Sol 6.1

  1. أَهلاً بِغائِلَةِ الرَدى وَإِيابِها

    كَيما تُسَتِّرُني بِفَضلِ ثِيابِها

    Welcome to death's calamity and its return,

    that it may cover me with the trailing folds of its garments.

  2. دُنياكَ دارٌ إِن يَكُن شُهّادُها

    عُقَلاءَ لا يَبكوا عَلى غُيّابِها

    Your world is a dwelling: if those present in it are

    wise, they do not weep for those absent from it.

  3. قَد أَظهَرَت نُوَباً تَزيدُ عَلى الحَصى

    عَدَداً وَكَم في ضَبنِها وَعِيابِها

    She has revealed calamities exceeding the pebbles

    in number—and how many lie in her bosom and her bags!

  4. تَفريهِمُ بِسُيوفِها وَتَكُبُّهُم

    بِرِماحِها وَتَنالُهُم بِصُيابِها

    She rends them with her swords and casts them down

    with her spears, and strikes them with her downpours.

  5. ما الظافِرونَ بِعِزِّها وَيَسارِها

    إِلّا قَريبو الحالِ مِن خُيّابِها

    Those who win her glory and her wealth are

    only close in circumstance to those she disappoints.

  6. أَنيابُ جامِعَةِ السِمامِ فَمُ الَّتي

    أَطغَت فَخِلتُ الراحَ في أَنيابِها

    A venom-gathering serpent's fangs are the mouth of her

    who incited excess, so I fancied wine in her fangs.

  7. إِنَّ المَنِيَّةَ لَم تَهَب مُتَهَيَّباً

    فَالعَجزُ وَالتَفريطُ في هُيّابِها

    Indeed, death has never feared one who fears her;

    so helplessness and negligence lie in those who dread her.

  8. وَمِنَ العَجائِبِ أَنَّ كُلّاً راغِبٌ

    في أُمِّ دَفرٍ وَهوَ مِن عُيّابِها

    And among the wonders is that everyone longs

    for Umm Dafr, Mother of Stench, though he is among her detractors.

  9. فَاِتفُل عَنِ التُربِ الفَصاحَةَ إِنَّها

    تَقضي لِناعيها عَلى زُريابِها

    So spit eloquence away from the dust, for it

    rules for her death-announcer against her Ziryab.