Sol 6.1

  1. مضيت وخلفت القذى بمحاجري

    وأججت نيران الاسى بضمائري

    You departed and left grit in my eye sockets.

    And kindled the fires of sorrow in my innermost thoughts.

  2. فقدتك فقدان النواظر ضوءها

    وليتك تفدى في ضياء النواظر

    I lost you as eyes lose their light.

    And would that you could be ransomed with the eyes' light.

  3. ذخرتك لي حصنا يقيني من الردى

    وأنت لعمري من أعز الذخاير

    I kept you as my fortress, protecting me from death,

    And, by my life, you are among the most precious treasures.

  4. ولدنا يرد الضد منتكس اللوى

    وعضبا به تثنى حدود البواتر

    And a supple spear that drives the foe back with his banner overturned,

    And a keen sword by which the edges of sharp swords are bent.

  5. فهذي دموعي لؤلؤاً قد نثرتها

    وان نفذت أذري عقيق المحاجر

    So these tears of mine are pearls I have scattered;

    And if they run out, I will scatter the carnelian of my eye sockets.

  6. شعاري مرائي مالك من متمم

    وازعاج جاري بالبكا من شعائري

    My watchword is Mutammim's elegies for Malik,

    And disturbing my neighbor with weeping is one of my rites.

  7. حزازات وجد في فؤادي تتابعت

    لفقد ابي يحيى كحز الخناجر

    Pangs of grief followed one another in my heart,

    For the loss of Abu Yahya, like the cuts of daggers.

  8. احاشيك نور العين من رقدة الثرى

    عفيرا وان تمسي ضجيع المقابر

    I would spare you, light of my eye, from slumber in the dust,

    Dust-covered, even though you have become the graves' bedfellow.

  9. منابر نعي في رثاك نصبتها

    لأنك أحرى في رقي المنابر

    I have raised pulpits of mourning in lament for you,

    For you are worthier of ascending pulpits.

  10. قصمت قرى ظهري بأدهى زية

    يقل لعمري عندها صبر صابر

    You broke my backbone with the direst calamity,

    Before which, by my life, even the patient one's patience wanes.

  11. بقربك كانت بهجتي وبشاشتي

    وبعدك عني كالشجا بحناجري

    When you were near, I had joy and cheerfulness,

    And your distance from me is like a bone lodged in my throat.

  12. لقد كنت قبل اليوم لم أعرف البكا

    لبعد قريب أو فراق مجاور

    Indeed, before today I had not known weeping,

    For a kinsman's absence or a neighbor's departure.

  13. وها أنا إن ناحت بقربي حمامة

    لفقد أليف كنت اسرع ناصر

    And here I am: if a dove laments near me,

    For the loss of a mate, I would be the quickest to offer aid.

  14. لقد كان شملي كالثريا مؤلفا

    ومثل سهيل ضار ناتي المجاور

    Indeed, my circle was united like the Pleiades,

    And, like Suhayl, it became distant from its neighbor.

  15. وسدد لي الدهر الخؤون سهامه

    وفوقها نحوي فخطن محاجري

    And treacherous Time aimed his arrows at me,

    And nocked them toward me, so they stitched through my eye sockets.

  16. أكان له عندي ترات تتابعت

    فكافأني عنها ببطشة قادر

    Did he have grudges against me, one following another,

    That he repaid me for them with a mighty one's onslaught?

  17. أخي كان عمر الدهر عندي لحظة

    بقربك والديجور أزهر زاهر

    My brother, Time's whole span was a moment to me,

    With you near, and deep darkness was bright and radiant.

  18. وها انا مد الطرف عندي ورجعة

    كعمر الليالي والقرون الغغواير

    And now, to me, a glance's outward reach and return

    Are like the span of nights and bygone centuries.

  19. وعندي نور البدور والشمس بالضحى

    كلون ليالي من جمادي مواطر

    And to me, the light of full moons and the sun at midmorning

    Is like the hue of rainy nights in Jumada.

  20. فقدتك كالعقد الثمين نفاسة

    وأنك أغلى من غوالي الجواهر

    I lost you, as precious as a costly necklace,

    And you are dearer than the most precious jewels.