Sol 6.1

  1. بِنتُ عَنِ الدُنيا وَلا بِنتَ لي

    فيها وَلا عِرسٌ وَلا أُختُ

    I have parted from the world, and have no daughter

    in it, nor a wife, nor a sister.

  2. وَقَد تَحَمَّلتُ مِنَ الوِزرِ ما

    تَعجِزُ أَن تَحمِلَهُ البُختُ

    And I have borne a burden of sin that

    Bactrian camels are unable to carry.

  3. إِن مَدَحوني ساءَني مَدحُهُم

    وَخِلتُ أَني في الثَرى سُختُ

    If they praise me, their praise pains me,

    and I imagine I have sunk into the earth.

  4. جِسمِيَ أَنجاسٌ فَما سَرَّني

    أَنّي بِمِسكِ القَولِ ضُمِّختُ

    My body is filth, so it did not delight me

    that I was anointed with the musk of speech.

  5. مِن وَسَخٍ صاغَ الفَتى رَبُّهُ

    فَلا يَقولَنَّ تَوَسَّختُ

    From filth his Lord fashioned the young man,

    so let him not say, “I have become soiled.”

  6. وَالبَختُ في الأولى أَنالَ العُلى

    وَلَيسَ في آخِرَةٍ بَختُ

    And fortune in this life bestowed high rank,

    but there is no fortune in the hereafter.

  7. كَذاكَ قالوا وَأَحاديثُهُم

    يَبينُ فيها الجَزلُ وَالشَختُ

    Thus they said; and their accounts

    show both the substantial and the flimsy.

  8. لَو جاءَ مِن أَهلِ البِلى مُخبِرٌ

    سَأَلتُ عَن قَومٍ وَأَرَّختُ

    If a bearer of news came from the people of decay,

    I would ask about people and record their history:

  9. هَل فازَ بِالجَنَّةِ عُمّالُها

    وَهَل ثَوى في النارِ نوبَختُ

    Did those who labored for Paradise attain it?

    And did Nawbakht dwell in the Fire?

  10. وَالظُلمُ أَن تَلزَمَ ما قَد جَنى

    عَلَيكَ بَهرامُ وَبَيدَختُ

    And injustice is that you must answer for what

    Bahram and Baydakht have wrought against you.

  11. وَبَعضُ ذا العالَمِ مِن بَعضِهِ

    لَولا إِياةٌ لَم يَكُن فَختُ

    And one part of this universe comes from another:

    Were it not for sunlight, there would be no moonlight.