Sol 6.1

  1. أيا ضابطي شرعِ الكنيسة عَنوةً

    فلم حُزتمُ عدلاً وحزتم به عدلا

    O you who enforce the Church's law by force,

    Why, then, have you acquired justice and gained recompense through it?

  2. صدقتم ولكنَّ الزمان مواربٌ

    وكلٌّ له فنٌّ به يقتضي شغلا

    You spoke truly, but the times are deceitful,

    And each has a craft by which he seeks work.

  3. فلما رأينا الدهر للحق مائلاً

    جنحنا فكان الظلام في شرعنا عدلا

    So when we saw the age inclining toward truth,

    We inclined, and darkness became justice in our law.

  4. ولو لم نَجُر في الحكم أصبح عِرضُنا

    وعرض الذي نحميه بين الورى عذلا

    And had we not judged unjustly, our honor would have become—

    And the honor of him we protect—a target of reproach among mankind.

  5. لأنا بِواديه مقيمون والذي

    يراه نراه والهوى جامعٌ شملا

    For we dwell in his valley, and whatever

    He sees, we see, and desire binds us together.

  6. فلا تنكروا منا ومنه تريُّباً

    إذا كان دمع العين للإثم ذا غسلا

    So do not condemn suspicious conduct in us and in him,

    If the eye's tears wash away this sin.

  7. فكم هفوةٍ جاءت بأثواب توبةٍ

    تجرِّر أذيالاً تواري بها فعلا

    For many a lapse has come in robes of repentance,

    Dragging hems with which it conceals a deed.

  8. ومن قبلُ قد شانت مقام رسولها

    فكم صدَّقت رسلاً وكم كذَّبت رسلا

    And before, she had disgraced her messenger's station;

    How many messengers she believed, and how many messengers she called liars!

  9. ألا إنما عقل الحكيم منزَّهٌ

    عن الجهل فيما يقتضي العقل والجهلا

    Behold, only the wise man's reason is free

    From ignorance in what calls for reason and ignorance.