Sol 6.1

  1. روق الكَأس وَعجل بِالندامى

    إِنَّني أَصبَحت مَملوءاً غَراما

    Clarify the cup’s wine, and hurry the drinking companions here.

    Indeed, I have become filled with passion.

  2. وَائت بِالقَهوة راحاً قرقفاً

    خَندَريساً أَدرَكت ساماً وَحاما

    And bring the wine, a draught that makes one shiver,

    An ancient vintage that knew Shem and Ham.

  3. شاب مِنها الرَأس في حانوتها

    فَكَسَوناها مِن البلور جاما

    The head grew gray from it within its tavern,

    So we clothed it in a goblet of crystal.

  4. كُلَّما باشرها الماء جلا

    ثَغرها فَانظر لِتَزويج الأَيامى

    Whenever water touched it, it bared

    Its mouth; behold the marriage of the unwed.

  5. لَقحت مِنهُ فَأَلقت أَنجُما

    كَقِباب الدر لا تَخشى الفِطاما

    By the water it conceived and brought forth stars,

    Like domes of pearl, fearing no weaning.

  6. فاسقينها نَهلا في علل

    وَاترك اللاحي وَإِن صَلى وَصاما

    So do serve it, first draughts and draughts again,

    And leave the reproacher, even though he pray and fast.

  7. إِنَما العُمر كَظل زائل

    يَتَلاشى مدة عاماً فَعاما

    Life is only a passing shadow,

    Fading away with time, year after year.

  8. وَكَذاكَ الوَقت سَيف قاطع

    فأقم في رَأسه مِنك حساما

    And time likewise is a cutting sword;

    So set a keen blade of your own against its head.

  9. إِنَّما العَيش شَباب وَصِبا

    وَصبوح وَمُناداة الندامى

    Life is but youth and boyhood,

    And morning wine and calling to drinking companions.

  10. فاغتنم فُرصة وَقت ما له

    عوض وَاشرب سلافا وَمداها

    So seize the chance of a time that has no

    Replacement; drink pure wine to the full,

  11. في رِياض عبث الريح بِها

    فَشَمَمنا مِنهُ أَرواح الخُزامى

    In gardens where the wind has played,

    So we inhaled from it the scents of lavender.

  12. وَحَباها الطل مِنهُ لُؤلُؤا

    راقَ للناظر نَثراً وَنِظاما

    And dew bestowed upon them pearls of its own,

    Pleasing the beholder, scattered and strung.

  13. يا بَريقا لاحَ مِن أَعلى منى

    زادَكَ اللَه اِبتِهاجاً وَاِبتِساما

    O gleam that shone from the heights of Mina,

    May God increase your joy and smiles.

  14. إِن قَلبي ضاعَ في ربعكم

    وَعَجيب في حِماكُم أَن يُضاما

    Indeed, my heart was lost within your dwelling,

    And strange that it should be wronged under your protection.

  15. كُلما هبت لَهُ ريح الصبا

    زادَ شَوقاً للقاكم وَهياما

    Whenever the east wind blew upon it,

    It grew in longing to meet you and in love-madness.

  16. وَمَتى غَنت حَمامات اللوى

    ذكرته في رُبى نَجد بشاما

    And whenever the doves of al-Liwa sang,

    They recalled to it the balsam trees on Najd’s hills.

  17. يا رعى اللَه لَيالي بِالحِمى

    كُل عَيش بَعدها صارَ حماما

    Ah, may God preserve those nights within the sanctuary!

    All life after them became death.

  18. قَد سَرَقنا لذة العُمر بِها

    وَالمُنى لَكنها كانَت مَناما

    In those nights we stole life’s delight,

    And our wishes—but it was a dream.

  19. أَيُها اللائم قَلبي بِالهَوى

    خلني وَاترك عَن القَلب الملاما

    O you who reproach my heart for love,

    Leave me be, and spare the heart reproach.

  20. ثُم سر بي نَحوَ سربي فالقوى

    للجوى أَضحَت مَناخاً وَمَقاما

    Then journey with me toward my flock, for my strength

    Has become an encampment and abode for love’s anguish.

  21. ما ترى العيس إِلَيهم عتقاً

    تَتَرامى عَلها تَقضي المراما

    Do you not see the noble-bred pale camels toward them

    Pressing onward, hoping to attain the goal?

  22. قَد بَراها السير نصاً فَالبرا

    حَلها الوَخد نحولاً وَسقاما

    Hard-driven travel has worn them down; their nose-rings

    Have been loosened by swift pacing, through leanness and sickness.

  23. يا لَها اللَه مواض للسهى

    تركتها شقق البين سهاما

    O God, how they press onward toward Suha!

    The long reaches of separation have made them arrows.

  24. نشقت مِن آل فَخر نفحة

    فَطَوَت براً وَبَحراً وَأَكاما

    They inhaled a waft from the house of Fakhr,

    And so traversed land, sea, and hills.

  25. حلفت إِن لَم تَذُق طَعم الكَرى

    لا وَلا تَختار للطرف مَناما

    They swore they would not taste the savor of slumber,

    No, nor choose sleep for the eye.

  26. لَو أتوني حَضرة قَد حسنت

    للموافي مُستقراً وَمقاما

    If only they came to me at a court made fair

    As a resting place and abode for the arriving guest.

  27. حَضرة فاقت سَناء وَسَنى

    وَحَوَت مِن مَعدن اللُطف كِراما

    A court surpassing others in eminence and radiance,

    And holding noble men from kindness’s own mine.

  28. شيدت مِن آل فَخر بالتُقى

    فبها كُل فَخار قَد تَسامى

    Raised by the house of Fakhr through piety,

    Where every glory has risen high.

  29. سادة لاحَ سَناهُم في السَما

    فَغَدوا للعلم وَالحلم سَناما

    Lords whose radiance shone in heaven,

    And who became the summit of learning and forbearance.

  30. نزل الوَحي بِأَبياتهم

    فَعلمنا مِنه حلا وَحَراما

    Revelation descended in their houses,

    And from it we learned the lawful and the forbidden.

  31. خَفَقت فَوقَ السُهى أَعلامهم

    فَطَوَت في نَشرِها مصراً وَشاما

    Their banners fluttered above Suha,

    And in their unfurling enfolded Egypt and Syria.

  32. سَل جُيوش الفُرس عَنهُم ما لَقَت

    مِن كِرام رَكبوا الخَيل كِراما

    Ask the Persian armies about them: what did they suffer

    From noble men who mounted horses nobly?

  33. زحموا إِيوانهم في مَوكب

    ترك النيران تَشكوه الزحاما

    They thronged their palace hall in a procession

    That left the fires complaining to it of the crush.

  34. تحسب الفَيلَق مِنهُم في الوَغى

    قَبساً يشعل في الحَرب ضراما

    You would think their legion in battle

    A firebrand kindling a blaze in war.

  35. وَتخال البيض نَجماً ساطِعاً

    وَسَحاباً يُمطر المَوت رُكاما

    And you would think the white blades a shining star,

    And massed clouds raining death.

  36. كَم لَهُم في الدين أَيد أَيدت

    وَلَها دانَت وَفيها الحَق داما

    How many hands of theirs have strengthened faith—

    To them submission was yielded, and through them truth endured.

  37. وَعُلوم كَشَفَت كُل عَمى

    وَعَناء وَضَلالاً وَظَلاما

    And sciences that dispelled all blindness,

    And hardship, error, and darkness.

  38. قُل لِمَن يُنكر جَهلاً فَضلَهُم

    لَستُ بِالأَعمى وَلَكن تَتَعامى

    Tell whoever ignorantly denies their excellence:

    I am not blind, but you feign blindness.

  39. قُم لِعَبد اللَه وَانظر طلعة

    مِن سَماها طَلع البَدر تَماما

    Rise for Abd Allah, and behold a countenance

    From whose heaven the moon rose full.

  40. هاشمي هشمت فطنته

    هَيكل الجَهل وَأَولاه حساما

    A Hashimite whose insight shattered

    The temple of ignorance, and who dealt it a sword-blow.

  41. نَبع العرفان مِن أَعضائِه

    فَتَراها سائر الدَهر سجاما

    Knowledge gushed from his limbs,

    So you see them pouring forth for all time.

  42. قَد حَكى نائله الغَيث كَما

    قَد حَكَت أَنمله البيض غماما

    His bounty resembled rain, just as

    His white fingertips resembled clouds.

  43. مَن يُجاريه إِذا البحث دجا

    وَالجَواد الحُر سبقاً لَن يُراما

    Who can keep pace with him when inquiry grows dark?

    And the noble thoroughbred can never be matched in a race.

  44. كَم مَحَت أَقلامه مِن بدع

    أَورثت في صَفحة الدين رغاما

    How many innovations his pens have erased,

    Which had cast dust upon the page of faith!

  45. كُلما مَرت عَلى نيرانها

    كانَت النيران بَرداً وَسَلاما

    Whenever they passed over their fires,

    The fires became coolness and peace.

  46. وَأَياد مِن أَياديه بَدَت

    قَد رَبت في حجرها كُل اليَتامى

    And favors from his hands have appeared,

    That reared all orphans in their lap.

  47. وَتَلاه في المَعالي كُلها

    أَسعد الغرة علما وَاحتراما

    And following him in every excellence was

    As‘ad, radiant of brow, in learning and honor.

  48. وافر الحشمة ندب طاهر

    ألمعي بِحُقوق المَجد قاما

    Abundant in dignity, gallant and pure,

    Keen-witted, he upheld the claims of glory.

  49. تنشق الأَلطاف مِن أَعطافه

    كُلما حركته زاد اهتِماما

    You inhale kindness from his very person;

    Whenever you stir him, he grows more attentive.

  50. قَد حَكَت أَخلاقه أَخلاقهم

    وَمعاليه معاليهم تَماما

    His character mirrored theirs,

    And his excellences theirs, completely.

  51. وَزَكا علماً وَحلماً وَتقى

    وَنَوالا وَكَمالا وَكَلاما

    And he flourished in learning, forbearance, and piety,

    And bounty, perfection, and speech.

  52. ما رأَينا مثله بَحراً طَمى

    فَغَدا في جودِهِ فَرداً هماما

    We have never seen his like: a surging sea,

    So he became peerless in generosity, magnanimous.

  53. يا بَني فَخر خذوها غضة

    وَاعذروا قَلباً مُصابا مُستَهاما

    O sons of Fakhr, accept it fresh and tender,

    And pardon a stricken, love-distraught heart.

  54. ما لَهُ مِن مَدحكم بد وَهَل

    يَترك الفَرض إِذا صارَ لِزاما

    It cannot do without praising you; and does one

    Abandon a duty once it becomes binding?

  55. وَهوَ في البُعد وَإن شَط بِه

    أَبَداً يَرعى عهوداً وَذماما

    And though far away, however far distance carries it,

    It always honors pledges and sacred bonds.

  56. وَتَهنوا بِتَمام الصوم في

    طاعة ما خامرت فيهِ أَثاما

    And rejoice at completing the fast in

    Obedience unmingled with sin throughout it.

  57. لَيسَ مَن صام وَصلى لاهيا

    مثل من بِاللَه قَد صَلى وَصاما

    One who fasts and prays heedlessly is not

    Like one who, through God, has prayed and fasted.