Sol 6.1

  1. للخالديَّينِ جَمالُ مَنْظَرِ

    وبِزَّةٌ تَملأُ عينَ المُبصِرِ

    The two Khālidīs have a handsome appearance,

    And attire that fills the beholder's eye;

  2. والعارُ في فِعلِهما المُشهَّرِ

    تَشابَها في مَنْظَرٍ ومَخبَرِ

    And disgrace lies in their notorious conduct.

    They were alike in looks and inner character,

  3. واشترَكا إلى المماتِ في حَرِ

    يَحرُثُهُ جَدُّ فَدانِ الأصغَرِ

    And shared a vulva until death.

    The might of the younger one's plow tills it,

  4. والزَّرْعُ إن تَمَّ به للأكبَرِ

    أقول إذْ هَمّا بأمرٍ مُنكَرِ

    And the crop, if it ripens there, is the elder's.

    I say, when they both planned a shameful deed,

  5. وراءَ سِترٍ لهما لم يَستُرِ

    واعتَفَرا ظَبْيَ الصَّريمِ الأعفَرِ

    Behind a screen of theirs that did not conceal them,

    And wrestled the thicket's tawny gazelle into the dust,

  6. واقتَسَما باللَّحظِ في المُعَجَّرِ

    وجَمَّشا الوَردَ بِوَرْدٍ أحمَرِ

    And shared out the turbaned one with their glances,

    And caressed the roses with a red rose,

  7. ولَعِبَتْ أَيديهما في القَرقَر

    أيُّهما بَعْلُ الغَزالِ الأَحوَرِ

    And their hands played over the smooth plain:

    Which of them is husband to the dark-eyed gazelle?

  8. أَصَاحِبُ الشَّبْيَهِ لم يُغَيِّرِ

    أم الخَضيبُ ذي الصِّبا المُزَوَّرِ

    Is it the look-alike's companion, who has changed nothing,

    Or the dyed-haired one with his counterfeit youth?

  9. وكم قَبيحٍ لَهُما مُسَتَّرِ

    في كلِّ مَبْدى نازحٍ ومحضَرِ

    And how many a hidden shameful deed is theirs,

    In every remote desert camp and settled abode,

  10. يُسفِرُ عن ضِدِّ الصَّباحِ المُسْفِرِ

    وذاتِ وَجْهٍ كَصَفا المُشقَّرِ

    Revealing the opposite of radiant morning.

    And a woman whose face was like al-Mushaqqar's rock—

  11. لو رَضَّهُ الحافِرُ لم يُؤَثِّرِ

    خُلَّةُ بَعلَينِ وخُلٍّ مُضْمَرِ

    A hoof could batter it without leaving a mark—

    Mistress to two husbands and a secret lover,

  12. يُعْجِبُها وَقْعُ خَرابِ البَرْيَرِ

    وهْيَ مُعَنَّاةٌ بكلِّ أسمَرِ

    She delights in the pounding of 'Kharāb al-Baryar'—an obscure phrase—

    And is love-tormented by every dusky one.

  13. أَحِينَ أَضحى شَيْبُها كالمِغْفَرِ

    وخَلَعَت بُردَ الشَبابِ الأزهَرِ

    Was it when her gray hair had become a mail helmet,

    And she had shed the robe of radiant youth,

  14. وجاوَزَتْ عَصْرَ الفتاةِ المُعْصِرِ

    حَنَّتْ إلى كُلِّ قُمُدِّ أَعْجَرِ

    And passed the age of a newly nubile girl,

    That she yearned for every thick, bulging penis?

  15. فعَنْبَرَتْ شَيئاً كَلَوْنِ العَنْبَرِ

    ولَبَّةً في لَبَبٍ مِنْ جَوْهَرِ

    So she scented with ambergris something ambergris-colored,

    And a throat within a collar of jewels,

  16. وجَلَسَتْ بينَ غُثا وأغثَرِ

    فشَرِبا من ثَغرِها المُؤَشَّرِ

    And sat between refuse and a dusty lout.

    Then both drank from her filed-toothed mouth

  17. ريقاً كريقِ النَّحْلَةِ المُزَعْفَرِ

    وجاذَبا مِئزَرَ بَسْلِ المِئزَرِ

    Saliva like the bee's saffron-tinted saliva,

    And both tugged at the loincloth of one whose loins were forbidden,

  18. فَلَقِيا شِنِّيرَها بِقَنْبَرِ

    طِعانُ يومٍ ضاحكٍ مُستَبشِرِ

    Then met her vulva with a penis.

    A joust on a laughing, joyful day,

  19. لم تَعثُرِ الخيلُ بهِ في عِثْيَرِ

    يَنسى به المطعونُ فَرْطَ المُنكَرِ

    In which no horses stumbled in dust,

    In which the pierced one forgets the enormity of the outrage,

  20. ولو حَكَت عِرْسَ الضَّرير الأبخَرِ

    وزوجةُ ابنِ العَصَبِ المحكَّر

    Even if she resembled the foul-breathed blind man's wife.

    And the wife of Ibn al-ʿAṣab al-Muḥakkar—

  21. وهي وَقُودُ النَّارِ يومَ المّحشَرِ

    لانتَهَبَت ظَهرَ الصَفا والمَشعَرِ

    She who is fuel for the Fire on the Day of Gathering—

    Would have plundered the ridge of al-Ṣafā and al-Mashʿar.

  22. وكيفَ للأعمى بحَظٍّ الأعوَرِ

    مَعَرَّةٌ لو فاضَ ماءُ الكَوْثَرِ

    And how can the blind man have the one-eyed man's luck?

    A disgrace—were al-Kawthar's waters to overflow,

  23. وانهلَّ حنَّانُ الغَمامِ المُمْطِرِ

    وبرَقَتْ لُجَّةُ بَحرٍ أخضَرِ

    And the rumbling, rain-bearing clouds to pour down,

    And the deep waters of a green sea to flash,

  24. حتى ترى ساحةَ بَرٍّ أقفَرِ

    على الذي هُما له لم يَظْهَرِ

    Until you saw the expanse of a desolate land—

    It would not prevail over the one to whom those two belong.

  25. إنّي على سَلْبِكُما لَمُجتَري

    وفي الذي أَطلقْتُ غيرُ مُقتِرِ

    I dare indeed to strip you both,

    And am no miser in what I let loose.

  26. فاستمعا حَسناءَ لو لم تُهْجَرِ

    حَلَّى بها الخَاطبُ جِيدَ المِنبَرِ

    So hear, both of you, a beauty which, were it not shunned,

    The orator would use to adorn the pulpit's neck.