Sol 6.1

  1. أَتَراكَ يَوماً قائِلاً عَن نِيَةٍ

    خَلَصَت لِنَفسكَ يا لَجوجُ تَراكِ

    Will you ever say, with an intention

    sincere in your soul, O obstinate one, 'Desist!'

  2. أَدراكَ دَهرُكَ عَن تُقاكَ بِجَهدِهِ

    فَدَراكِ مِن قَبلِ الفَواتِ دَراكِ

    Has your time driven you from your piety with all its might?

    Then hasten before it is too late—hasten!

  3. أَبراكَ رَبُّكَ فَوقَ ظَهرِ مَطيَّةٍ

    سارَت لِتَبلُغَ ساعَةَ الإِبراكِ

    Has your Lord fashioned you upon the back of a mount

    that journeyed to reach the hour of being made to kneel?

  4. أَفَراكِنٌ أَنا لِلزَمانِ بِمُحصِدٍ

    بانَت عَلَيهِ شَواهِدُ الأَفراكِ

    Am I, then, trusting Time with a crop ripe for harvest,

    on which the signs of ripeness have appeared?

  5. أَشراكَ ذَنبُكَ وَالمُهَيمِنُ غافِرٌ

    ما كانَ مِن خَطَإٍ سِوى الإِشراكِ

    Has your sin sold you, though the Guardian forgives

    every error except associating partners with God?

  6. ما بالُ دينِكَ ناقِصاً آلاتُهُ

    وَالنَعلُ ما نَفَعَت بِغَيرِ شِراكِ

    What ails your faith, its implements deficient,

    when a sandal is no use without a strap?

  7. وَعَرّاكَ رازِيَةُ الحُقوقِ فَلَم تَقُم

    لِلحَقِّ إِلّا بَعدَ طولِ عِراكِ

    And the despoiler of rights stripped you bare, so you did not stand

    for what is right until after a long struggle.

  8. واراكَ يا سَمعُ الحِمامُ فَلم تُبِن

    سَجعَ الحَمامِ بِأَسجَلٍ وَأَراكِ

    Death concealed you, O hearing, so you could not discern

    the doves' cooing amid asjal and arāk trees.

  9. أَصبَحتُ مِن سَكَنِ الحَياةِ وَواجِبٌ

    يَوماً سُكوني بَعدَ طولِ حَراكِ

    I have become one of life's inhabitants, and inevitable

    is my stillness one day, after long movement.

  10. وَالطَيرُ تَلتَمِسُ المَعاشَ غَوادِياً

    في الأَرضِ وَهِيَ كَثيرَةُ الأَشراكِ

    And the birds seek their livelihood, setting out in the morning,

    upon the earth, which is full of snares.