Sol 6.1

  1. أًهَجَرتَ عَبدَةَ أَم عَداكَ مَسيرُ

    لا بَل تُلِمُّ بِأَهلِها وَتَدورُ

    Have you forsaken ʿAbda, or has a journey kept you away?

    No, rather, you visit her people and circle round.

  2. زَعَمَ المُشيرُ بِيَ الصَغيرُ مِنَ الهَوى

    وَفِراقُهُ حَدَثٌ عَليَّ كَبيرُ

    The one who spoke of me claimed my love was slight,

    yet parting from him is a great calamity to me.

  3. بِأَبي وَأُمّي وَالعَشيرَةِ كُلِّها

    شَخصٌ هُناكَ ضَجيعُهُ مَحيورُ

    May my father, my mother, and all the clan be ransom for

    that person there, whose bedfellow is bewildered.

  4. شَخصٌ إِذا التَبَسَت بِعَيني عَينُهُ

    حَلَفَ النَواسِكُ أَنَّني مَسحورُ

    One whose eye, when it mingles with mine,

    makes the ascetics swear that I am bewitched.

  5. يا صاحِ بُح بِهَوى أَخيكَ وَبُثَّهُ

    إِن كانَ مِنكَ عَلى الحَبيبِ مُرورُ

    O friend, reveal your brother’s love and make it known,

    if your way should take you past the beloved.

  6. ما إِن وَراءَكُمُ عَليهِ مِنَ الهَوى

    عُسرٌ وَما مِن دونِكُم تَيسيرُ

    Beyond you, love holds for him no

    hardship; and without you there is no ease.

  7. أَنّى ظَنَنتِ بِهِ الظُنونَ وَقَلبُهُ

    يا عَبدَ في لُجَجِ الهَوى مَغمورُ

    How could you harbor suspicions of him, when his heart,

    O ʿAbda, is submerged in the deep seas of love?

  8. إِن قُلتِ أَقصِر عَنكَ أَقصَرَ قَلبُهُ

    وَبَدا عَلَيهِ مِن العَزاءِ نَذيرُ

    If you said, “Desist,” his heart would hold back from you,

    and a harbinger of resignation would appear upon him.

  9. فَدَنا ليُلحِقَ عَينَهُ بِسُرورِها

    وَدُنُوُّ مَن بَتَلَ الفُؤادَ سُرورُ

    Then he draws near to bring his eye its joy,

    and nearness to the one who cleft the heart is joy.

  10. إِنَّ المُحِبَّ بِأَن يَلَذَّ حَبيبَهُ

    وَيَمَلَّ مَن لا يَستَلِذُّ جَديرُ

    A lover is indeed entitled to delight in his beloved

    and to tire of one in whom he finds no pleasure.

  11. حَتّى مَتى تُبقي لِنَفسِكِ حُبَّهُ

    وَالمَرءُ يَصبِرُ إِنَّهُ لَصَبورُ

    How long will you keep his love for yourself,

    while the man endures—patient indeed?

  12. أَعُبَيدَ هَلّا تَنقَمينَ عَلى فَتىً

    نَفِدَت رُقاهُ وَسُقمُهُ مَوتورُ

    O ʿUbayda, will you not take vengeance on a youth

    whose healing charms are spent and whose sickness is unavenged?

  13. عَجِلٌ بِحُبِّكِ مَوتُهُ عَن يَومِهِ

    إِن لَم يُجِرهُ مِن هَواكِ مُجيرُ

    Through love of you, his death hastens before its day,

    unless a protector shelters him from love of you.

  14. لا تَشتَرينَ مَنِيَّتي بِهَواكُمُ

    فِإِلى المَماتِ بِما لَقيتُ أَصيرُ

    Do not buy my death with love of you;

    for, through what I have suffered, I am headed for death.

  15. هَمُّ يُوَكِّلُني بِحُبِّكِ وَالرَدى

    عِلمي بِذَلِكَ أَنَّهُ مَقدورُ

    Sorrow binds me to love of you; as for death,

    my knowledge of it is that it is decreed.

  16. ما زالَ بي سَنَنُ الصِبا وَبِحاجَتي

    حَتّى أَتَيتُكِ وَالعُيونُ حُمورُ

    Youth’s course kept driving me and my longing on,

    until I came to you, when eyes were red.

  17. فَالعَينُ حينَ أَرومُ هَجرَكِ طُرفَةٌ

    وَعَلى فُؤادي مِن هَواكِ أَميرُ

    So the eye, when I seek to forsake you, is a marvel,

    and over my heart is a ruler born of love for you.

  18. قَلبٌ أُسَكِّنُهُ إِذا جَمَحَ الهَوى

    فَيَطيرُ نَحوَكِ أَو يَكادُ يَطيرُ

    A heart I soothe when passion runs wild,

    then it flies toward you, or almost flies.

  19. إِنّي وَإِن قَصُرَت خُطايَ لَنازِحٌ

    مِن هَجرِ بَيتِكِ غَيرُهُ المَهجورُ

    I am, though my steps fall short, far indeed

    from shunning your house; it is another that is shunned.

  20. إِلّا تَثاقُلَ عاشِقٍ أَو قُربَهُ

    بِالحُبِّ لَيسَ لَهُ عَليكِ نُذورُ

    Except for a lover’s tarrying or his nearness,

    through love; he has no vows binding you.

  21. ذَهَبَ الفُؤادُ إِلى عُبَيدَةَ بَعدَما

    أَثِرَت مَعالِمَهُ وَقَلَّ خَبيرُ

    The heart went to ʿUbayda, after

    its landmarks had faded, and few knew them.

  22. وَلَقَد أُبَصِّره عَليَّ وَقَد يَرى

    نُصحي فَيَعرِفُ قَصدَهُ وَيجور

    Indeed I enlighten it, to my own hurt; it may see

    my counsel, know its proper course, yet stray.

  23. وَكَفاكَ مِن عَجَبٍ تَجَنُّبُ رُشدِهِ

    وَطِلابُ ما تَهوَى وَأَنتَ بَصيرُ

    Wonder enough for you is its shunning the right path

    and pursuing what you desire, though you see clearly.

  24. قالَت عُبَيدَةُ إِذ سَأَلتُ قَليلَها

    وَرَغِبتُ إِنَّ كَبيرَها مَحظورُ

    ʿUbayda said, when I asked a little of her

    and longed for it—for her greater favors are forbidden—

  25. أَلاعَلِمتَ وَأَنتَ غَيرُ مُفَنَّدٍ

    أَنَّ القَليلَ إِلى القَليلِ كَثيرُ

    “Do you not know—and you are no fool—

    that little added to little makes much?”

  26. فَضَحِكتُ مِن عَجَبٍ وَقُلتُ لِصاحِبي

    كَفِّن أَخاكَ فَإِنَّهُ مَقبورُ

    So I laughed in wonder and said to my companion,

    “Shroud your brother, for he is buried.”