Sol 6.1

  1. أَمالِكُ إِنَّ الحُزنَ أَحلامُ حالِمٍ

    وَمَهما يَدُم فَالوَجدُ لَيسَ بِدائِمِ

    O Malik, grief is but the dreams of a dreamer;

    and however long it lasts, heartache is not everlasting.

  2. أَمالِكُ إِفراطُ الصَبابَةِ تارِكٌ

    جَناً وَاِعوِجاجاً في قَناةِ المَكارِمِ

    O Malik, excessive longing leaves

    a bend and crookedness in the spear-shaft of noble virtues.

  3. تَأَمَّل رُوَيداً هَل تَعُدَّنَّ سالِماً

    إِلى آدَمٍ أَم هَل تَعُدُّ اِبنَ سالِمِ

    Consider calmly: can you count a man unscathed,

    back to Adam—or count the son of anyone unscathed?

  4. مَتى تَرعَ هَذا المَوتَ عَيناً بَصيرَةً

    تَجِد عادِلاً مِنهُ شَبيهاً بِظالِمِ

    Whenever you regard this death with a discerning eye,

    you find in it a just dealer resembling a wrongdoer.

  5. وَإِن تَكُ مَفجوعاً بِأَبيَضَ لَم يَكُن

    يَشُدُّ عَلى جَدواهُ عَقدَ التَمائِمِ

    And though you are bereaved of a radiant, noble man who never

    tied the knots of amulets around his bounty—

  6. بِفارِسِ دُعمِيٍّ وَهَضبَةِ وائِلٍ

    وَكَوكَبِ عَتّابٍ وَجَمرَةِ هاشِمِ

    the horseman of Du'mi and the mountain of Wa'il,

    and the star of 'Attab and the glowing coal of Hashim,

  7. شَجا الريحَ فَاِزدادَت حَنيناً لِفَقدِهِ

    وَأَحدَثَ شَجواً في بُكاءِ الحَمائِمِ

    who saddened the wind, so it grew more plaintive at his loss,

    and brought sorrow into the weeping of doves—

  8. فَمِن قَبلِهِ ما قَد أُصيبَ نَبِيُّنا

    أَبوالقاسِمِ النورُ المُبينُ بِقاسِمِ

    yet before him our Prophet had indeed been stricken:

    Abu al-Qasim, the manifest light, by the loss of Qasim.

  9. وَقالَ عَلِيٌّ في التَعازي لِأَشعَثٍ

    وَخافَ عَلَيهِ بَعضَ تِلكَ المَآثِمِ

    And Ali said to Ash'ath while offering condolences,

    and feared he might incur some of those sins:

  10. أَتَصبِرُ لِلبَلوى عَزاءً وَحِسبَةً

    فَتُؤجَرَ أَم تَسلو سُلُوَّ البَهائِمِ

    “Will you endure affliction with fortitude and in hope of reward,

    and so be rewarded—or let grief fade as beasts do?”

  11. وَلِلطُرَّفاتِ يَومَ صِفّينَ لَم يَمُت

    خُفاتاً وَلا حُزناً عَدِيُّ بنِ حاتِمِ

    And over the Turrafat, on the day of Siffin, he did not die

    suddenly or from grief—Adi ibn Hatim.

  12. خُلِقنا رِجالاً لِلتَصَبُّرِ وَالأَسى

    وَتِلكَ الغَواني لِلبُكا وَالمَآتِمِ

    We were created men for patient endurance and sorrow,

    and those fair women for weeping and mourning gatherings.

  13. وَأَيُّ فَتىً في الناسِ أَحرَضُ مِن فَتىً

    غَدا في خِفاراتِ الدُموعِ السَواجِمِ

    And what youth among people is more wasted than a youth

    who has come under the protection of streaming tears?

  14. وَهَل مِن حَكيمٍ ضَيَّعَ الصَبرَ بَعدَما

    رَأى الحُكَماءُ الصَبرَ ضَربَةَ لازِمِ

    And has any sage squandered patience after

    the sages deemed patience a binding obligation?

  15. وَلَم يَحمَدوا مِن عالِمٍ غَيرِ عامِلٍ

    خِلافاً وَلا مِن عامِلٍ غَيرِ عالِمِ

    Nor did they commend, in a learned man who did not act,

    dissent—nor in one who acted without knowledge.

  16. رَأَوا طُرُقاتِ العَجزِ عوجاً قَطيعَةً

    وَأَقطَعُ عَجزٍ عِندَهُم عَجزُ حازِمِ

    They saw the paths of weakness as crooked and impassable,

    and the most crippling weakness, to them, is a resolute man's weakness.

  17. فَلا بَرِحَت تَسطو رَبيعَةُ مِنكُمُ

    بِأَرقَمَ عَطّافٍ وَراءَ الأَراقِمِ

    So may Rabi'ah never cease to strike through you,

    with a mottled serpent, wheeling to attack behind the Araqim.

  18. فَأَنتَ وَصِنواكَ النَصيرانِ إِخوَةٌ

    خُلِقتُم سَعوطاً لِلأُنوفِ الرَواغِمِ

    For you and your two brothers, the two supporters, are brethren,

    created as medicinal snuff for noses rubbed in the dust.

  19. ثَلاثَةُ أَركانٍ وَما اِنهَدَّ سُؤدُدٌ

    إِذا ثَبَتَت فيهِ ثَلاثُ دَعائِمِ

    Three pillars—and no eminence has crumbled

    when three supports within it have stood firm.