Sol 6.1

  1. عَلى ثَراك غَوادي الصُبحِ تَنهَمرُ

    يا راحِلاً تَحتَ ظلِّ اللَّهِ يَستَتِرُ

    Upon your grave-soil the morning showers pour,

    O departed one, sheltered beneath God's shade.

  2. جَرحتَ بَعدَك أَكباداً بِسَهمِ أَسىً

    في كُلِّ جَفن لِماضي نَصلهِ أَثَرُ

    In your wake, you have wounded hearts with an arrow of grief;

    each eyelid bears a trace of its keen blade.

  3. مَناحَةٌ تَحتَ جنحِ اللَّيلِ قائمة

    بِها الأَصيلُ خَضيب الذَّيلِ وَالسَّحرُ

    A lamentation stands beneath the wing of night;

    in it, dusk and the predawn hour wear dyed hems.

  4. وَمَأَتمٌ بِطباقِ السُّحبِ مُتَّصِلٌ

    حَقّ عَلى عَبَراتِ السُّحبِ تَنفَجرُ

    And mourning stretches through the layers of clouds;

    rightly must the clouds' tears burst forth.

  5. اِستَودِعُ اللَّهُ غُصناً مالَ مُنكَسِراً

    فَمالَ كُل فُؤادٍ وَهوَ مُنكَسرُ

    I entrust to God a branch that bowed, broken,

    and every heart bowed, itself broken.

  6. هَبَّت عَلَيهِ مِنَ الأَقدارِ عاصِفة

    راحَت بِها جَمرات الحُزنِ تَستَعرُ

    A storm from the decrees of fate blew upon it,

    and through it, the embers of grief began to blaze.

  7. كَأَنَّ ما جَفَّ مِن أَمواهِ نُضرَتِهِ

    أَمسى عَلَيهِ مِنَ الأَجفانِ يَنحَدرُ

    As though the waters of its freshness, once dried away,

    now streamed upon it from eyelids.

  8. قَد ساروا أَسفَاً عَنا بِلا ثَمَرٍ

    فَلَيسَ إِلى الأَسى مِن بَعدِهِ ثَمَرُ

    They have gone from us, alas, without fruit;

    so, after him, grief bears no fruit.

  9. طالَ النُّواحُ لَهُ مِن كُلِّ ذي كَبِدٍ

    حَرَّى تَذوب اُلتياعاً حينَ يدَّكِرُ

    Long is the wailing for him from every heart,

    burning, melting with anguish whenever it remembers.

  10. وَكُلّ باكٍ هَشيم الوَجهِ بَعدَ فَتىً

    بِالدُّودِ باتَ هَشيماً وَجهَهُ النَضِرُ

    And every weeper's face is withered after losing a youth

    whose fresh face the worms have reduced to fragments.

  11. يا رَحمةَ اللَهِ حلّي في ثَرى قَمَرٍ

    قَد اِرتَدى بِالدُّجى مِن أَجلِهِ القَمرُ

    O God's mercy, dwell in the grave-soil of a moon,

    for whose sake the moon has robed itself in darkness.

  12. وَيا غَمائمُ زوريهِ محيِّيَةً

    وَجهاً لَهُ كانَ يُستَسقَى بِهِ المَطرُ

    And, O clouds, visit him, greeting

    his face, through which rain was once implored,

  13. رَيان ضمَّنَ مِنهُ اللَّحد جَوهرةً

    لاقَت بِأَمثالها مَن دَمعِنا الدُّرَرُ

    fresh and well-watered; the tomb has enclosed him as a jewel,

    met by matching pearls from our tears.

  14. يا قَبرَ جرجسَ مِن تُربٍ وَمِن حَجَرٍ

    ما أَنصَفَ البَدرُ ذاكَ التُّربَ وَالحَجَرُ

    O grave of Jirjis, made of earth and stone,

    that earth and stone have done no justice to the full moon,

  15. وَلا قَضيب النَقا تَذوي مَعاطفه

    في قَفرة بِمياه الدَمع تَزدَهر

    nor to the sand dune's bough, whose supple limbs wither

    in a wilderness blooming with the waters of tears.

  16. وَيلاهُ مِن سَطَواتِ البينِ فاتِكةً

    بِكُلِّ نَفسٍ فَلا تُبقِي وَلا تَذرُ

    Alas for the onslaughts of separation, ravaging

    every soul, sparing none and leaving none.

  17. باتَ الشَّبابُ رَخيصاً في نَواظرِهِ

    وَلم يُوقَّرْ لَدَيهِ الشَّيبُ وَالكِبَرُ

    Youth has become cheap in its eyes,

    and gray hair and old age find no honor with it.

  18. يا مَن صَبَرتَ لِطولِ السُّقمِ عَن جَلَدٍ

    مِن أَينَ صَبرُ قُلوبٍ فيكَ تَنفَطِرُ

    O you who endured long illness with fortitude,

    where can hearts breaking over you find patience?

  19. ما كانَ أَعظَم ما قاسَيتَ مِن أَلَمٍ

    وَأَنتَ في الشُّكرِ تُمسي حَيث تَبتَكرُ

    How immense was the pain you endured,

    while you ended each day in gratitude, just as you began it.

  20. طابَت بِهِ مِنكَ نَفسٌ بَرَّةٌ عَلِمَت

    بِأَن عُقباهُ في دار البَقا الظَفَرُ

    Your righteous soul was content with it, knowing

    that its outcome in the abode of eternity would be triumph.

  21. كفيتُ فيها بَلا الدُنيا وَشِدَّتها

    ممتَّعاً بِنَعيمٍ ما بِهِ كَدَرُ

    There I was spared the world's affliction and hardship,

    enjoying bliss unclouded by distress.

  22. تَصَبَّروا يا بَني فَياضَ بَعد فَتىً

    أَمضى بِهِ وَبِنا أَحكامهُ القَدَرُ

    Be patient, O sons of Fayyad, after losing a youth

    on whom, and on us, fate has enforced its decrees.

  23. يَعِزُّ وَاللَه عِندي أَن أُعَزيكُم

    عَنهُ وَدَمعُ جُفوني فيهِ مُنتَثِرُ

    By God, it is hard for me to console you

    for his loss, while tears from my eyelids spill for him.

  24. أَولى الخُطوب بِأَن تُدمى القُلوب بِهِ

    لَو كانَ يَقضي بِأَن تدمى لَنا وَطَرُ

    Of all calamities, this most deserves that hearts should bleed,

    if their bleeding could fulfill any wish of ours.

  25. وَإِنَّما نَحنُ في أَرضٍ إِذا اِعتبرَت

    لَيسَت سِوى مَأتمٍ ناحَت بِهِ البَشَرُ

    Yet we dwell on an earth which, upon reflection,

    is nothing but a mourning assembly where humanity has wailed.

  26. في كُلِ يَومٍ أُناسٌ فَوقَها فُجِعوا

    عَلى أُناسٍ طوَتهم تَحتَها الحُفَرُ

    Every day, people upon it are bereaved

    for others whom the graves have enfolded beneath it.

  27. بئسَ الحَياةُ التي ما زالَ وارِدُها

    يُمازجُ الوَردَ في كاساتِهِ الصَدَرُ

    Wretched is life, whose drinker forever finds

    departure mingled with arrival in his cups.

  28. حالان إِحداهُما مَملوءةٌ خَطَراً

    مِمَّا يَليها وَأُخرى فاتَها الحَذَرُ

    Two states: one is filled with peril

    from what follows it; in the other, caution comes too late.