Sol 6

  1. لعلَّ الصَّبا إنْ صافحت روض نعمانِ

    تؤدي أمان القلب عن ظبية البانِ

    Perhaps the morning breeze, if it brushes the garden of Nu‘man,

    Will carry the heart’s trust from the gazelle among the ban trees.

  2. وماذا على الأرواح وهي طليقةٌ

    لو احتَّملت أنفاسها حاجة العاني

    What burden would it be for the winds, roaming free,

    To bear in their breaths the captive lover’s need?

  3. وما حالُ من يستودع الريح سرَّهُ

    ويطلبها وهي النموم بكتمانِ

    What becomes of one who entrusts his secret to the wind

    And asks it, though it spreads tales, to keep silent?

  4. وكالضيف أستقريه في سنة الكرى

    وهل تنقعُ الأحلام غلّةَ ظمآنِ

    Like a guest, I question it in the drowse of sleep;

    Can dreams quench a thirsty person’s burning thirst?

  5. أسائل عن نجد ومرمى صبابتي

    ملاعب غزلانِ الصريم بنَعمانِ

    I ask of Najd, the aim of my longing,

    The playgrounds of the gazelles of al-Sarim at Nu‘man.

  6. وأبدي إذا ريح الشمال تنفّستْ

    شمائل مرتاح المعاطف نشوانِ

    When the north wind begins to breathe, I show

    The manner of one swaying with delight, drunk with joy.

  7. عرفتُ بهذا الحب لم أَدْرِ سَلوَةٌ

    وأنّى لمسلوبِ الفؤاد بسلوانِ

    In this love I have known no forgetting;

    How could one robbed of his heart find solace?

  8. فيا صاحبَيْ نجوايَ والحب غاية

    فمن سابقٍ جلَّي مداه ومن وانِ

    O two companions of my confidences, love has a farthest reach:

    One racer has made its distance clear, while another lags.

  9. وراءكما ما اللوم يَثْني مقادتي

    فإنِّيَ عن شأن الملامة في شانِ

    Leave me be; blame cannot turn my reins aside,

    For I am occupied with something other than reproach.

  10. وإني وإن كنتُ الأبيَّ قيادُهُ

    لَيَأْمُرني حبُّ الحسان وينهاني

    Though my reins resist restraint,

    Love of beauties commands and forbids me.

  11. وما زلتُ أرعى العهدَ فيمن يضيعه

    وأذكر إلفي ما حييت وينساني

    I still honor the pledge with one who breaks it,

    And remember my beloved as long as I live, while my beloved forgets me.

  12. فلا تنكرا ما سامني مضض الهوى

    فمن قبل ما أودى بقيس وغيلانِ

    Do not deny the pain love has made me bear;

    Before this, it destroyed Qays and Ghaylan.

  13. ليَ الله إِمّا أَومضَ البرق في الدجى

    أقلب تحت الليل مقلة وسنانِ

    God help me whenever lightning flashes in the dark:

    Beneath the night I turn a drowsy eye.

  14. وإنْ سلَّ في غمد الغمام حُسامهُ

    بَرَى كهدي الشوقُ الملمُّ وأضناني

    When it draws its sword from the sheath of cloud,

    The sudden longing wears down my frame and wastes me.

  15. تراءى بأعلام الثنيّة باسماً

    فأذكرني العهدَ القديم وأبكاني

    It appeared smiling above the heights of the pass,

    Reminding me of the old pledge and making me weep.

  16. أسامر نجم الأفق حتى كأننا

    وقد سدل الليلُ الرواقَ حليفانِ

    I converse with a star on the horizon until we seem,

    With night drawing down its curtain, like two companions.

  17. مما أناجي الأفق أعْديه بالجوى

    فأرعى له سَرْحَ النجوم ويرعاني

    Through all my talk with the horizon, I pass my passion to it;

    I watch its flock of stars for it, and it watches over me.

  18. ويُرسلُ صوبَ القطر من فيض أدمعي

    ويقدحُ زند البرق من نار أشجاني

    It sends showers of rain from the flood of my tears,

    And strikes lightning’s fire from the flame of my grief.

  19. وضاعف وجدي رسمُ دارٍ عهدتها

    مطالعَ شُهبٍ أو مراتع غزلانِ

    My yearning grew at the trace of a home I had known

    As a place where bright stars rose, or gazelles grazed,

  20. على حين شربُ الوصل غير مصرّد

    وصفو الليالي لم يكدر بهجرانِ

    When the draught of union was never cut short

    And the clear nights had not been clouded by separation.

  21. لئن أنكرت عيني الطلولَ فإنها

    تمتُّ إلى قلبي بذكر وعرفانِ

    Though my eyes failed to recognize the ruins,

    They claim kinship with my heart through memory and recognition.

  22. ولم أرَ مثل الدمع في عَرَصاتها

    سقى تربها حين استهل وأَظماني

    I have seen nothing like tears among those dwelling places:

    They watered the soil when they poured forth, and left me thirsty.

  23. ومما شجاني أنْ سرى الركبُ مَوْهناً

    تُقاد به هوج الرياح بأرسانِ

    Another thing that grieved me was the caravan setting out at night,

    With the wild winds led by reins.

  24. غواربُ في بحر السراب تخالها

    وقد سبحت فيه مواخرَ غربانِ

    Like camel humps in a sea of mirage, you would think them

    Black ships swimming through it.

  25. على كل نضوٍ مثله فكأنما

    رمى منهما صدرَ المفَازة سهمانِ

    Each rider on a lean mount looked so like it

    That the two seemed arrows shot into the heart of the waste.

  26. ومن زاجرٍ كوماءَ مخطفة الحشا

    توسَّدَ منها فوق عوجاء مرنانِ

    And one driver urged a humpbacked camel with a tucked-in flank,

    Resting his head upon her, above a curved, resonant saddle.

  27. نشاوى غَرامٍ يستميل رؤُوسهم

    من النّوم والشوق المبرِّح سُكرانِ

    Dazed with love, their heads sway,

    Drunk with sleep and consuming longing.

  28. أجابوا نداء البين طوعَ غرامهم

    وقد تبلغ الأوطار فرقة أوطانِ

    They answered separation’s call, yielding to their passion;

    Parting from home can sometimes fulfill desire.

  29. يؤمون من قبر الشفيع مثابةً

    تطلَّعُ منها جنّةٌ ذاتُ أفنانِ

    They seek a place of return at the Intercessor’s grave,

    From which a many-branched garden comes into view.

  30. إذا نزلوا من طيبةٍ بجواره

    فأكرمُ مولى ضم أكرمَ ضيفانِ

    When they alight beside him in Tayba,

    How noble a host has welcomed such noble guests!

  31. بحيث علا الإيمان وامتد ظلُّه

    وزان حلى التوحيد تعطيل أوثانِ

    There faith rose high and spread its shade,

    And the casting down of idols adorned the ornaments of divine oneness.

  32. مطالع آياتٍ مثابة رحمةٍ

    معاهد أملاك مظاهر إيمانِ

    A place where signs dawn, a refuge of mercy,

    A dwelling of angels, a place where faith appears.

  33. هنالك تصفو للقبول مواردٌ

    يُسَقَّوْن منها فضل عفو وغفرانِ

    There, springs of welcome run clear;

    From them they are given the bounty of pardon and forgiveness.

  34. هناك تُؤدَّى للسلام أمانةٌ

    يُحيِّيهُمُ عنها بِرَوْحٍ ورَيْحانِ

    There, a greeting of peace is entrusted for delivery;

    He greets them in return with comfort and fragrant abundance.

  35. يناجون عن قرب شفيعَهُمُ الّذي

    يؤمِّلُه القاصي من الخَلْقِ والداني

    They speak closely to their Intercessor,

    In whom people far and near place their hope.

  36. لئن بلغوا دوني وخُلَّفْتُ إنه

    قضاءٌ جرى من مالك الأرض ديَّانِ

    Though they reached him without me, and I was left behind,

    It was a decree of the Judge who owns the earth.

  37. وكم عزمة ملّيت نفسيَ صدقها

    وقد عرفت مني مواعد ليّانِ

    How many firm resolves I promised my soul I would fulfill,

    Though it has known me to offer excuses and delays.

  38. إلى الله نشكوها نفوساً أبيةً

    تحيدُ عن الباقي وتغترُّ بالفاني

    To God I complain of these proud souls:

    They turn from what endures and are beguiled by what passes.

  39. ألا ليت شعري هل تساعدني المنى

    فأتركَ أهلي في رضاه وجيرانِي

    Would that I knew whether my hopes might help me

    Leave my family and neighbors to seek his pleasure,

  40. وأقضي لبانات الفؤاد بأن أُرى

    أُعفِّرُ خدّي في ثراه وأجفاني

    And satisfy my heart’s desires by being seen

    Rubbing my cheek and eyelids in his soil.

  41. إليكَ رسولَ الله دعوةَ نازح

    خفوق الحشا رهن المطالع هيمانِ

    To you, Messenger of God, comes the plea of one far away,

    His heart trembling, his eyes fixed on the horizon, distraught.

  42. غريب بأقصى الغرب قيّد خطوه

    شباب تقضى في مَراح وخسرانِ

    A stranger in the farthest west, whose steps are fettered

    By youth spent in carefree pleasure and loss.

  43. يجدُّ اشتياقاً للعقيق وبانِهِ

    ويصبو غليها ما استجدَّ الجديدان

    His longing for al-‘Aqiq and its ban trees grows keen,

    And he yearns for it as long as days and nights renew.

  44. وإن ومض البرق الحجازيُّ مَوْهنا

    يُردِّدُ في الظلماء أنَّة لهفانِ

    When lightning from the Hijaz flashes late at night,

    He repeats a yearning sigh in the darkness.

  45. فيا موليَ الرُّحمى ويا مُذهب العمى

    ويا مُنْجيَ الغرقى ويا منقذ العاني

    O giver of mercy, dispeller of blindness,

    Rescuer of the drowning and deliverer of the captive,

  46. بسطتُ يدَ المحتاج يا خير راحمٍ

    وذنبيَ ألجاني إلى موقف الجاني

    I stretch out a needy hand, O most merciful one;

    My sin has driven me to stand as a culprit.

  47. وسيلتيَ العظمى شفاعتك التي

    يلوذ بها عيسى وموسى بن عمرانِ

    My greatest means of appeal is your intercession,

    To which Jesus and Moses son of ‘Imran seek refuge.

  48. فأنتَ حبيبُ الله خاتمُ رُسْلِهِ

    وأكرمُ مخصوص بزلفى ورضوانِ

    You are God’s beloved, the last of His messengers,

    The one most honored with nearness and favor.

  49. وحسبُك أن سمَّاك أسماءه العلى

    وذاك كمال لا يشابُ بنقصانِ

    It is enough that He has called you by His exalted names:

    That is a perfection untouched by defect.

  50. وأنت لهذا الكون علَّةُ كونه

    ولولاك ما امتاز الوجود بأكوانِ

    You are the cause of this universe’s being;

    Without you, existence would not have taken its many forms.

  51. ولولاك للأفلاك لم تَجلُ نَيّراً

    ولا قُلِّدتْ لَبَّاتُهُنَّ بشُهبانِ

    Without you, the heavens would not have displayed a luminary,

    Nor would their necks have been adorned with shooting stars.

  52. خلاصة صفو المجد من آل هاشمٍ

    ونكتة سر الفخر من آل عدنانِ

    The pure essence of glory from the house of Hashim,

    The secret heart of pride from the house of ‘Adnan,

  53. وسيد هذا الخلق من نسل آدم

    وأكرم مبعوث إلى الإنس والجانِ

    Lord of all creation descended from Adam,

    And the noblest envoy to humans and jinn.

  54. وكم آيةٍ أطلعت في أفق الهوى

    يَبينُ صباحُ الرشد منها ليقظانِ

    How many signs you have raised on the horizon of longing;

    Through them, the dawn of guidance is plain to the wakeful.

  55. وما الشمس يجلوها النهار لمبصرٍ

    بأجلى ظهوراً أو بأوضح برهانِ

    The sun revealed by day to one who sees

    Is no clearer in its appearance or its proof.

  56. وأكرمْ بآيات تحدَّيتَنا بها

    ولا مثلُ آياتٍ لمُحْكَمٍ فُرقانِ

    How noble the signs with which you challenged us;

    No signs compare with those of the firmly ordered Furqan.

  57. وماذا عسى يُثني البليغ وقد أتى

    ثناؤك في وحي كريم وقرآنِ

    How can the eloquent hope to praise you when

    Your praise has come in noble revelation and the Qur’an?

  58. فصلّى عليك الله ما انسكب الحيا

    وما سجعت ورقاءُ في غُصُن البانِ

    May God bless you as long as rain pours down

    And a dove coos among the branches of the ban tree.

  59. وأيدّ مولانا ابنَ نصر فإنه

    لأَشرفُ من يُنمَى لمُلكٍ وسلطانِ

    And may He support our lord Ibn Nasr, for he

    Is the noblest man to whom kingship and rule are ascribed.

  60. أقام كما يرضيك مولدك الذي

    به سَفَرَ الإسلام عن وجه جَذْلانِ

    He celebrated your birth as would please you,

    The birth through which Islam showed a joyful face.

  61. سميُّ رسول الله ناصرُ دينه

    معظِّمُهُ في حال سرٍّ وإعلانِ

    Namesake of the Messenger of God, defender of his faith,

    He honors him in private and in public.

  62. ووارث سر المجد من آل خزرجٍ

    وأكرم من تَنْمي قبائل قحطانِ

    He inherits glory’s secret from the house of Khazraj,

    And is the noblest man claimed by the tribes of Qahtan.

  63. ومرسلها ملء الفضاء كتائباً

    تدين لها غُلبُ الملوك بإذعَانِ

    He sends his battalions across the breadth of the sky;

    Even mighty kings submit to them.

  64. حدائق خضرٌ والدروع غدائرٌ

    وما أَنْبَتتْ إِلاّ ذوابل مُرّانِ

    They are green gardens, their armor like flowing locks,

    Bearing nothing but slender spears of murran wood.

  65. تجَاوبُ فيها الصاهلاتُ وترتمي

    جوانبها بالأسد من فوق عقبانِ

    Horses answer one another within them, while at their flanks

    Lionhearted men charge from above eaglelike mounts.

  66. فمن كل خوَّار العنان قد ارتمى

    به كلّ مِطْعام العشيّات مِطْعانِ

    On every horse that tugs at its rein rides

    A generous giver of suppers, a thrusting warrior.

  67. وموردُها ظمأى الكعوب ذوابلاً

    ومصدرُها من كل أمْلدَ رَيّانِ

    The spears enter with their shafts thirsty

    And return from every supple foe well watered.

  68. ولله منها والربوع مواحلٌ

    غمامُ ندى كَفَّتْ بها المحلَ كيفّانِ

    By God, in lands laid waste by drought,

    The cloud of his generosity has held famine back.

  69. إذا أخلف الناسَ الغمامُ وأمحلوا

    فإن نداه والغمامَ لَسِيَّانِ

    When rain clouds fail the people and drought comes,

    His generosity and the rain clouds are alike.

  70. إمامٌ أعاد الملك بعد ذهابه

    إعادة لا نابي الحسام ولا وانِ

    A leader who restored rule after its loss

    With a sword neither blunt nor slow.

  71. فغادر أطلال الضلال دوارساً

    وجدّد بالإسلام أرفع بنيانِ

    He left the ruins of error crumbling

    And raised again the loftiest building through Islam.

  72. وشيّدها والمجد يشهدُ دولةً

    محافلُها تُزهى بيُمنٍ وإيمانِ

    He built up a realm, with glory as its witness,

    Whose gatherings shine with good fortune and faith.

  73. وراق من الثغر الغريب ابتسامُه

    وهزّ له الإسلام أعطاف مزدانِ

    Its radiant smile delighted the distant frontier,

    And Islam swayed for it like one arrayed in finery.

  74. لك الخير ما أسنى شمائلَكَ حاتم

    وإقدام عمرٍو في بلاغة سحبانِ

    May good be yours: how splendid your traits, like Hatim’s,

    With ‘Amr’s daring and Sahban’s eloquence.

  75. فلا زلْتَ يا غوث البلاد وأهلها

    مُبلَّغَ أوطارِ مُمهِّدَ أوطانِ

    May you endure, O aid of the land and its people,

    Attaining your aims and bringing peace to homelands.