لكنَّbut دونbarring access to الخُبزthe bread فيin دارهِhis house
لكنَّ دون الخُبز في دارهِ
وقائعَbattles الدَّيلَمِthe Daylamites والتُّركِand the Turks
وقائعَ الدَّيلَمِ والتُّركِ
But barring the way to the bread in his house
Yet without bread in his house
are the battles of the Daylamites and the Turks.
The happenings of the poor and destitute
رغيفُهhis loaf اليابسُdry فيin جيبهِhis pocket
رغيفُه اليابسُ في جيبهِ
كأنّهas though it were نافِجةُa pod المِسكِof musk
كأنّه نافِجةُ المِسكِ
His dry loaf lies in his pocket,
His dry loaf in his pocket
as though it were a musk pod.
As though it were musk incense
يرىregards صيامَfasting الضيفِthe guest فيin بيتهِhis house
يرى صيامَ الضيفِ في بيتهِ
نُسكاdevotion ومَنand who يزهدturns away فيfrom النسكِdevotion
نُسكا ومَن يزهد في النسكِ
He regards his guest’s fasting in his house
He sees the fasting of a guest in his home
as devotion—and who would turn away from devotion?
As devotion, and who disdains devotion?
وصَونهand his guarding اللُّقمةَthe morsel ديِناًa religion لهfor him
وصَونه اللُّقمةَ ديِناً له
وبذلهand his giving شِركاpolytheism منof الشركِpolytheism
وبذله شِركا من الشركِ
And he counts guarding the morsel as his religion,
He safeguards the morsel as his religion
and giving it away as a form of polytheism.
And to share it is polytheism to him
يَوَدُّwishes منout of خِسَّتهِhis meanness أنّهthat he
يَوَدُّ من خِسَّتهِ أنّه
أمسىhad become بلاwithout ضرسٍa molar ولاnor فَكِّa jaw
أمسى بلا ضرسٍ ولا فَكِّ
He wishes, out of his meanness, that he
He wishes in his meagerness that he
had ended up without a molar or a jaw.
Would spend the night toothless and jawless
Sol 6.1