought down from the saddle by a charge,

  35. مَغيظٍ عَلى ما لِكي أَسرِهِ

    يُخالُ عَلى أَنفِهِ دُمَّلُ

    enraged over his captivity [wording unclear],

    as though a boil were upon his nose.