Sol 6.1

  1. خانت جُفُونيَ لما لم تَفِضْ بدَمِي

    لكن وَفَى الجِسْم لما فَاضَ بالسَّقَمِ

    My eyelids betrayed me when they did not overflow with my blood,

    but my body kept faith when it overflowed with sickness.

  2. وما بكى الطَّرْفُ منِّي وحْدَه أَلماً

    لكِنْ بكاكَ جَمِيعُ الجِسم بالأَلَمِ

    It was not my eye alone that wept in pain,

    but my entire body wept for you in pain.

  3. سَقَمِي وموتُكَ يا همَّين في قَرَنِ

    بل قُلْ إِذا شئْتَ يا سهمين في أَمَم

    My sickness and your death—O two sorrows on one tether!

    Rather say, if you wish: O two arrows at close range!

  4. نعاكَ ناعِيكَ تَلْويحاً مُخَافَتَةً

    وقد نَعانيَ تَصْرِيحاً إِلى الأُمَم

    Your death's herald announced it in whispered hints,

    yet he proclaimed my death openly to the nations.

  5. خَرَجْتُ خَلْفكَ مَحْمُولاً كما خَرَجُوا

    بجِسمِك الطُّهْرِ محمولاً على القِمَم

    I went out behind you, carried, just as they went out

    with your pure body borne upon their heads.

  6. يا حسرتي إِذ رآني راكباً لهُمُ

    وما مَشَيْتُ على رَأْسِي وَلاَ قدَمِي

    Alas for me, when he saw me riding with them,

    and I walked neither on my head nor on my feet!

  7. قد حُزْتُ حُزْنَك مِيراثاً فكُنتُ بِهِ

    أَوْلى وأَحْرَى مِن الأَولادِ كُلِّهِم

    I claimed grief for you as my inheritance; to it I was

    more entitled and more deserving than all the children.

  8. تركتَني لشقاءٍ لسْتُ أَعْرِفُهُ

    وأَنْتَ من جنَّةِ الفردوسِ في نِعَمِ

    You left me to a misery I had never known,

    while you enjoy the blessings of the garden of Firdaws.

  9. يا ساكناً بينَ جنَّاتٍ مُزَخْرَفَةٍ

    بالنُّورِ إِنِّي من الأَحزانِ في الظُّلَمِ

    O dweller among gardens adorned

    with light, I am in darkness from sorrow.

  10. كم قلتُ يا لَيْتَ قومِي يَعلمُون بِمَا

    هُمْ يَعْلَمُونَ فَلاَ تَعْلمْ بمَا بِهم

    How often I said, 'Would that my people knew what

    they know!' But may you never know what afflicts them.

  11. لمْ تنس في جنَّةِ الفِرْدوسِ ذكْرَهمُ

    وأَنت ما زلتَ لا تَنْسَى ذَوي الرَّحمِ

    In the garden of Firdaws you have not forgotten them,

    and you have never ceased to remember your kin.

  12. وقد حَفِظْت عليهم عادةً لَهُمُ

    حاشَا لِمِثْلكَ يَنْسَى عَادَة الكَرَمِ

    You have kept for them the treatment they were used to;

    far be it from one like you to forget the habit of generosity.

  13. لَقيتَ ربَّكَ مَشْغُولاً برُؤْيَتِه

    فما التفتَّ إِلى حُورٍ ولا خَدَمِ

    You met your Lord, absorbed in beholding Him,

    and turned toward neither houris nor servants.

  14. خمساً وتِسْعِينَ تَسْعَى في عِبَادَتِه

    لم تَشْكُ مِنْ مَللٍ فِيها ولاَ سَأَمِ

    For ninety-five years you strove in His worship,

    never complaining of boredom or weariness in it.

  15. قد انحنى الظَّهرُ وانهدَّتْ قَوَائِمُه

    من الرُّكُوع إِليه لا مِنَ الهَرَمِ

    Your back had bent, and its pillars had collapsed,

    from bowing before Him, not from old age.

  16. سهرت مُنْتَصِباً لله مُحْتَسِباً

    ومَنْ يُرِد جنَّةَ الفردوسِ لَمْ يَنَمِ

    You kept vigil, upright before God, seeking His reward,

    and whoever seeks the garden of Firdaws does not sleep.

  17. تَرَفَّعَتْ هِمَّةٌ باتت بخالقها

    وفي العبادةِ بانَتْ رِفْعَةُ الهِمَمِ

    High rose an aspiration that passed the night with its Creator,

    and in worship the loftiness of aspirations was revealed.

  18. عِبَادَةٌ ملَّكَتْكَ الخُلْدَ فَهي وَمَا

    مُلِّكْتَهُ مِنْهُ مَوْصُوفَانِ بالعِظَمِ

    Worship made eternal life yours; both it and what

    you were granted of it are marked by greatness.

  19. وجنَّةُ الخُلْدِ بالأَعْمَالِ تَدْخُلُها

    لا بالحُظوظِ كما قَالُوا ولا القِسَمِ

    You enter the garden of eternity through deeds,

    not by luck, as they said, nor by allotted shares.

  20. من يَعْلمِ الله فيه الخَيْرَ أَسْمَعَهُ

    بُشْرَى السَّعادةِ قَبْلَ الخَلْقِ في القِدمِ

    Whomever God knows to have goodness within, He lets hear

    glad tidings of bliss before creation, in eternity past.

  21. ومن صَفَتْ مِنْه عَيْنٌ في الفؤادِ رأَى

    ما خطَّهُ اللهُ فَوْقَ اللَّوحِ بالقَلَم

    And whoever has a clear eye within his heart sees

    what God inscribed upon the Tablet with the Pen.

  22. يا راحلاً وجميلُ الذِّكر يَخْلُفُه

    بَقَاءُ ذِكرِك مَسلاَةٌ عَنِ العَدَمِ

    O departed one, whom fair remembrance follows,

    your enduring memory is solace for your absence.

  23. إِن افتُقِدْتَ فذِكْرٌ غَيْرُ مُفْتَقَدٍ

    أَوِ انهدَمْتَ فشكر غيرُ مُنْهَدم

    Though you are missed, your memory is not missing;

    or though you have crumbled, gratitude remains intact.

  24. خلَّفْتَ أُحدوثةً حَسْنَاءَ طَيِّبةً

    وتِلْك إِرْثٌ ولكنْ غَيرُ مُقْتَسَمِ

    You left behind a beautiful and pleasing tale,

    and that is an inheritance, but not one to be divided.

  25. بلى لقَدْ ورَّثتْنا المجدَ أَجْمعَهُ

    صنائعٌ لك عند العُرْبِ والعَجَمِ

    Yes, all glory has indeed been bequeathed to us

    by your benefactions among Arabs and non-Arabs.

  26. والخَلقُ تَثْنِي بما أَوْليْتَ م حَسنٍ

    والخَلْقُ تشكرُ ما خوَّلتَ مِنْ نِعَمِ

    And people praise the goodness you bestowed,

    and people give thanks for the blessings you granted.

  27. ما زال برُّك فيهم ملءَ كُلِّ يَدٍ

    فصار شكرُك فيهمْ مِلءَ كُلِّ فَم

    Your kindness among them always filled every hand,

    so gratitude to you came to fill every mouth among them.

  28. تَسْعى إِليهم ببرٍّ كنت تَكْتُمُه

    وكيْفَ تُكْتَمُ نيرانٌ عَلَى عَلَم

    You hastened to them with kindness you kept concealed,

    and how can fires upon a mountain be concealed?

  29. والفَضْلُ بَعْدَك شَمْلٌ غَيْرُ مُجْتَمع

    والبرُّ بعدك عِقْدٌ غَيْرُ مُنْتَظِم

    Excellence after you is a company no longer united,

    and kindness after you, a necklace no longer strung.

  30. لم تَلْتَفِتْ قَطُّ للدُّنْيَا لتُحْرِزَها

    لكن لتُحْرِزَ فيها مَغْنَمَ الكَرَمِ

    You never turned to the world to possess it,

    but to win within it the spoils of generosity.

  31. كم قام غيرُك للدنيا وقد قَعَدَت

    عَنْهُ وقَامَتْ لك الدنيا فَلَمْ تَقُمِ

    How often another rose for the world, while it sat back

    from him; yet the world rose for you, and you did not rise,

  32. زهداً دَعَتْكَ إِليه حِكمةٌ شَهدتِ

    بأَن طبعَكَ مفطورٌ على الحِكَمِ

    out of renunciation, to which wisdom called you, testifying

    that your nature was fashioned upon wise principles.

  33. سقى تُرَابك رِضْوَانٌ ومَغْفِرَةٌ

    إِذا سقَى التربَ هطَّالٌ من الدِّيم

    May divine approval and forgiveness water your dust,

    when a downpour of steady rain waters the soil.

  34. فأَنت في القبر حيٌّ مُدْرِكٌ فَرحٌ

    ما كلُ من ماتَ معدوداً من الرِّمَمِ

    For in the grave you are alive, aware, and joyful;

    not everyone who dies is counted among decayed remains.

  35. جلَّيت ظلمةَ قبرٍ أَنْتَ ساكنُه

    والبدْرُ مَا زالَ يُجْلي ظُلْمَةَ العَتَمِ

    You dispelled the darkness of the grave you inhabit,

    and the full moon has always dispelled the darkness of night.

  36. لَبَّى أَنينيَ لما زُرْتُ تُرْبَتَه

    كأَنَّني دَاخِلٌ مِنْها إِلى حَرَم

    He answered my moan when I visited his grave,

    as though through it I were entering a sanctuary.

  37. مَنْ لَمْ يُقَدِّم كما قدَّمْتَ من عَملٍ

    فسوف يأْكل كَفَّيه من النَّدمِ

    Whoever has not sent deeds ahead as you have

    will gnaw both his hands in regret.

  38. وسوفَ يَدْرِي إِذا ما الموُت أَيْقَظهُ

    بأَنَّه كَانَ مِنْ دُنْيَاه في حُلُم

    And he will know, when death awakens him,

    that in his worldly life he had been in a dream.

  39. لا تحسَبُوا كلَّ مَيْتٍ مِثْل ميِّتنا

    هيهاتَ هيهاتَ فالموتَى ذَوُو قِيَم

    Do not suppose every dead person is like our departed one.

    Far, far from it! The dead differ in worth.