Sol 6.1

  1. يا عَمرُو حَسبُكَ مِن خَدعٍ وَوِسواسِ

    فَاِذهَب فَلَيسَ لِداءِ الجَهلِ مِن آسي

    O Amr, enough of deceit and whisperings!

    Go, then: ignorance's malady has no healer,

  2. إِلّا تَواتُرِ طَعنٍ في نُحورِكُمُ

    يُشجي النُفوسَ وَيُشفي نَخوَةَ الراسِ

    Except repeated thrusts into your throats,

    That grieve souls and cure the head's conceit.

  3. هَذا الدَواءُ الَّذي يَشفي جَماعَتَكُم

    حَتّى تُطيعوا عَلِيّا وَاِبنَ عَبّاسِ

    This is the medicine that cures your band,

    Until you obey Ali and Ibn Abbas.

  4. أَمّا عَلِيٌّ فَإِنَّ اللَهَ فَضَّلَهُ

    بِفَضلِ ذي شَرَفٍ عالٍ عَلى الناسِ

    As for Ali, God has indeed favored him

    Through the merit of one whose honor towers above mankind.

  5. إِن تَعقِلوا الحَربَ نَعقِلها مُخَيَّسَةً

    أَو تَبعَثوها فَإِنّا غَيرُ أَنكاسِ

    If you hobble war, we too shall keep it hobbled and subdued;

    Or if you rouse it, we are no weaklings.

  6. قَد كانَ مِنّا وَمِنكُم في عَجاجَتِها

    ما لا يُرَدُّ وَكُلٌّ عُرضَةُ الباسِ

    From us and from you, amid its dust, has come

    What cannot be undone; all are exposed to war's fury.

  7. قَتلى العِراقِ بِقَتلى الشامِ ذاهِبَةٌ

    هَذا بِهَذا وَما بِالحَقِّ مِن باسِ

    Iraq's slain are offset by the slain of Syria;

    This for that, and there is no harm in justice.

  8. لا بارَكَ اللَهُ في مِصرٍ لَقَد جَلَبَت

    شَرّاً وَحَظُّكَ مِنها حُسوَةُ الكاسِ

    May God not bless Egypt! It has surely brought

    Evil, and your share of it is a sip from the cup.

  9. يا عَمرُو إِنَّكَ عارٍ مِن مَغارِمِها

    وَالراقِصاتِ وَمِن يَومِ الجَزا كاسي

    O Amr, you are bare of its burdens,

    By the prancing camels—and clad in those of Judgment Day.