Sol 6.1

  1. أَحْلى الهَوى أَنْ يَطُولَ الوَجْدُ والسَّقَمُ

    وأَصْدَقُ الحُبِّ ما جَلَّتْ بِهِ التُّهَمُ

    Love is sweetest when yearning and sickness endure,

    And the truest love is that which arouses grave suspicions.

  2. لَيْتَ اللَّياليَ أَحْلاماً تَعُودُ لَنا

    فَرُبَّما قَدْ شَفَى دَاءَ الهَوَى الحُلُمُ

    Would that the nights returned to us as dreams,

    For a dream has sometimes cured love's sickness.

  3. لا آخذَ اللَّهُ جِيرانَ النَّقا بِدَمِي

    هُمْ أَسْلَمُونِي لِوَجْدٍ مِنْهُ قَدْ سَلِمُوا

    May God not hold al-Naqa's dwellers answerable for my blood;

    They abandoned me to a yearning from which they themselves were spared.

  4. وَحَرَّمُوا في الهَوَى وَصْلِي وَمَا عَطَفُوا

    وَحَلَّلُوا بِالنَّوى قَتْلِي وَمَا رَحمُوا

    And in love they forbade union with me, showing no tenderness;

    And through separation they made killing me lawful, showing no mercy.

  5. وَفَّيْتُهُمْ حَقَّ حِفْظِ العَهْدِ مُغْتَبطاً

    بِهِمْ وما رُعِيَت لي عِنْدَهُمْ ذِمَمُ

    I gave them their due by keeping faith, rejoicing

    In them, though they honored no pledges toward me.

  6. يَا غَائبينَ وَوَجْدي حَاضِرٌ بِهِم

    وَعَاتِبينَ وَذَنْبي في الغَرامِ هُمُ

    O absent ones, though my yearning for them is ever present,

    And reproachful ones, though they themselves are my sin in love.

  7. لا أَوْحَشَتْ مِنْكُمُ دارٌ بِكُمْ شَرُفَتْ

    ولا خَلَتْ مِنْ مَغَانِي حُسْنِكُمْ خِيَمُ

    May no dwelling ennobled by you grow desolate without you,

    Nor may the tents among your beauty's haunts stand empty.

  8. بِنتُمْ فلا طَرْفَ إلّا وَهْو مُضْطرِبٌ

    شَوْقاً ولا قَلْبَ إِلّا وَهْوَ مُضْطَرِمُ

    You departed; there is no eye that does not tremble

    With longing, and no heart that is not aflame.

  9. فكُلُّ أَرْضٍ وَطِئْتُمْ تُرْبَها فَلَكٌ

    وَكُلُّ وادٍ حَلَلْتُمْ رَبْعَهُ حَرَمُ

    For every land whose soil you trod is a celestial sphere,

    And every valley where you made your home is a sanctuary.

  10. هل عائدٌ والأماني قَلَّما صَدقتْ

    دَهْرٌ مَضَى وَمغاني حُسْنِكُمْ أُمَمُ

    Will there return—though hopes have seldom come true—

    A bygone time, when your beauty's dwellings were near?

  11. فَالجِسْمُ مُذْ غِبْتُمُ بِالسّفْحِ مُتّشِحٌ

    وَالقلبُ مُضْطَرِبٌ بالشَّوْقِ مُضْطَرِمُ

    So, since you vanished, my body has been cloaked in streaming tears,

    And my heart trembles with longing, aflame.

  12. لم يُنْسِنا سَالِفاً مِنْ عَهْدِكُم قِدَمٌ

    وَلا سَعَتْ بِالتَّسَلّي نَحْوَنا قَدَمُ

    Time has not made us forget our former days with you,

    Nor has any foot come toward us bearing consolation.

  13. أَسْتَوْدِعُ اللَّهَ رَكْباً في هَوادِجِهِمْ

    مُحجَّبٌ لَيْسَ تُرْعَى عِنْدَهُ الذممُ

    I commend to God a caravan, in whose howdahs

    Is a veiled beloved who honors no pledges.

  14. لَهُ مِنَ الغُصْنِ قَدٌّ زَانَهُ هَيَفٌ

    وَمِنْ غزالِ الحِمَى طَرْفٌ بِهِ سَقَمُ

    His is a bough-like figure, graced with a slender waist,

    And a sanctuary gazelle's gaze, languid with sickness.

  15. يَبيتُ قَلْبي عَلَيْهِ حُرْقَةً وَجَوىً

    وَقَلبُهُ بَارِدٌ مِنْ لَوْعَتِي شَبِمُ

    My heart spends the night in burning anguish and grief for him,

    While his heart is cold to my anguish, icy cold.

  16. ظَلِلْتُ فِيهِ وَأَمْسَى قَلْبُهُ حَجَراً

    لَمْ يَشْفِ قَطّ مُحِبّاً شَفَّهُ أَلَمُ

    I stayed in torment over him, while his heart turned to stone;

    Never has he healed a lover whom pain has wasted.

  17. فَوا الّذي زَانَهُ مِنْ طَرْفِهِ سَقَمٌ

    وَأَودَعَ السِّحْرَ فيهِ أَنَّهُ قَسَمُ

    So by the one whom sickness in his gaze adorned,

    And in whom it lodged enchantment—this is an oath—

  18. لَوْلا تَثنِّي رُدَيْنِيِّ القَوامِ بِهِ

    حَلفْتُ أَلْفَ يَمِينٍ أَنَّه صَنَمُ

    Were it not for the sway of his Rudayni-spear form,

    I would have sworn a thousand oaths that he is an idol.