Sol 6.1

  1. أَريقي الدمع يا مقلي أَريقي

    على أمي وابن أخي الشقيق

    Pour forth tears, O my eyes, pour forth,

    for my mother and the son of my full brother.

  2. ويا حسرات نفسي لا تأتي

    ردافا بالزفير وبالشهيق

    And, O my soul's sorrows, do not come

    one after another, with sighing and gasping.

  3. ويا كبدي بنار الحزن ذوبي

    ويا روحي لشوقهم فسوقي

    O my liver, melt in the fire of grief,

    and, O my soul, breathe your last from longing for them.

  4. لقد أخذ التمام الحزن مني

    وَأَولاني السرور من المحوق

    Grief has taken the whole of me,

    and joy has granted me a share of ruin.

  5. أَفيقي ويك عاذلتي أَفيقي

    فما أَنا من بكاي بمستفيق

    Come to your senses—woe to you, my reproacher—come to your senses,

    for I shall not recover from my weeping.

  6. لقد نسق البكاء عليّ حزني

    بإبن أخ وأم بي شفيق

    My grief has made my weeping unceasing

    for a brother's son and a mother tender toward me.

  7. فما لمعبد باكٍ حزين

    بماء شئون مقلته غريق

    What can a weeping, sorrowful thrall do,

    drowned in the waters of his eye's tear ducts?

  8. يصعد بالزفير سعير حزن

    يقلب بالشهيق على الحريق

    With his sighs a blaze of grief rises;

    with his gasps he is tossed upon the fire.

  9. شجاني الحزن في الحلقوم حتى

    لكدت أغص من شجو بريقي

    Grief has choked me in the throat, until

    from anguish I nearly choke on my own saliva.

  10. وقد سد الطريق عليّ دمعي

    أسىً حتى عميت عن الطريق

    My tears have blocked my path

    from sorrow, until I was blind to the road.

  11. ومن ذا لائمي مما ألاقي

    ومن لي بالولوع وبالولوق

    Who would blame me for what I endure?

    And who will help me in my yearning and consuming love?

  12. مضت أمي لها شهر فأودى

    على آثارها ولد الشقيق

    My mother had been gone a month; then perished,

    in her footsteps, the son of my full brother.

  13. وهم ماء الحياة فغض عني

    وهم فرعي فبت وهم عروقي

    They were life's water, now ebbed away from me;

    they were my bough; I remain, and they are my roots.

  14. كأن الموت يطلبني بثأر

    فأدركني على حر الطريق

    As though Death were pursuing me for vengeance,

    it caught me in the middle of the road.

  15. ولو كان الخيار إليّ منهم

    فديتهما من الرهن الغليق

    Had the choice among them been mine,

    I would have ransomed them both from that pledge beyond redemption.

  16. وكيف حياة ذي لهف حزين

    إِلى إدراك من يهوى مشوق

    What life can a sorrowful man in anguish have,

    yearning to reach those he loves?

  17. ومن عجب تعيرني أناس

    وهم في الحزن ما سلكوا طريقي

    How strange that people should reproach me,

    though in grief they have not walked my road.

  18. وما يدرون أن عزيز صبري

    أعز عليّ من بيض الأنوق

    They do not know that my elusive patience

    is harder for me to find than an Egyptian vulture's eggs.

  19. وقد لذت لي الأحزان حتى

    لنفسي لم أقل يا نفس ذوقي

    Sorrows have grown so sweet to me that

    I have not told my soul, 'O soul, taste!'

  20. وسرتني الرعود وقد جدتها

    جنابيها بسارية دفوق

    Thunder gladdened me, as it drenched

    its two flanks with a cloud pouring rain by night.

  21. ولم أبغض سوى سن ضحوك

    على حزني ولو ضحك البروق

    I hated nothing but a tooth bared in laughter

    at my grief—even the laughter of lightning.

  22. إذا سجع الحمام على هديل

    وظل الغدف يردف بالنعيق

    When doves coo their song,

    and black ravens keep following with croaks,

  23. ألام إذا بكيت على قبيل

    فإني بالبكاء لبالخليق

    I am blamed when I weep for Qubayl,

    yet surely weeping befits me.

  24. نشا منشا السحابة وقت محل

    وغابت غير واكفة عروقي

    He rose like a cloud in a season of drought,

    then vanished without raining upon my roots.

  25. كأن مقامه أبدا لدينا

    مقام الطيف بالليل الطروق

    As though his stay among us had always been

    a passing phantom's visit in the night.

  26. فإنك حمزة فينا كمي

    عليّ الطرف والقدر السبوق

    For you, Hamza, were an armored warrior among us,

    lofty in gaze and rank, ever foremost.

  27. سقى الرحمن قبرك يا قبيل

    وقبر الأم بالبلد السحيق

    May the All-Merciful water your grave, Qubayl,

    and my mother's grave in the distant land,

  28. من السحب السواري والغوادي

    معاقبة الرواعد والبروق

    from clouds passing by night and at dawn,

    with thunderclouds and lightning following in turn.

  29. وتلقى أم والدك المفدى

    وأم عميمك المضنى الولوق

    And may you meet the mother of your cherished father,

    and the mother of your little uncle, wasted with love,

  30. بجنات النعيم غدا لتسقى

    وتسقيك الكؤوس من الرحيق

    tomorrow in the gardens of bliss, to be given drink,

    and she serves you cups of pure wine.

  31. ونرجو اللَه يجمعنا جميعاً

    بكم ونسر منكم باللحوق

    And we hope that God will gather us all

    with you, and that we may rejoice in joining you.

  32. وصلى اللَه مولانا عليكم

    خلاف محمد ثاني عتيق

    And may God, our Master, bless you,

    after Muhammad, Atiq's companion.