كيف أصغي للعاذلين — Ibn Sahl Al Andalusi

كَيفَ أُصغي لِلعاذِلَين

مَعَ صَبري لِلعاذِلَين

How can I heed the two reprovers,

for all my patience with the two reprovers?

إِنَّ خَصمي لَدى الشَجى

في هَواهُ قَلبٌ وَعَين

Indeed, amid sorrow my adversary

in loving him is a heart and an eye.

أَنا في الحُبِّ صادِقٌ

أَنا صَبٌّ بِشاهِدَين

I am truthful in love;

I am lovesick, with two witnesses.

فَإِذا رُمتُ سَلوَةً

حيلَ ما بَينَنا بِذَين

So whenever I seek solace,

a barrier is set between us by those two.

وَأَنا كاِبنِ هانِىءٍ

في الصِبا حِلفُ سَكرَتَين

And I, like Ibn Hani',

in youthful passion, am allied to two intoxications.

قامَ عُذري بِحُسنِ مَن

هِمتُ فيهِ مِن غَيرِ مَين

My excuse is established by the beauty of the one

whom I love madly, without falsehood:

بَدرِ تِمٍّ مُرَكَّب

في قَضيبٍ مِنَ اللُجَين

a full moon, mounted

on a slender bough of silver.

وَجهُهُ الرَوضُ وَالحَيا

مِنهُ مَعسولُ ريقَتَين

His face is a garden, and the rain

from it is two honey-sweet drops of saliva.

حُسنُ رَيحانَتَيهِ قَد

زادَ ضِعفاً بِالجَنَتَين

The beauty of his two basil sprigs has

doubled in the two gardens.

لَو حَباني مِن ريقِهِ

كانَ تِرياقَ عَقرَبَين

If he gave me some of his saliva,

it would be an antidote to two scorpions.

زَيَّنَ اللَهُ خَدَّهُ

لِعَذابي بِشامَتَين

God adorned his cheek,

for my torment, with two beauty spots.

ذاكَ كَيما يَفوزَ مِن

شيمَةِ الحُسنِ بِاِثنَتَين

That was so he might gain from

beauty's nature a double share.

كانَ فَرداً لِأَجلِ ذا

مَلَكَ الحُسنُ مَرَّتَين

He was singular for this reason:

beauty held sway twice.

فَلِكُلٍّ عَلامَةٌ

وَهوَ يَحوي عَلامَتَين

So each has a mark,

and he possesses two marks.

كَيفَ أَخشى اِشتِراكَهُ

وَهوَ قَد حازَ رَقَّتَين

How can I fear his being shared,

when he has gained two forms of delicacy?

لا يَرى الشَيءَ مُشكِلاً

وَهوَ يَقرا لِبَينَتَين

He finds nothing obscure,

and reads with two clear proofs.

وَدَليلي عَلى الَّذي

قُلتُهُ ذو الوَزارَتَين

And my proof of what

I said is the Holder of the Two Ministries:

لَفظَةٌ لا تَرى لَها

في الأَنامِ مُسَمَّيَين

an expression for which you cannot find

two bearers among mankind.

فَهوَ يَختَصُّ واحِداً

لَيسَ إِلّا بِالعَدوَتَين

For it singles out one man,

and no other, on the two shores:

سَيِّداً مِن قُضاعَةَ

خَيرَ سامٍ مِن سَيِّدَين

a lord of Quda'a,

the finest exalted scion of two lords.

أَخَذَ الجودَ وَالعُلا

شَخصُهُ بِالوِراثَتَين

Generosity and eminence were acquired

by his person through two inheritances,

مِن أَبيهِ وَجَدِّهِ

فَهوَ حُسنٌ ذو حُسنَيَين

from his father and his grandfather;

so he is beauty endowed with two beauties,

مِثلُ بَسارينَ في

أَساليفِ النَيرَين

like Basarin among

the forebears of the two luminaries.

لَو بَغى المَجدَ فَوقَهُ

أَصبَحا فيهِ فَرقَدَين

If glory sought to rise above him,

they would become, compared with him, two Farqad stars.

إِنَّني مُقسِمٌ بِهِ

وَالمُصَلّى وَالمَأزَمَين

Indeed, I swear by him,

and by the prayer-ground and the two mountain passes:

لا يُوازيهِ في العُلا

وَبِهِ القَضِيَّتَين

no one equals him in eminence—

and by him I swear to both claims.

موَئِلي يا أَبا عَلِيٍّ

يا رَجائي مِن كُلِّ أَين

My refuge, O Abu Ali,

O my hope against every weariness!

قَد كَفاني ما حَلَّ بي

مِن خُمولٍ وَفرِطِ بَين

I have had enough of what befell me,

of obscurity and excessive separation,

وَاِطِّراحي لِكُلِّ دَينٍ

وَأَخذي لِكُلِّ دَين

and of being cast aside for every debt,

and being seized for every debt.

لا تَدَعني بَعدَ الجَفا

أَتَمَنّى خُفَّي حُنَين

Do not leave me, after such estrangement,

wishing for Hunayn's two boots.

أَنتَ تَدري سَريرَتي

دونَ شَكٍّ بِاِسمٍ وَعَين

You know my innermost self,

without doubt, by name and identity.

وَشَهيدي في كُلِّ ما

أَدَّعيهِ فَتى رُعَين

And my witness to all that

I claim is the youth of Ru'ayn.