Sol 6.1

  1. أَأَحورُ عَن قَصدي وَقَد بَرَحَ الخَفا

    وَوَقَفتُ مِن عُمري القَصيرِ عَلى شَفا

    Shall I turn back from my purpose, now that concealment has lifted,

    and I have reached the brink of my short life?

  2. وَأَرى شُؤونَ العَينِ تُمسِكُ ماءَها

    وَلَقَبلَ ما حَكَتِ السَحابَ الوُكَّفا

    And I see the eye’s tear ducts holding back their water,

    though once they had resembled the rain-pouring clouds.

  3. وَأَخالُ ذاكَ لِعِبرَةٍ عَرَضَت لَها

    مِن قَسوَةٍ في القَلبِ أَشبَهتِ الصَفا

    And I think that has befallen them as a lesson,

    from a hardness in the heart resembling smooth rock.

  4. وَلَقَلَّ لي طولُ البُكاءِ لِهَفوَتي

    فَلَرُبَّما شَفَعَ البُكاءُ لِمَن هَفا

    And for me, long weeping over my lapse is all too little;

    for weeping may intercede for one who has erred.

  5. إِنَّ المَعاصِيَ لا تُقيمُ بِمَنزِلٍ

    إِلّا لِتَجعَلَ مِنهُ قاعاً صَفصَفا

    Indeed, sins never settle in a dwelling

    except to turn it into a bare, level plain.

  6. وَلَو أَنَّني داوَيتُ مَعطَبَ دائِها

    بِمَراهِمِ التَقوى لَوافَقتِ الشِفا

    And had I treated the deadly harm of their disease

    with the salves of piety, I would have found healing,

  7. وَلَعِفتُ مَورِدَها المَشوبَ بِرَنقِها

    وَغَسَلتُ رَينَ القَلبِ في عَينِ الصَفا

    and shunned their watering place, tainted by their murk,

    and washed the heart’s rust in the spring of purity,

  8. وَهَزَمتُ جَحفَلَ غَيِّها بِإِنابَةٍ

    وَسَلَلتُ مِن نَدَمٍ عَلَيها مُرهَفا

    and routed the mighty host of their error through repentance,

    and drawn from remorse for them a keen-edged sword,

  9. وَهَجَرتُ دُنيا لَم تَزَل غَدّارَةً

    بِمُؤَمِّليها المُمحِضينَ لَها الوَفا

    and forsaken a world that has always been treacherous

    to those who hope in it and offer it unalloyed loyalty.

  10. سَحَقَتهُمُ وَدِيارَهُم سَحقَ الرَحا

    فَعَلَيهُمُ وَعَلى دِيارِهُم العَفا

    It ground them and their homes as a millstone grinds;

    so dust lies upon them and upon their homes.

  11. وَلَقَد يُخافُ عَلَيهِمُ مِن رَبِّهِم

    يَومَ الجَزاءِ النارَ إِلّا إِن عَفا

    And indeed, what is feared for them from their Lord

    on the Day of Recompense is the Fire—unless He pardons.

  12. إِنَّ الجَوادَ إِذا تَطَلَّبَ غايَةً

    بَلَغَ المَدى مِنها وَبَذَّ المُقرِفا

    Indeed, when a thoroughbred horse strives for a goal,

    it reaches the farthest bound and outstrips the crossbred horse.

  13. شَتّانَ بَينَ مُشَمِّرٍ لِمَعادِهِ

    أَبَداً وَآخَرَ لا يَزالُ مُسَوِّفا

    How far apart are one girding himself for his final return

    at all times, and another who is forever procrastinating!

  14. إِنّي دَعَوتُكَ مُلحِفاً لِتُجيرَني

    مِمّا أَخافُ فَلا تَرُدَّ المُلحِفا

    Indeed, I have called upon You insistently, that You may protect me

    from what I fear; so do not turn away the insistent supplicant.