Sol 6.1

  1. أَلا أَيُّها الرَبعُ الَّذي عَطَّلَ الدَهرُ

    عَفاكَ بُكائي فيكَ لَم يَعفُكَ القَطرُ

    Ah, dwelling-place that time has left desolate,

    my weeping over you effaced you, not the rain.

  2. خَليلَيَّ إِن لَم تُسعِداني عَلى البُكا

    فَلا تُكثِرا لَومي فَكَم يَصبِرُ الصَبرُ

    My two friends, if you will not join me in weeping,

    do not reproach me so much—how long can patience endure?

  3. سَقى اللَهُ شَمساً بِالمُخَرَّمِ دارُها

    يَهونُ عَلَيها مِنِّيَ العَتبُ وَالهَجرُ

    May God water a sun whose home is in al-Mukharram;

    my reproach and estrangement mean little to her.

  4. جَلَتها عَلَينا الريحُ بَينَ كَواعِبٍ

    وَقَد كَتَمَتهُنَّ المَقانِعُ وَالأُزرُ

    The wind unveiled her before us among full-breasted maidens,

    though head-veils and waist-wraps had concealed them,

  5. فَأَبدَت لَنا كَشحاً هَضيماً عَلى نَقاً

    وَرُمّانَ صَدرٍ ما لِيانِعِهِ هَصرُ

    and so revealed to us a slender waist above a sand dune,

    and a bosom's pomegranates, whose ripe fruit is unplucked.

  6. أَبى اللَهُ إِلّا كُلَّ ما سَرَّ أَحمَداً

    وَلِلحاسِدينَ الرُغمُ وَالجَدعُ وَالعَثرُ

    God wills nothing but what gladdens Ahmad;

    and for the envious, humiliation, severed noses, and stumbling.

  7. بِهِ قَرَّتِ الدُنيا وَفاضَ خَراجُها

    عَلى المَلكِ فَاِستَغنى وَأَمكَنَهُ القَهرُ

    Through him the world found peace, and its tax revenues overflowed

    upon the king, so he grew rich and gained the power to subdue.

  8. وَلَولاهُ دَرَّت بِالسُيوفِ وَبِالقَنا

    لِقاحٌ مَعَ الهَيجاءِ أَطيارُها حُمرُ

    But for him, milk would have been drawn with swords and spears

    from milch-camels amid battle, with its birds red.