Sol 6.1

  1. كَلِفتَ بِتَعنيفي بِلا طَلَبٍ عُذري

    وَأَفرَطتَ في عَذلي وَفَرَّطتَ في عُذري

    You are bent on rebuking me without seeking my excuse,

    and excessive in reproaching me, yet negligent of my excuse.

  2. إِذا ما جَرى دَمعي جَواباً لِعاذِلٍ

    فَإِنَّ انتِظامَ الوَجدِ في ذَلِكَ النَثرِ

    Whenever my tears flow in answer to a reprover,

    passion finds its order in that scattering.

  3. وَحارَبتَني فَأْذَن بِحَربِ لَواحِظٍ

    أُجَرِّدُهانَصلي فَتَضمَنُ لي نَصري

    You have made war on me: be warned of a war of glances,

    which I unsheathe as my blade, assuring me victory.

  4. وَإِنّي لَأَهوى العَذلَ في حُبِّ قاتِلي

    وَلَم أَرَهُ يُغني وَلَكِنَّهُ يُغري

    Indeed, I love reproach in loving my slayer;

    I have not found it helpful, yet it entices.

  5. وَإِنّي إِذا أَجرَيتُ ذِكرَكَ خالِياً

    لَأَلتَذُّ فيكُم بِالدُموعِ الَّتي تَجري

    Whenever I mention you in solitude,

    I truly delight, for your sake, in the tears that flow,

  6. عَلى أَنَّها جَمرٌ وَإِن غَرَّ ماؤُها

    فَلي راحَةٌ في أَن أُجَفِّفَ مِن جَمري

    though they are embers, however their water deceives;

    I find relief in drying some of my embers.

  7. يَقولونَ إِنَّ الصَبرَ يُعقِبُ راحَةً

    وَما ضَمِنوا تَبليغَ عاقِبَةِ الصَبرِ

    They say that patience brings relief,

    but never guaranteed I would reach patience's end.

  8. وَفي الصَبرِ رِبحٌ أَو طَريقٌ مُبَلِّغٌ

    إِلى الرِبحِ لَكِنَّ الخَسارَةَ في عُمري

    In patience there is profit, or a road leading

    to profit; but the loss is in my lifetime.

  9. وَقَد هَدَّدوني بِالرَحيلِ وَما دَرَوا

    بِأَنَّهُمُ قَد سافَروا قَبلُ بِالهَجرِ

    They threatened me with departure, unaware

    that through estrangement they had already traveled away.

  10. وَلَو أَنَّ قَلبي بَينَ جَنبَيَّ حاضِرٌ

    شَكَوتُ بِهِ ما قَد لَقيتُ مِنَ الضُرِّ

    Were my heart present between my ribs,

    I would complain through it of the suffering I have met.

  11. أَغَرَّ عُيونَ القَومِ أَنِّيَ مُطلَقٌ

    وَما عَلِموا أَنّي مِنَ الوَجدِ في أَسرِ

    Did my being free deceive the people's eyes?

    They did not know that passion holds me captive.

  12. وَإِنّي لَأَجرا الناسِ قَلباً عَلى أَسىً

    وَدَمعاً عَلى رَبعٍ وَقلَباً عَلى فِكرِ

    I am indeed the boldest of people, in heart toward grief,

    in tears over a dwelling, and in heart toward reflection;

  13. وَأَجبَنُهُم في الحُبِّ جَفناً عَنِ الكَرى

    وَنُطقاً عَنِ السَلوى وَعَزماً عَنِ الصَبرِ

    yet in love their most timid, in eyelids shrinking from sleep,

    in speech from consolation, and in resolve from patience.

  14. فَلا تَحسَبَنّي ضاحِكاً عَن مَسَرَّةٍ

    فَكَم ضاحِكٍ باكي العُيونِ مِنَ الفِكرِ

    Do not suppose I laugh from happiness:

    many a laughing person has eyes weeping from thought.

  15. وَغَيداءَ مِثلِ الخَمرِ يُعقِبُ وَصلُها

    خُماراً وَلَكِنَّ الخَديعَةَ بِالسُكرِ

    And a graceful woman, like wine: union with her brings

    a hangover, though the deception lies in drunkenness.

  16. عَلى أَنَّني أَستَوقِفُ الخَمرَ إِن سَرَت

    وَتَبلغُ ما لا يَبلُغُ الخَمرُ مِن سِرّي

    Yet I can stop wine when it courses through me,

    while she reaches depths of my secret self that wine cannot.

  17. مُحَلِّيَةٌ لِلحَلي عاطِلَةٌ بِهِ

    وَحَسبُكَ ما في الغيدِ من حِليَةِ السِحرِ

    She adorns ornaments, yet is unadorned by them;

    enough for you is graceful women's adornment of enchantment.

  18. عَلامَ جَحَدتِ البَدرَ مِنكِ مَكانَهُ

    أَما تَكتُميهِ بِالقُطوبِ لَدى الثَغرِ

    Why have you denied the full moon its place within you?

    Do you not conceal it with a frown beside your mouth?

  19. وَلَم يُخرِجِ الدُرَّ الَّذي البَحرُ دارُهُ

    سِوى غُلَّةٍ مِنهُ إِلى ذَلِكَ البَحرِ

    Nothing brought out the pearl whose home is the sea

    except its thirst for that sea.

  20. وَما سَمِعَت أُذنايَ قَبلَ لِقائِها

    بِحَلْي عَلى حَلْيٍ وَدُرٍّ عَلى دُرِّ

    Before meeting her, my ears had never heard

    of ornaments upon ornaments, or pearls upon pearls.

  21. بَدَت فَأَرَتني غُرَّةَ الدَهرِ طَلعَةٌ

    فَمَن لي بِها وَالعَيشُ في غُرَّةِ الدَهرِ

    A face appeared, showing me the bright brow of time;

    who will grant me her, and life in time's bright prime?

  22. وَلَمّا رَأَت عَيني شُجاعَ بنَ شاوِرٍ

    عَجِبتُ لِأَخبارِ تَقِلُّ عَنِ الخُبرِ

    When my eye saw Shuja ibn Shawar,

    I marveled at reports that fall short of firsthand knowledge.

  23. بدت صورةٌ بل سورةٌ قد تنزَّلَت

    محيَّاهُ منها موجبٌ سجدةَ الشكرِ

    A form appeared—rather, a surah revealed—

    within which his countenance demands a prostration of thanks.

  24. وَسَبَّحتُ رَبَّ العالَمينَ لِأَنَّني

    رَأَيتُهُم مُستَجمِعينَ بِلا حَشرِ

    I glorified the Lord of the Worlds because

    I saw them gathered together without a resurrection.

  25. وَقَد سُيِّبَت أَرزاقُهُم مِن يَمينِهِ

    وَهَل يَستَجيرُ القُطرُ يَوماً سِوى القَطرِ

    Their livelihoods flowed freely from his right hand:

    does a land ever seek refuge in anything but rain?

  26. وَأُقسِمُ لَولا أَنَّهُ طَودُ عِزَّةٍ

    وَمِن مَوعِدِ الأَطوادِ في الحَشرِ أَن تَسري

    I swear: were he not a mountain of might—

    and mountains are appointed to move at the Resurrection—

  27. ذُهِلتُ لِأَسرارِ القِيامَةِ إِذ بَدَت

    لِأَنّي رَأَيتُ الجودَ مُنفَجِرَ البَحرِ

    I would have been bewildered by the Resurrection's mysteries appearing,

    for I saw generosity, its sea bursting forth.

  28. وَدارُكَ بِالدُنيا وَكَفُّكَ بِالحَيا

    وَظِلُّكَ بِالمَحيا وَيَومُكَ بِالدَهرِ

    Your house is as the world, your hand as rain,

    your shelter as life, and your day as all time.

  29. وَمَن خَطَبَ الحَسناءَ مُرخِصَ مَهرِها

    فَإِنَّكَ أَنصَفتَ المَكارِمَ في المَهرِ

    Who would woo a beauty while cheapening her dowry?

    You have indeed given noble virtues their fair dowry:

  30. بِحِلمٍ بِلا ضَعفٍ وَحُكمٍ بِلا هَوىً

    وَفَتكٍ بِلا ذُعرٍ وَجودٍ بِلا عُذرِ

    forbearance without weakness, rule without whim,

    deadly force without panic, and generosity without excuse;

  31. وَسُحبِ يَدٍ لَم تَهمِ إِلّا بِأَحمَرٍ

    فَفي الحَربِ أَو في السِلمِ بِالدَمِ وَالتِبرِ

    clouds of a hand that rain nothing but red—

    in war or peace, blood and gold.

  32. وَطَهَّرتَ أَرضاً قَد وَطِئتَ تُرابَها

    فَلَسنا نَرى فيها لِصَدِّكَ مِن فِترِ

    You purified a land whose dust you trod,

    and we see in it not a handspan of resistance to you.

  33. فَأَلوِيَةٌ حُمرٌ مِنَ الطَعنِ في العِدى

    وَفي اللَيلِ مِن نارٍ بِأَلوِيَةٍ حُمرِ

    Banners red from spearthrusts against the foes,

    and at night from fire, with banners of red.

  34. تُعيدُهُمُ تِلكَ العَزائِمُ إِن سَطَت

    حَواصِلَ مِصرٍ في حَواصِلَ مِن نَصرِ

    Those resolves, when they strike, turn them into

    Egypt's pelicans in the crops of victory.

  35. وَتَكسو الظُبا مِنهُم دِماءٌ بَدَت بِها

    لَنا النارُ لا تُطفى وَتَطفو عَلى النَهرِ

    Blood from them clothes the blades, revealing

    to us fire that cannot be quenched and floats upon the river.

  36. كَأَنَّ عِداكُم مُغضَبونَ عَلى القَنا

    وَإِن يَلقَها مِنهُم جَريءٌ فَبِالظَهرِ

    Your foes seem angry at the spears;

    if a daring one among them meets them, it is with his back.

  37. أَلا شَدَّ ما أَسقَت يَداكَ فَأَنبَتَت

    غُصونَ قَناً وَالهامُ فيهِنَّ كَالثَمْرِ

    Ah, how mightily your hands have watered, making grow

    branches of spears, with heads upon them like fruit!

  38. إِذا شَرِبَت خَمرَ الدِما وَتَرَنَّحَت

    أَقَمتَ بِأَن حَطَّمتَها الحَدَّ في السُكرِ

    When they drink the wine of blood and sway,

    you enforce the drunkenness penalty by shattering them.

  39. إِلى القَومِ جادوا قَبلَ أَن يَسأَلوا النَدى

    وَما اِفتَقَرَت قُلبُ الغَمامِ إِلى حَفرِ

    They gave to the people before those people asked for bounty;

    the clouds' wells had no need of digging.

  40. حُماةٌ كَأَنَّ الشَمسَ بَعضُ نِسائِهِم

    فَقَد كَتَموها لِلغِنى في خِبا خِدرِ

    Protectors, as though the sun were one of their women:

    needing nothing, they concealed her in a secluded tent.

  41. هُمُ خَطَبوا بِكرَ العُلا وَعَوانَها

    بِجُردٍ عَوانِ البِكرِ

    They wooed glory in its maiden and mature forms,

    with sleek steeds seasoned for the maiden;

  42. وَأَندِيَةٍ خُضرِ مِنَ الخِصبِ دونَها

    سُيوفٌ رَمَينَ الجَدبَ في اللُجَجِ الخُضرِ

    and assembly places green with fertility, guarded by

    swords that cast drought into the green depths.

  43. وَرَأيٍ بِتَقديرٍ وَعَفوٍ بِقُدرَةٍ

    وَجودٍ عَلى قَدرِ وَقيلٍ عَلى قَدرِ

    Judgment with calculation, pardon with power,

    generosity in due measure, and speech in due measure.

  44. وَقَد حَفِظَ الرَحمَنُ بِاللَوحِ ذِكرَهُ

    فَيَهنيكُمُ أَن كُنتُمُ سِرَّ ذا الذَكرِ

    The Merciful preserved his remembrance on the Tablet;

    may it gladden you that you were the secret of this remembrance.

  45. وَأَخذِهِمُ أَلواحَ مُعجِزِ آيِهِ

    كَما أَخَذَ الأَلواحَ موسى عَلى قَدرِ

    And their taking the tablets of his miraculous signs,

    as Moses took the Tablets by decree;

  46. كَما كانَ نوحٌ إِذ طَغى الماءُ راكِباً

    عَلى ذاتِ أَلواحٍ بِتَدبيرِهِ تَجري

    as Noah, when the waters overflowed, rode

    upon a vessel of planks sailing by his direction.

  47. ثَبَتُّم بِأَلواحٍ ثَباتَ عَزيمَةٍ

    بِها السُمرُ قَد نُظِّمنَ لِلصَفِّ في سَطرِ

    You held firm with planks, with the firmness of resolve;

    upon them the brown spears were arrayed for battle in a line.

  48. وَحَذَّرَهُم مَن كانَ يُعنى بِأَمرِهِم

    وَما يَنفَعُ التَحذيرُ عِندَ اِنقِضا الأَمرِ

    The one concerned with their affairs warned them;

    what use is warning when the matter is finished?

  49. وَقالَ لَهُم نِمتُم فَلا تُنبِهوا القَطا

    وَلَو لَم تُنَبَّه باتَتِ الطَيرُ لا تَسري

    He told them: You have slept, so do not rouse the sandgrouse;

    had they not been roused, the birds would have stayed the night without traveling.

  50. وَلَمّا اِستَغاثوا ما أُغيثوا وَكَيفَ أَن

    يُغاثَ بُغاثٌ وَهوَ في مِخلَبِ الصَقرِ

    When they sought help, none came; and how could

    a weak bird be helped while in the falcon's talon?

  51. تَوَقَّ اِبتِداءَ الأَمرِ قَبلَ اِنتِشارِهِ

    وَحاذِر شَرارَ النارِ مِن قَبلِ أَن تَسري

    Guard against a matter's beginning before it spreads;

    beware the sparks of fire before it courses onward.

  52. وَأَكثَرُ ضُرِّ المَرءِ مِن أَهلِ وُدِّهِ

    أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ الخَمرَ مُظهِرَةُ السِرِّ

    Most of a person's harm comes from those he loves:

    have you not seen that wine reveals secrets?

  53. قَدِمتَ عَلَينا بِالبَشاشَةِ وَالنَدى

    فَفَجرٌ إِلى لَيلٍ وَمُزنٌ إِلى قَفرِ

    You came to us with cheerfulness and generosity:

    dawn to night, and rainclouds to wilderness.

  54. وَوافَيتَ مِن لينِ الخَلائِقِ وَالظُبا

    بِأَسهَلَ مِن مُزنِ وَأَخشَنَ مِن صَخرِ

    You came with gentleness of character and with blades,

    gentler than rainclouds, and rougher than rock.

  55. بِجَيشٍ إِذا ما النَقعُ أَبدى حَديدَهُ

    حَسِبتَهُمُ قَد نَصَّلوا السُمرَ بِالزُهرِ

    With an army whose iron, when the dust reveals it,

    makes you think they have tipped their brown shafts with stars.

  56. تَرى مِنهُ سَدّاً مِن حَديدٍ كَأَنَّما

    رَأَيتَ بِهِ في اليَومِ لَيلاً إِذا يَسري

    You see from it a barrier of iron, as though

    you saw in it, by day, a night advancing.

  57. إِذا اِشتَجَرَت راياتُهُم وَتَأَلَّفَت

    طُيورٌ إِلَيهِم قُلتَ حَنَّت إِلى وَكرِ

    When their banners intertwine and birds gather

    toward them, you say: They yearn for a nest.

  58. تَجَلّى فَأَجلى وَجهُكَ النَقعَ إِذ بَدا

    وَأَحسَنُ نورِ الوَصلِ في ظُلمَةِ الهَجرِ

    Your face shone forth and cleared the dust as it appeared;

    reunion's light is loveliest in estrangement's darkness:

  59. بِأَضوَأَ مِن بَرقٍ وَأَزيَدَ في السَنا

    وَأَهيَبَ مِن سَيفٍ وَأَملَأَ لِلصَدرِ

    brighter than lightning and greater in radiance,

    more awe-inspiring than a sword, filling the breast more fully.

  60. فَيا حُسنَ سَيفِ الهِندِ في عاتِقِ الهُدى

    وَيا حُسنَ تاجِ العَدلِ في مَفرِقِ الأَمرِ

    How lovely is India's sword upon guidance's shoulder,

    and justice's crown upon rule's brow!

  61. وَحَدَّث بِها بيضَ اللَيالي وَسودَها

    بِأَنَّ الوَغى اِنجابَت بِلا البيضِ وَالسُمرِ

    Tell the bright nights and their dark ones of it:

    that battle cleared away without white swords or brown spears;

  62. وَأَنَّ صُروفَ الدَهرِ أَغرَبَ حُكمُها

    فَلا الرَفعُ في زَيدٍ وَلا النَصبُ في عَمرو

    that time's vicissitudes grew stranger in their judgments:

    no raising of Zayd, and no setting down of Amr;

  63. وَأَنَّ سِياساتِ العُقولِ عَجيبَةٌ

    يَضيقُ بِها المَجرى عَلى العَسكَرِ المَجرِ

    and that the strategies of minds are wondrous:

    through them the passage narrows for the vast army.

  64. وَتُصمي بِلا سَهمٍ وَتَفري بِلا ظُباً

    وَتَسري إِلى بَعضِ الرِجالِ وَلا يَدري

    They kill outright without arrows and cleave without blades,

    stealing toward a man while he remains unaware.

  65. إِذا ما خُيولُ النائِباتِ تَراكَضَت

    فَهَيهاتَ أَن يُغنى الفَتى الفَوتُ بِالفَرِّ

    Whenever the steeds of misfortune gallop together,

    how far from saving a man is escape through flight!

  66. تَصَرَّفَ صَرفُ الدَهرِ في كُلِّ ما تَرى

    سِوى ما بِذاكَ الوَجهِ مِن حِليَةٍ البِشرِ

    Time's vicissitudes transformed everything you see,

    except that face's adornment of cheerfulness.

  67. وَلَم يَستَطِع نَقصاً لَهُ وَزِيادَةً

    عَلَيهِ إِذا ما مَنَّ بِالحُلوِ وَالمُرِّ

    They could neither diminish it nor add

    to it whenever they bestowed the sweet and the bitter.

  68. أَسَيِّدَنا إِن جِئتَ في الدَهرِ آخِراً

    فَقَد جاءَ عيدُ الفِطرِ في آخِرِ الشَهرِ

    Our master, if you came late in time,

    the Feast of Breaking the Fast came at the month's end.

  69. وَتَمَّ لي التَمثيلُ فيما ذَكَرتُهُ

    فَقَد جاءَ عيدُ النَحرِ في آخِرِ العَشرِ

    The comparison I mentioned is complete for me:

    the Feast of Sacrifice came at the end of the ten days.

  70. وَرَتَّبَتِ الأَقدارُ قَدرَكَ أَوَّلاً

    كَما جاءَنا التَرتيبُ في لَيلَةِ القَدرِ

    The decrees of fate assigned your rank first,

    as the ordering came to us on the Night of Decree.

  71. أَتى الفِطرُ فَاِستَقبَلتَهُ مِنكَ بِالنَدى

    مَضى الصومُ فَاِستَودَعتَهُ تُحَفَ الأَجرِ

    The feast arrived, and you welcomed it with your generosity;

    the fast passed, and you entrusted it with gifts of reward.

  72. وَمَسَّكتَ فيهِ الصُبحَ بِالعَدلِ وَالتُقى

    وَخَلَّقتَ فيهِ اللَيلَ بِالشَفعِ وَالوَترِ

    You musk-scented its morning with justice and piety,

    and perfumed its night with paired prayers and the odd prayer.

  73. سَتُفني يَدُ الأَيّامِ كُلَّ ذَخيرَةٍ

    سِوى ما لَكُم في ذِمَّةِ اللَهِ مِن ذُخرِ

    The hand of days will consume every store,

    except the treasure you have in God's keeping.

  74. وَإِنّي لَأَعتَدُّ الأَهِلَّةَ إِذ نَمَت

    ضُيوفاً لِهَذا البِشرِ عِندَكَ تَستَقري

    Indeed, I count the crescents, as they wax,

    as guests seeking hospitality in your cheerful welcome.

  75. وَقَلَّمتَ صَرفَ الدَهرِ عَنّا وَقَد رَأَوا

    هِلالَهُمُ مِثلَ القُلامَةِ في الظُفرِ

    You clipped time's vicissitudes away from us, while they saw

    their crescent like a clipping from a fingernail.

  76. وَكَم جيدِ لَيلِ سِمطُهُ مِن سِماطِهِ

    عَلى أَنَّهُ سِمطٌ تَنَظَّمَ لِلنَثرِ

    How many a night's neck wears a necklace from his banquet,

    though it is a necklace strung for scattering!

  77. تُضاهونَ بِالأَرضِ السَماءَ لِأَنَّكُم

    تُرَونَ بِها أَشباهَ أَنجُمِها الزُهرِ

    On earth you rival heaven, because

    you are seen there as likenesses of its bright stars.

  78. فَيا عَجَباً رَوضٌ إِلى النارِ يَعتَزي

    إِذا ما اِعتَزَت كُلُّ الرِياضِ إِلى القَطرِ

    What wonder: a garden claiming kinship with fire,

    when all gardens claim kinship with rain!

  79. مَوائِدُ مِنهُنَّ البِلادُ مَوائِدٌ

    تَضَمَّنَّ ما يعلو عَنِ الحَصرِ وَالحَصرِ

    Banquets from which the lands themselves become banquets,

    containing what exceeds reckoning and confinement.

  80. وَلا عَيبَ فيها غَيرَ أَنَّ بَني الدُنيا

    قَد اِفتَقَروا لَمّا رَأَوها مِنَ القَفرِ

    They have no fault, except that the sons of this world

    were left short of barren land when they beheld them.

  81. يَحُجُّ إِلَيها مَن يُجيبُ نِدا النَدى

    وَلَكِنَّهُ حَجٌّ يَدومُ بِلا نَفرِ

    Whoever answers generosity's call makes pilgrimage to them,

    but it is a pilgrimage lasting without departure.

  82. مَكارِمُ حَدَّثتُ الصَباحَ حَديثَها

    وَإِن لَم يَكُن مِن ظُلمَةِ اللَيلِ في سِترِ

    Noble deeds whose tale I told the morning,

    though it was not veiled in the darkness of night.

  83. وَأَخبارُكُم في طَيِّها وَمَسيرِها

    وَتَخليدِها بَينَ البَرِيَّةِ كَالخِضرِ

    Your tales, in their spanning of distances and their journeys,

    and their enduring among mankind, are like al-Khidr.

  84. وَفي كُلِّ أَرضٍ مِن نَداكُم شَواهِدٌ

    فَما اِنتَقَلَت عَنهُ الأَحاديثُ بِالشُفرِ

    In every land there are witnesses to your generosity;

    so reports of it were not carried by eyelids.

  85. وَلَمّا رَكِبتُم لِلخَليجِ وَكَسرِهِ

    عَجِبتُ لِأَن سارَت بُحورٌ إِلى نَهرِ

    When you rode out to the canal and its breaching,

    I marveled that seas should travel to a river.

  86. كَما أَنَّني أَيضاً عَجِبتُ لِأَنَّكُم

    بِكَسرٍ جَبَرتُم كُلَّ أَرضٍ مِنَ الكَسرِ

    Likewise, I also marveled that you,

    through a breach, mended every land's brokenness.

  87. وَجُدتُم فَأَورَدتُم وَجادَ فَلَم نَرِد

    لِأَنّا ضِيافٌ لِلسَماحَةِ في قُطرِ

    You were generous and brought us to water; it was generous, yet we did not go,

    because we are guests of generosity in this land.

  88. وَقَد جاءَ قَبلَ النَيلِ نَيلُكَ سابِقاً

    إِذا النيلُ في شُغلٍ مِنَ المَدِّ وَالجَزرِ

    Your bounty came ahead of the Nile,

    while the Nile was occupied with rising and ebbing.

  89. وَكَم لَكَ عِندي مِن أَيادٍ جَميلَةٍ

    وَلا عَيبَ فيها غَيرُ عَجزي عَنِ الشُكرِ

    How many beautiful benefactions you have bestowed on me!

    They have no fault except my inability to give thanks.

  90. فَإِن خَفَّفت قَيدي فَقَد أَثقَلَت ظَهري

    وَإِن رَوَّحَت سِرّي فَقَد أَتعَبَت فِكري

    If they lightened my chains, they weighed down my back;

    if they refreshed my inward self, they exhausted my thought.

  91. تَخَيَّرتِ أَرضي يا سَماءُ فَأَنجَبَت

    فَدونَكِ رَبعَ الشُكرِ عَن ذَلِكَ البَذرِ

    You chose my earth, O sky, and it bore richly:

    take, then, gratitude's plot for that seed.

  92. أَتَحسَبُ أَنّي لِلمَواهِبِ كاتِمٌ

    أَما قيلَ إِنَّ الأَرضَ مُخرِجَةُ السِرِّ

    Do you think I conceal gifts?

    Was it not said that the earth brings secrets forth?

  93. وَلَو جَحَدَ الرَوضُ السَحائِبَ قَطرَها

    لَأَخجَلَهُ ما فاحَ عَنهُ مِنَ النَشرِ

    Were the garden to deny the clouds their rain,

    the fragrance wafting from it would shame it.

  94. أيا سامِعاً وَحيَ المُنى مِن عَبيدِهِ

    إِذا كانَ داءُ البُخلِ في السَمعِ كَالوَقرِ

    O hearer of wishes whispered by his servants,

    when stinginess afflicts hearing like deafness!

  95. تَكَبَّرَ عَن كِبرٍ وَلَكِنَّ عَبدَهُ

    بِأَن عَدَّهُ عَبداً تَحَقَّقَ بِالكِبرِ

    He rose above pride, yet his servant,

    because he counted him a servant, attained true greatness.

  96. فَقُل لِلَّيالي قَد وَصَلتُ بِلا سُرىً

    وَقُل لِلأَماني قَد وَصَلتُ بِلا صَبرِ

    Tell the nights: I arrived without traveling by night;

    tell wishes: I arrived without patience.

  97. وَحَسبُ الأَماني أَن سُقيتُ بِلا حَياً

    وَحَسبُ السُرى أَنّي هُديتُ بِلا فَجرِ

    Enough for wishes that I was watered without rain;

    enough for night journeys that I was guided without dawn.

  98. وَبَيَّنَ هَذا الفَضلُ فَضلَكَ لِلوَرى

    أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّ الدُرَّ يوجَدُ في الغَمرِ

    This favor revealed your excellence to mankind:

    have you not seen that pearls are found in deep water?

  99. وَما زِلتَ تَستَعفي العُفاةَ مِنَ الثَنا

    فَقَد شُغِلوا بِالشُكرِ عَن طَلَبِ الوَفرِ

    You never ceased asking petitioners to spare you praise;

    they were occupied with thanks rather than seeking abundance.

  100. كَفَتكَ اللَيالي ما تَخافُ فَإِنَّها

    عَلى خَوفِها مِنكُم تَخافُ عَلى الحُرِّ

    May the nights spare you what you fear, for they,

    despite their fear of you, fear for the noble man.

  101. فَواعَجَباً مِنها وَمِنّا فَإِنَّنا

    وَفَينا لَها حيناً عَلى العِلمِ بِالغَدرِ

    What wonder at them and at us, for we

    were faithful to them awhile, though knowing their treachery.