Sol 6.1

  1. لا تُسدِيَنَّ قَبيحاً إِن هَمَمتَ بِهِ

    وَاِفعَل جَميلاً فَإِنَّ الخَيرَ يُغتَنَمُ

    Never commit an ugly deed, should you contemplate it.

    And do good, for goodness is a prize to be seized.

  2. إِن فارَقَتني حَياتي خِلتُني صَنَماً

    وَلا يُراعُ لِكَسرِ الهامَةِ الصَنَمُ

    If my life leaves me, I would deem myself an idol,

    and an idol is not frightened when its head is broken.

  3. فَاِجعَل عِظامِيَ قِرى غَبراءَ مُظلِمَةٍ

    أَو قوتَ حَمراءِ نارٍ ضَوءُها سَنِمُ

    So make my bones a feast for dark, dust-gray earth,

    or food for red fire whose light towers high.

  4. سَوّى عَلى الجِسمِ خُضُرٌ حَوَتها جَشِعٌ

    بَعدَ المَماتِ وَخُضرٌ زُرقُها تَنِمُ

    All one to the body are green seas whose fish are ravenous,

    after death, and green flies whose blue ones leave droppings.

  5. قَطعُ البَنانِ شَبَّهتُهُ عَنَماً

    إِن ماتَ كَالقَطعِ في قُضبٍ هِيَ العَنَمُ

    Cutting fingers I likened to the ‘anam shrub,

    if they are dead, is like cutting twigs of ‘anam itself.

  6. وَالغانِياتُ وَفي آذانِها دُرَرٌ

    كَالضَأنِ تَرعى وَفي آذانِها زَنَمُ

    And beautiful women, with pearls in their ears,

    are like grazing sheep with wattles in their ears.