Sol 6.1

  1. دَعِ القَومَ ما حَلّوا بِبَطنِ قُراضِمٍ

    وَحَيثُ تَقَشَّى بَيضُهُ المُتَفَلِّقُ

    Leave the people while they dwell in Qurāḍim's valley,

    and where its splitting eggs have shed their shells.

  2. فَإِنَّكَ لَو قارَبتَ أَو قُلتَ شُبهَةً

    لِذِي الحَقِّ فيها والمُخاصِمِ مَعلَقُ

    For had you come near the truth, or offered a plausible claim

    in which the rightful claimant and his opponent had a foothold,

  3. عَذَرناكَ أَو قُلنا صَدَقتَ وَإِنَّما

    يُصَدَّقُ بِالأَقوالِ مَن كانَ يَصدُقُ

    we would have excused you or said, 'You told the truth'; yet only

    one who has been truthful is believed in what he says.

  4. سَتأبى بَنو عَمرٍو عَلَيكَ وَيَنتَمي

    لَهُم حَسَبٌ في جِذمِ غَسّانَ مُعرِقُ

    The sons of ʿAmr will reject you, and theirs

    is a noble lineage rooted deep in Ghassān's stock.

  5. فَإِنَّكَ لا عَمراً أَباكَ حَفِظتَهُ

    وَلا النَضرَ إِن ضَيَّعتَ شَيخَكَ تَلحَقُ

    For you have neither kept faith with ʿAmr, your father,

    nor will you join al-Naḍr if you forsake your elder.

  6. وَلَم تُدرِكِ القَومَ الَّذينَ طَلَبتَهُم

    فَكُنتَ كَما كانَ السقاءُ المُعَلَّقُ

    And you have not reached the people whom you sought,

    so you were like the waterskin hanging

  7. بِجِذمَةِ ساقٍ لَيسَ مِنهُ لِحاؤُها

    وَلَم يَكُ عَنها قَلبُهُ يَتَعَلَّقُ

    on a tree-stump whose bark is no kin to it,

    nor had its heart ever hung from that stump.

  8. فَأَصبَحتَ كالمُهريقِ فَضلَةَ مائِهِ

    لِبادِي سَرابٍ بالمَلا يَتَرَقرَقُ

    So you have become like one who pours away his remaining water

    for a mirage shimmering into view on the open plain.