Sol 6.1

  1. الرزء من قلقي أجل وأعظم

    والخطب من ولفي أضر واسقم

    The bereavement is greater and graver than my anguish,

    and the calamity more harmful and sickening than my yearning.

  2. والحزن ما رسم الكآبة هكذا

    عين مسهدة وقلب مغرم

    Grief is what has drawn dejection thus:

    a sleepless eye and a heart enthralled.

  3. وحشا حشاها البين باكره قانيا

    كادت ببيني النواظر تسحم

    And a heart separation filled with crimson at its first assault;

    my eyes nearly poured forth tears at my parting.

  4. وإذا الزفير تجمعت حركاته

    غدت الأضالع عندها تتقسم

    And when the movements of sighing gather,

    the ribs begin to split apart.

  5. وأنا الذي سلب الزمان سلوه

    وظلمنه الأيام وهي تظلم

    I am he whose solace Time has stolen;

    the days have wronged him, as they ever wrong.

  6. من تالد الأيام حزني طارف

    ومن الأسى لي كل يوم موسم

    My grief is fresh from the days' ancient store,

    and every day brings me a season of sorrow.

  7. فمن الحوادث بكرة وعشية

    بي مثله منها تحد وميسم

    For from calamities, morning and evening,

    their like cuts into me and leaves a brand.

  8. أيام دفرٍ ما عليك لما أرى

    من خدع آلك بالكرام تندم

    O foul days, why not repent for what I see

    of your mirage's deceits against the noble?

  9. كم شيدت قوم رؤوس معاقل

    عقلوا بها آمالهم وتعظموا

    How many a people raised the crests of strongholds,

    tethered their hopes to them, and grew proud!

  10. ناموا على فرش السرير وقوموا

    عنهم جباة للخراج فقوموا

    They slept upon the throne's bedding and appointed

    tax collectors in their stead, who made assessments.

  11. نزلت بهم ركب المنون فاقفلوا

    عنها ولاحهم الطريق فيمموا

    Death's caravan descended upon them, and they departed

    away; the road wore them down as they journeyed on.

  12. أين الأكاسرة الجبابرة الألى

    أين القياصر والسواد الأعظم

    Where are those mighty, tyrannical Khosrows?

    Where are the Caesars and the great multitude?

  13. أَين النبي محمد مولى الورى

    والأنبياء فسل وجدّك عنهم

    Where is the Prophet Muhammad, master of mankind,

    and the prophets? Ask—by your forefather—about them.

  14. حل القضاء بهم وذاك مقدر

    ماض وأمر نافذ ومتمم

    The decree befell them; it was ordained,

    irrevocable—a command effective and fulfilled.

  15. والموت لم تدفعه عنا حيلة

    أبداً ولا جيش أجش عرمرم

    No stratagem has ever warded death away from us,

    nor any thunderous, vast army.

  16. آها لرزء مصيبة نزلت بنا

    جيب يشق لها وخد يلطم

    Alas for the grievous disaster that has befallen us:

    for it a neckline is torn and a cheek struck.

  17. في العرب تعرب لم تزل آياتها

    وحروفها بالعجم طرا تعجم

    Among the Arabs its signs have never ceased to speak plainly,

    and among all non-Arabs its letters are spelled out.

  18. رزئت به أهل السماء وذا الورى

    لا تغلب خصت بتلك وجرهم

    Heaven's people and these mortals were bereaved of him;

    Taghlib and Jurhum alone were not singled out by this.

  19. وبها البسيطة أرجفت وبها السما

    طويت ومنها الشامخات تهدم

    By it the earth was shaken, and by it the sky

    was folded up, and the lofty mountains crumbled.

  20. عبد الاله المرتضى ابن محمد

    هل أنت بعدك بالمكارم تعلم

    Abd al-Ilah al-Murtada, son of Muhammad,

    do you know of noble virtues surviving you?

  21. غابت كما غيبت بعدك في الثرى

    إلا طلول بعدكم أو ارسم

    They vanished as you were hidden in the earth,

    save ruined traces or faint remains after you.

  22. دفن التقى والعلم عندك والحجى

    فعليكم طرا أقيم المأتم

    Piety, knowledge, and wisdom were buried beside you;

    for all of you the mourning rite was held.

  23. حلت عقود المكرمات وقبل ذا

    كانت بطلعتك البهية تنظم

    The necklaces of noble virtues came undone; before this,

    they were strung together by your radiant countenance.

  24. وغدت حصون الدين بعدك صفصفا

    جرت بها الذيل الرياح السهم

    After you, the fortresses of faith became a level waste,

    where scorching winds trailed their skirts.

  25. وقناة بارعة العلا قد حطمت

    ولكم غدت بعلاك وهي تقوم

    The spear of surpassing glory has been shattered,

    though often it stood upright through your eminence.

  26. وحسام مجد لم يثلم حده

    فاليوم بعدك حده متثلم

    And the sword of glory, whose edge was never nicked—

    today, after you, its edge is notched.

  27. وأرى لسان الحمد بعدك أبكما

    مذ كُنت كان فمصقعا لا أبكم

    I see the tongue of praise mute after you;

    while you lived it was eloquent, not mute.

  28. قد كان بيتك كعبة مصمودة

    للخلق قاطبة وحوضك زمزم

    Your house was a Kaaba sought out

    by all creation, and your pool was Zamzam.

  29. ولأنت كالحجر الذي لا مشرك

    إلا وألثمها رضى أو مسلم

    You were surely like the Stone: no idolater

    or Muslim ever failed to kiss it willingly.

  30. وبحول دارك للوفود مراتع

    مرعت وغيبك في رباها ينجم

    Around your dwelling were pastures for visiting delegations;

    they grew lush, and your absence looms upon their hills.

  31. قدمت سعيك وهو منك موجز

    فينا وآخر ما بقي منهدم

    You sent your striving ahead, brief though it was

    among us; and the last of what remained lies ruined.

  32. فاليوم تبكيك العلا وبناتها

    فبناتها عند المهيمن أنتم

    Today high glory and its daughters weep for you;

    for you are its daughters before the All-Watching.

  33. وبكت عليك مساجد ومحاشد

    قد صنت ذيك وتلك عنها ثنهم

    Mosques and gathering places have wept for you:

    you protected these and those from them—[ending unclear].

  34. وبكت عليك عرائس وغرايس

    ومدارس يفهمن من لا يفهم

    Brides and saplings have wept for you,

    and schools that teach those who do not understand.

  35. وبكت عليك محابر ومنابر

    قد ألزمت فيك الثناء ويلزم

    Inkwells and pulpits have wept for you,

    bound to praise you—as indeed they must.

  36. وبكت عليك شرائع وشرائع

    مصحت وكتب بعد دفنك تلحم

    Sacred laws and watering places have wept for you,

    left dry, and books sealed shut after your burial.

  37. من ذا لمرملة يكون وأكمه

    ولمقعد إن راح دهر يغشم

    Who will be there for a destitute widow and a man born blind,

    and for the cripple, if Time becomes oppressive?

  38. من ذا يلاقي الركب في جوز الدجى

    والريح تعثر والسماء تنمنم

    Who will meet the caravan in the heart of darkness,

    with the wind stumbling and the sky murmuring,

  39. متهللا ماء الحياة بوجهه

    كالبدر أشرق في الدجنة يبسم

    beaming, the water of life upon his face,

    smiling like the full moon shining in the gloom?

  40. أو من لمعضلة يحل عقودها

    من بعد موتك أو لعقد يبرم

    Or who will untie the knots of a difficult case

    after your death, or bind a compact?

  41. من للهيف وللضعيف ومن يكن

    للمستجير إذا رابك سلم

    Who is there for the distressed and the weak, and who will be

    safety for the refuge-seeker when doubt unsettles you?

  42. فلأنت سيف اللَه والقطب الذي

    يهدى به وبه تحوط الأنجم

    You are surely God's sword, and the pole

    that guides, around which the stars revolve.

  43. ولرب ليل ميت أحييته

    حتى الصباح فكاد ساقك يورم

    How many a dead night you brought to life

    until dawn, until your leg almost swelled!

  44. وهجير صيف قد خلعت عذاره

    صوما وأنت المستغاث المطعم

    And summer's scorching heat—you stripped away its bridle

    through fasting, though you were the succorer, the giver of food.

  45. زهداً كأن النار لم تخلق إذاً

    إلا عليك ضرامها يتضرم

    So ascetic, as though the Fire had been created

    only for you, its blaze flaring against you.

  46. لولا أبوك محمد في علمنا

    قلنا لزهدك إن أمك مريم

    Had we not known your father was Muhammad,

    your asceticism would make us say your mother was Maryam.

  47. لولا يخلد بالمكارم والتقى

    أحد خلدت فأنت بر منعم

    Were immortality granted through noble deeds and piety

    to anyone, you would live forever: righteous and bountiful.

  48. إن كنت عند الله لاقيت الردى

    فلأنت للملقى حريص قيم

    If, in God's presence, you have met death,

    you are eager for that meeting, and steadfast.

  49. لم تخش في ركب المنون رزية

    بل أنت في وفد الإله مقدم

    You feared no calamity in death's caravan;

    rather, you lead the delegation to God.

  50. قد بنت عنا طاهر الأثواب وال

    آرات والأحساب لست تذمم

    You have departed from us, pure in garments and

    [an unclear attribute] and lineage, beyond reproach.

  51. يا ليت شعري هل غدوت معظما

    فيهم كما فينا فأنت معظم

    Would that I knew whether you have become honored

    among them as among us—for honored you are.

  52. وعمرت للأموات دوراً حجة

    وعلى الذي يمضي ولم يحمد دم

    You have dwelt a year in the dwellings of the dead;

    blame rests on the one who passes unpraised.

  53. وتفاخرت فيك البقاع فبقعة

    حليتها فلها الفخار الأدوم

    The regions vie in boasting of you; the spot

    you adorned has the most enduring honor.

  54. تكبيرتان حيال قبرك حجة

    درست بها فينا ديار منكم

    Two cries of 'God is greatest' beside your grave—a year

    in which dwellings of yours have faded among us.

  55. قم من ضريحك ساعة فعسى ترى

    بعمان بعدك من يسيء ويؤلم

    Rise from your tomb a moment; perhaps you will see

    those who wrong and cause pain in Oman after you.

  56. إن كنت تقدر أن تلم شتيتها

    لو منك طيف في المنام يسلم

    If you can gather its scattered people,

    even if only a phantom of you offers greetings in a dream,

  57. فافعل وأهل عمان بعدك ضيعة

    يقتادهم من راح فيهم يظلم

    then do so: Oman's people are abandoned after you,

    led captive by one who goes among them doing wrong.

  58. لولا ابن مداد المقدس أحمد

    صاكت بأهل عمان عطراً منشم

    Were it not for the sanctified Ahmad ibn Midad,

    Manshim would have daubed Oman's people with perfume.

  59. وتعظمظت لجج النفاق وغودرت

    سفن التقى بعبابه تتحطم

    The surges of hypocrisy would have swollen,

    leaving the ships of piety shattered in its flood.

  60. لكنه رأب الثأي وسما به

    علم صفى ونبي ودين قيم

    But he mended the breach, and through him rose

    the standard of a chosen one, a prophet, and an upright faith.

  61. فاضت به نزوى وأصبح أهلها

    حذر الحوادث حوله يتزمزم

    Nizwa overflowed with him, and its people began,

    fearing calamities, to murmur around him.

  62. فتكتفت منه بأرعن شاهق

    من دون قمته السها والمررم

    Through him it was girded by a rugged, towering mountain,

    beneath whose summit lie al-Suha and al-Marram.

  63. لاذت بحقويه الأمور كما به

    لاذوا ولاذ به اللواء الأعظم

    Affairs clung to his flanks, just as to him

    they clung, and the greatest banner sought refuge in him.

  64. يا أهل نزوى أنتم في نعمة

    ما سادكم هذا الكريم المنعم

    O people of Nizwa, you live in blessing

    so long as this noble benefactor rules you.

  65. ولأنتم في رحمة وسعادة

    مازال سيدكم رؤوفاً يرحم

    You are indeed in mercy and happiness

    so long as your lord remains compassionate and merciful.

  66. كونوا له ولداً يكن لكم أبا

    وتمسكوا بحباله واستعصموا

    Be children to him, and he will be a father to you;

    hold fast to his bonds and seek protection.

  67. كونوا على مر الحوادث واحدا

    ما قال عنكم أو عليكم قلتم

    Be one through the passage of calamities;

    whatever he says on your behalf or against you, say likewise.

  68. ها أنتم الشهدا وهذي داركم

    نزوى الجنان وما سوى فجهنم

    Here you are, the witnesses, and this is your dwelling:

    Nizwa is paradise; all besides it is hell.

  69. تهنون سكناها بجيرة أحمد

    فلأنتم ما عاش فيكم أنتم

    May you enjoy living there as Ahmad's neighbors;

    for as long as he lives among you, you are truly yourselves.

  70. وعليكم حسن العزا فيما مضى

    فسيلحق الباقي الذي يتقدم

    Yours is the duty of gracious consolation for what has passed;

    the one remaining will follow him who goes before.

  71. ذا كبكب منهم وهذا يذبل

    راسٍ وذا رضوى وذاك يلملم

    This one among them is Kabkab, and this is Yadhbul,

    firmly rooted; this is Radwa, and that is Yalamlam.

  72. وأخو المكارم راشد بن محمد

    وأبو علي صنوه المستعصم

    And Rashid ibn Muhammad, brother to noble virtues,

    and Abu Ali, his steadfast brother,

  73. وسعيد الزاكي وغسان الرضى

    والندب سلام الجواد الأكرم

    and Sa'id the pure, and Ghassan the well-approved,

    and the valiant Salam, generous and most noble.

  74. لم يخش من ريب الزمان طوارقاً

    إن ناب خطب في البرية معظم

    He feared no sudden blows from Time's vicissitudes,

    if a mighty calamity befell creation.

  75. حكم الإله عليك يا من حكمه

    حيا وميتاً في البرية يحكم

    God has passed judgment upon you, O you whose judgment,

    in life and death, rules over creation.

  76. وعليك صلى اللَه كل عشية

    وغدا الملائك طوع أمرك تخدم

    May God bless you every evening,

    and may the angels serve, obedient to your command.

  77. وبكت بقبرك مزنة حنانة

    وجرى سماها مثل سيبك ينجم

    May a yearning raincloud weep over your grave,

    its rain flowing, welling forth like your bounty.

  78. فيها البوارق مثل عزمك صلتاً

    وبها الرعود حكت وعيدك ترزم

    Its lightning flashes, unsheathed like your resolve,

    its thunders rumbling in imitation of your warning.

  79. وعليك صلى من على الأرضين أو

    من في السموات الطباق وسلموا

    May those upon the earths send you blessings, or

    those in the layered heavens, and offer you peace.