Sol 6.1

  1. أَحبابنا هَل لِذاك العَهد تذكارُ

    يُدني إَلَيكُم إِذا لَم تُدنِنا الدارُ

    Our loved ones, is there a remembrance of those days

    That draws us near you when our homes cannot?

  2. بنتُم فَلَم يغنِنا مِن أُنسِكُم سَكَنٌ

    يَوماً وَلا راقَنا مِن بَعدَكُم جارُ

    You departed; no companion could replace your fellowship

    For even a day, nor did any neighbor please us after you.

  3. تَجري المُنى سانِحاتٍ في خَواطِرنا

    وَما لَها غَيرَ جَمعِ الشَملِ أَوطارُ

    Wishes flow through our thoughts as they arise,

    And have no aim but bringing us together.

  4. قَد قَطّع البُعد نَجوانا وَما بَرِحَت

    في القَلب مِنكُم أَحاديثٌ وَأَسرارُ

    Distance has severed our intimate converse, yet there remain

    Within the heart, words and secrets from you.

  5. نَبيتُ في الرَّبعِ نَستَسقي الغَمامَ لَكُم

    وَقَد سَقَت ربعكم لِلدَمعِ أَمطارُ

    We spend the night at the dwelling, asking the clouds for rain for you,

    Though downpours of tears have already watered your dwelling.

  6. حَقٌّ عَلَينا وَإِن غِبتُم زَيارتَهُ

    فَهَل نَراكُم وَأَنتُم فيهِ زُوَّارُ

    It is our duty, though you are absent, to visit it;

    So shall we see you there as visitors too?

  7. أَما الكَرى فَسَلوا عَنهُ الخَيالَ إِذا

    وارتهُ مِن ظُلماتِ اللَيلِ أَستارُ

    As for sleep, ask the apparition about it, when

    Veils of the night's darkness conceal it.

  8. يَطوفُ مِن حَولِنا حَتى يَعود وَقَد

    أَصابَهُ مِن رشاشِ الدَمعِ آثارُ

    It circles round us until it returns, by then

    Marked with traces of the spray of tears.

  9. وَبي لَياليَ أُنسٍ بَيننا سَلفت

    كَأَنَّها في رَبيعِ العَيشِ أَزهارُ

    And within me linger nights of fellowship we once shared,

    Like flowers in the springtime of life.

  10. كَأَنَّنا لَم نَذُقْ وَصلاً وَلا عبرتْ

    لَنا عَلى الصَّفْوِ آصالٌ وَأَسحارُ

    As though we had never tasted union, nor had passed

    For us, in serenity, evenings and predawn hours.

  11. أَيام نَعشو إِلى ضَوءِ الشّمولِ وَقَد

    بَدا لَها تَحتَ جَنحِ اللَيلِ إِسفارُ

    Days when we sought the light of wine, when

    Its radiance appeared beneath the wing of night.

  12. صَهباءُ تَكسو النَدامَى مِن أَشعَّتِها

    كَوجهِ مُوسى وَقَد ضاءَت لَهُ النارُ

    Amber wine that clothes its drinking companions in its rays,

    Like Musa's face when the fire shone before him.

  13. مُبارَكُ الوَجهِ صافي السر قَد هَبَطَت

    عَلَيهِ مِن أُفق الرُضوانِ أَنوارُ

    Blessed of face and pure of heart—there have descended

    Upon him lights from the horizon of divine favor.

  14. في طاعَةِ اللَهِ مَمساهُ وَمصبحُهُ

    وَمِنهُ لِلخَيرِ إِعلانٌ وَإِسرارُ

    His evening and morning are spent in obedience to God,

    And he does good both openly and in secret.

  15. لِلّهِ غُصنٌ نَشا مِن روحِ مَكرُمَةٍ

    طابَت لَنا مِنهُ أَغصانٌ وَأَثمارُ

    To God belongs a bough grown from the spirit of generosity,

    Whose branches and fruit have delighted us.

  16. عِرقٌ كَريمٌ وَأحسابٌ مُؤثَّلةٌ

    بِمثلِها أُحرِزَت لِلمَجدِ أَخطارُ

    A noble root, and firmly founded ancestral honors,

    Through whose like the high ranks of glory are won.

  17. أَنشا لآلِ فُريجٍ عزةً بَسَقَت

    مَن دونِها خَسأت لِلدَهرِ أَنظارُ

    He established for the house of Furayj a dignity that soared

    Before which the eyes of time recoiled abashed.

  18. بَنى لَهُم طَودُ مَجدٍ طالَ وَاِرتَفَعَتْ

    عَلَيهِ مِن حيطةِ الرَحمانِ أَسوارُ

    He built them a towering mountain of glory, and there rose

    Upon it walls of the All-Merciful's protection.

  19. وَفَوقَهُ نورُ بَدرٍ حينَ لاحَ بِهِ

    غارَت لِمَطلَعِهِ في الأُفقِ أَقمارُ

    Above it shone a full moon's light; when it appeared there,

    Moons sank on the horizon at its rising.

  20. هَذا الهُمامُ الَّذي أَضحَت مَناقِبُهُ

    قُدىً بِها في طِلابِ الحَمدِ يُستارُ

    This is the noble lord whose virtues have become

    Models to follow in the pursuit of praise.

  21. في جاهِهِ لِطَريدِ الدَهرِ مُلتَجأٌ

    وَفي غِناه لِأَهلِ العُسرِ إيسارُ

    In his influence is refuge for the outcast of fate,

    And in his wealth is relief for those in hardship.

  22. وَهمُّهُ كلّ يَومٍ كَسبَ مَأثرةٍ

    تَخُطُّها في سجِلِّ الفَخرِ أَدهارُ

    His daily concern is to earn a noble deed

    That ages inscribe in the register of pride.

  23. مُتَيَّمٌ بِغَواني المَجدِ يَعشَقُها

    فَهنَّ مِن حَولِهِ عونٌ وَأَبكارُ

    Enthralled by the beauties of glory, he loves them;

    Around him they stand, matrons and maidens.

  24. يَضُمُ لِلتّالدِ المَوروثِ طارِفُها

    ذَخائِراً مَثلَها يَبغي وَيَختار

    He adds their newly won glories to those inherited of old—

    Treasures whose like he seeks and chooses.

  25. فِدىً لِموسى رِجال قَد عَرَفتَهُمُ

    كَأَنَّهُم في عُيونِ العَصرِ عُوَّارُ

    May men you have known be a ransom for Musa—

    As though they were irritants in the eyes of the age:

  26. مِن كُلِّ راضٍ مِن الدُنيا بِدرهمِهِ

    وَلَيسَ في نَفسهِ لِلمَجدِ إيثارُ

    Every man content with his dirham as his share of the world,

    With no preference for glory within his soul;

  27. وَمَن إِذا حَصَلَتْ في كَفِّهِ جِدَةٌ

    فَإِنَّها ثَمَنٌ يُشرى بِهِ العارُ

    And anyone who, when wealth comes into his hand,

    Makes it a price with which disgrace is bought.

  28. الفَقرُ أَجمَلُ ثَوبٍ للّئيمِ وَإِنْ

    عابَ الكَريمَ وَبَعضُ الفُقرِ سَتَّارُ

    Poverty is the finest garment for the base man, though

    It blemishes the noble; some poverty conceals faults.

  29. وَشَرُّ ما اِمتازَ قَدرُ الأَغبياءِ بِهِ

    إِذا غابَ مِنهُم بِالفلسِ أَسعارُ

    And wretched is what distinguishes the standing of fools:

    Once it leaves them, their prices are reckoned in coppers.

  30. وَإِنَّما الفَضلُ ما أَبديتَهُ لَهُمُ

    لَو كانَ فيهِم لِمَرأى الفَضلِ أَبصارُ

    True excellence is only what you have shown them,

    If only they had eyes to see excellence.

  31. فَدُم لَهُم سائِداً في كُلِّ مَكرُمةٍ

    بِمثلِها قادَ عُنقَ الدَهرِ أَحرارُ

    So remain their leader in every noble deed

    By whose like freeborn men have led time by the neck.

  32. وَلتَهنِكَ الرُتبةُ الأُولَى حَباكَ بِها

    مِن جودِ كَفّيهِ في الآفاقِ مِدرارُ

    May the highest rank delight you, bestowed upon you

    By one whose hands rain generosity across the horizons.

  33. مِن عِندِهِ يُنصَفُ الفَضلُ المُبين وَلا

    تُخفي عَلَيهِ لِأَهل الفَضل أَقدارُ

    From him, manifest merit receives its due, and

    The standing of men of merit is never hidden from him.

  34. وَمِن إِرادَتِهِ حُكمٌ فَمَن رَفَعَت

    فَما لرفعَتِهِ في الأَرضِ إِنكارُ

    His will is a decree: whomever it raises,

    None on earth disputes his elevation.

  35. عَبد الحَميدِ الَّذي في ظِلِّهِ اِستَتَرَت

    مِن البَسيطةِ أَقطارٌ وَأَمصارُ

    Abd al-Hamid, beneath whose shade have sheltered

    Regions and great cities of the earth.

  36. تَجري الرِياحُ تِباعاً تَحتَ رايَتِهِ

    إِذا جَرَت وَتُقِلُّ الفُلكَ أَبحارُ

    The winds run in succession beneath his banner

    Whenever they blow, and seas bear ships.

  37. مُلكٌ إِذا نَظَرَت في الأَمرِ فِكرَتَهُ

    فَالدَهرُ يَومٌ ووجهُ الأَرضِ أَشبارُ

    Such sovereign power: when his mind considers a matter,

    All time is a day, and the earth's expanse mere handspans.

  38. لَهُ مِن القَدَرِ الجاري جَلاوِزَةً

    وَمِن مَلائكةِ الرَحمانِ أَنصارُ

    He has guards drawn from the course of destiny,

    And helpers from the angels of the All-Merciful.

  39. فَدُمْ لنا ما فيا الغُصنُ النَسيمُ وَما

    تَحرَكَتْ مِن جُفونِ العَينِ أَشفارُ

    So remain with us while the breeze sways the bough, and while

    Lashes stir upon the eyelids.

  40. وَرُمْ بِهِ راقياً أَرَّخَتُ ما نُسِجَت

    بِمَدحِهِ خُطَبٌ منا وَأَشعارُ

    And seek ascent through him—I mark the date—so long as are woven

    Speeches and poems from us in his praise.