Sol 6.1

  1. يا وفودَ الله فُزتُم بالمُنى

    فهنيئاً لكم أهلَ مِنى

    O pilgrims of God, you have attained your wishes;

    so congratulations to you, people of Mina!

  2. قد عَرَفَنا عرفاتٍ مَعَكم

    فلهذا برّحَ الشوقُ بِنا

    We have indeed known Arafat in your company;

    and so longing has sorely tormented us.

  3. نحنُ بالمغرب نُجري ذِكركم

    فغُروب الدَّمع تَجري هَتَنا

    In the Maghrib we keep your remembrance flowing;

    so streams of tears flow in torrents.

  4. أنتمُ الاحبابُ نشكو بعدكم

    هل شَكوتم بُعدنا من بَعدنا

    You are the beloved; we lament your absence.

    Have you lamented our absence since we parted?

  5. علّنا نَلقَى خَيالاً مِنكم

    بلذيذ الذّكر وَهناً عَلّنا

    Perhaps we may encounter a vision of you

    through sweet remembrance late at night—perhaps we may.

  6. لوحَنا الدّهر علينا لقَضى

    باجتماعٍ بكمُ في المنُحَنى

    If time showed us compassion, it would decree

    a reunion with you at al-Munhana, the bend.

  7. لاحَ برقٌ موَهِناً من ارضكم

    فلَعَمري ما هَنا العَيشُ هنا

    Lightning flashed from your land late at night;

    and, by my life, life here is not sweet.

  8. صَدعَ اللّيلُ وميضاً وَسَناً

    فأَبَينا ان نَذُوقَ الوَسَنَا

    It cleft the night with flashes and radiance,

    so we refused to taste slumber.

  9. كم جَنى الشوق عَلينا من أسى

    عاد في مَرضاتِكم حُلو الجَنى

    How much sorrow longing has inflicted upon us,

    which, in pleasing you, became a sweet harvest!

  10. ولكم بالخيف من قَلب شجٍ

    لم يزل خوفَ النوى يَشكو الضنى

    And how many a grieving heart at al-Khayf

    has never ceased lamenting its wasting pain for fear of parting!

  11. ما ارتضى جانحةَ الصدرِ له

    سَكناً منذ به قد سكنا

    It has never been content with the breast’s ribs

    as its home, ever since it settled there.

  12. فيناديهِ على شَحطِ النّوى

    من لنا يَوما بقلبٍ ملّنا

    So the breast calls to it across the vast distance of parting:

    “Who will bring us, one day, a heart that has tired of us?”

  13. سِربِنا يا حَادي العيس عَسَى

    أن نلاقي يومَ جمع سِربنا

    Take us onward, O driver of white camels; perhaps

    we may meet our flock on the day of Jam‘.

  14. ما عَنى داعي النّوى لما دعى

    غيرَ صَب شَفة بَرح العَنا

    When separation’s herald called, he meant

    none but a lovesick man wasted by grievous suffering.

  15. شِم لنا البَرقَ اذا لاح وقل

    جَمَعَ الله بجمعٍ شَملنَا

    Watch the lightning for us when it flashes, and say:

    “May God reunite our company at Jam‘.”