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 wife, nor sister.

  2. وَقَد تَحَمَّلتُ مِنَ الوِزرِ ما

    تَعجِزُ أَن تَحمِلَهُ البُختُ

    Yet I have borne a burden of sin that

    Bactrian camels cannot carry.

  3. إِن مَدَحوني ساءَني مَدحُهُم

    وَخِلتُ أَني في الثَرى سُختُ

    If they praise me, their praise distresses me,

    and I imagine I have sunk into the earth.

  4. جِسمِيَ أَنجاسٌ فَما سَرَّني

    أَنّي بِمِسكِ القَولِ ضُمِّختُ

    My body is filth; it gives me no joy

    to be anointed with the musk of words.

  5. مِن وَسَخٍ صاغَ الفَتى رَبُّهُ

    فَلا يَقولَنَّ تَوَسَّختُ

    From filth his Lord fashioned man;

    so let him never say, ‘I have become soiled.’

  6. وَالبَختُ في الأولى أَنالَ العُلى

    وَلَيسَ في آخِرَةٍ بَختُ

    And luck in this first life has bestowed high rank;

    but in the afterlife there is no luck.

  7. كَذاكَ قالوا وَأَحاديثُهُم

    يَبينُ فيها الجَزلُ وَالشَختُ

    Thus they said; and their accounts

    reveal the substantial and the flimsy.

  8. لَو جاءَ مِن أَهلِ البِلى مُخبِرٌ

    سَأَلتُ عَن قَومٍ وَأَرَّختُ

    If a bearer of news came from those claimed by decay,

    I would ask about people and record their history:

  9. هَل فازَ بِالجَنَّةِ عُمّالُها

    وَهَل ثَوى في النارِ نوبَختُ

    Have those who labored for Paradise won it?

    And has Nawbakht dwelt in the Fire?

  10. وَالظُلمُ أَن تَلزَمَ ما قَد جَنى

    عَلَيكَ بَهرامُ وَبَيدَختُ

    And it is unjust that you should answer for what

    Bahrām and Baydakht have wrought against you.

  11. وَبَعضُ ذا العالَمِ مِن بَعضِهِ

    لَولا إِياةٌ لَم يَكُن فَختُ

    And part of this world comes from another part;

    without sunlight, there would be no moonlight.