Sol 6.1

  1. مَكسويني كَتَبتَ لِلناسِ دَرساً

    عَدَّهُ الدَهرُ مِن كِبارِ عِظاتِهْ

    MacSwiney, you wrote a lesson for the people

    That time counted among its greatest admonitions.

  2. فيهِ سِرٌّ لِلعالَمينَ عَجيبٌ

    تَستَحي الكيمياءُ مِن مُعجِزاتِهْ

    In it is a mystery wondrous to all the world;

    Alchemy blushes before its miracles.

  3. يَهَبُ الروحَ كُلَّ شَعبٍ رَميمٍ

    لَعِبَ الدَهرُ وَالبِلى بِرُفاتِهْ

    It breathes life into every decayed nation

    Whose remains time and decay have toyed with.

  4. فَهوَ في نَضرَةِ الحَياةِ فَتِيٌّ

    يَتَهادى الشَبابُ في خُطُواتِهْ

    Then it is young in the freshness of life,

    Youth swaying gracefully in its steps.

  5. يُمعِنُ النَهضَةَ الأَبِيَّةَ تَشأى

    غايَةَ المَضرحِيِّ في نَهضاتِهْ

    It presses on in a proud uprising, outstripping

    The great eagle's utmost reach in its flights.

  6. تَسكُنُ العاصِفاتُ عَن جانِبَيهِ

    وَتَطيرُ الجِبالُ في هَبَواتِهْ

    Storms fall still on either side of it,

    And mountains fly amid its clouds of dust.

  7. وَإِذا ما رَمى الزَمانُ بِخَطبٍ

    خَطَبَتهُ دَماً سِهامُ رُماتِهْ

    And when time hurls a calamity,

    Its archers' arrows seek its blood.

  8. يَطلُبُ العِزَّ باذِخاً تَتَهاوى

    هِمَمُ الطالِبينَ عَن قَذَفاتِهْ

    It seeks towering glory; down tumble

    The seekers' ambitions from its lofty heights.

  9. تِلكَ لِلشَعبِ قُوَّةٌ وَحَياةٌ

    تَملَأُ الخافِقينِ مِن سَطَواتِهْ

    That is strength and life for the people,

    Filling East and West with its mighty blows.

  10. ما عَهِدنا الخُطوبَ تَرحَمُ شَعباً

    يَقَظاتُ الخُطوبِ مِن غَفَلاتِهْ

    We have never known calamities to pity a nation

    Whose heedless lapses rouse calamities.

  11. يَفتِكُ الظُلمُ بِالضِعافِ وَتَنجو

    مُهَجُ الأَقوِياءِ مِن فَتَكاتِهْ

    Oppression destroys the weak, while

    The lives of the strong escape its deadly assaults.

  12. مَنَعَ اللَيثَ أَن يُضامَ وَيُؤذى

    ما تَخافُ الذِئابُ من وَثَباتِهْ

    The lion is shielded from oppression and harm

    By the wolves' dread of its pounces.

  13. يا شَهيداً شَجا المَشارِقَ طُرّاً

    ما شَجا الغَربَ من ضَجيجِ نُعاتِهْ

    O martyr, all the East was grieved

    By your mourners' cries that grieved the West.

  14. وَسَجيناً لَم يطعَمِ القوتَ حَتّى

    طَعمَ المَوتَ مِن أُكُفِّ سُقاتِهْ

    And prisoner, who tasted no food until

    He tasted death from the palms of his cupbearers.

  15. يَنصَبُ النَفسَ لِلعَذابِ وَيَلقى

    ما يُذيبُ النُفوسَ مِن سَكَراتِهْ

    He exposes his soul to torment and endures

    Death's agonies that melt souls away,

  16. إِذ يَرى قَومَهُ أَعَزَّ وَأَعلى

    وَحَياةَ البِلادِ فَوقَ حَياتِهْ

    For he holds his people dearer and higher,

    And his country's life above his own.

  17. أَنتَ لِلحُرِّ سُنَّةٌ وَكِتابٌ

    يَستَفيدُ المِثالَ مِن صَفَحاتِهْ

    You are a tradition and a book for the free,

    Who draw their example from its pages:

  18. صَفَحاتٍ تُؤتي النُفوسَ هُداها

    بِالسَنا المُستَفيضِ مِن كَلِماتِهْ

    Pages that give souls their guidance

    Through the radiance streaming from its words.

  19. فيهِ روحُ اليَقينِ لِاِبنِ هُمومٍ

    يَستَزيدُ الزَمانُ مِن نَكَباتِهْ

    In it is the spirit of certainty for a son of sorrows,

    Whose calamities time ever seeks to multiply.

  20. صادِقِ العَزمِ وَالمُروءَةِ يَهوي

    كُلُّ عالي الذُرى أَمامَ ثَباتِهْ

    True in resolve and honor—down falls

    Every lofty summit before his steadfastness.

  21. فيهِ عِزُّ الذَليلِ يُلقي عَلَيهِ

    عِظَةَ الدَهرِ مِن أَجَلِّ ثِقاتِهْ

    In it lies the lowly one's dignity; it imparts to him

    Time's lesson, from its most venerable confidants.

  22. فيهِ ما يَنفَعُ المَمالِكَ مِن مَأ

    ثورِ آياتِهِ وَمِن بَيِّناتِهْ

    In it is what benefits kingdoms, drawn from

    Its handed-down verses and its clear proofs.

  23. فيهِ ما يَدفَعُ المَهدِّدَ عَنها

    وَيَرُدُّ المُسيءَ عَن سَيِّآتِهْ

    In it is what drives the threatener away from them

    And turns the wrongdoer back from his evil deeds.

  24. هِدَّةُ البَرِّ كُلُّها مِن قُواهُ

    وَجَحيمُ البِحارِ مِن مُنشَآتِهْ

    All the thunder of the land comes from its powers,

    And the seas' inferno is among its creations.

  25. قُل لِأَلفٍ مِنَ الأَئِمَّةِ يَقضي

    أَلفَ شَهرٍ في صَومِهِ وَصَلاتِهْ

    Tell a thousand imams, each spending

    A thousand months in his fasting and prayer:

  26. أَيُّ دينٍ لِصائِمٍ أَو مُصَلٍّ

    في مُروآتِهِ وَفي مَكرُماتِهْ

    What faith has one who fasts or prays

    In his chivalry and his noble deeds?

  27. دينُ حُرٍّ يَموتُ في السِجنِ جوعاً

    وَيَرى العارَ أَن يَعيشَ لِذاتِهْ

    The faith of a free man who dies of hunger in prison

    And deems it shameful to live for himself.

  28. نَكبَةٌ زُلزِلَت لَها دَولَةُ الحَق

    قِ وَلِلحَقِّ دَولَةٌ مِن حُماتِهْ

    A calamity that shook the realm of Truth—

    And Truth has a realm upheld by its defenders.

  29. لَو يَرى الناسُ ما أَرى حينَ أَودى

    لَشَرعتُ الصِيامَ يَومَ وَفاتِهْ

    If people could see what I see in his passing,

    I would ordain fasting on the day of his death.