Sol 6.1

  1. أَتَصحو بَل فُؤادُكَ غَيرُ صاحِ

    عَشِيَّةَ هَمَّ صَحبُكَ بِالرَواحِ

    Are you sober? No—your heart is not sober,

    On the evening your companions resolved to depart.

  2. يَقولُ العاذِلاتُ عَلاكَ شَيبٌ

    أَهَذا الشَيبُ يَمنَعُني مِراحي

    The reproving women say: Gray hair has overtaken you.

    Does this gray hair forbid me my merriment?

  3. يُكَلِّفُني فُؤادي مِن هَواهُ

    ظَعائِنَ يَجتَزِعنَ عَلى رُماحِ

    My heart, in its passion, demands of me

    Women in howdahs passing through Rumah,

  4. ظَعائِنَ لَم يَدِنَّ مَعَ النَصارى

    وَلا يَدرينَ ما سَمكُ القَراحِ

    Women who have not followed the Christians' faith

    Nor know how high a palace rises.

  5. فَبَعضُ الماءِ ماءُ رَبابِ مُزنٍ

    وَبَعضُ الماءِ مِن سَبَخٍ مِلاحِ

    For some water comes from banks of rain clouds,

    And some water comes from briny salt flats.

  6. سَيَكفيكَ العَواذِلَ أَرحَبِيٌّ

    هِجانُ اللَونِ كَالفَرَدِ اللَياحِ

    An Arhabi camel will spare you the reproving women,

    Pure white in color, like a gleaming solitary wild bull.

  7. يَعُزُّ عَلى الطَريقِ بِمَنكَبَيهِ

    كَما اِبتَرَكَ الخَليعُ عَلى القِداحِ

    He bears down on the road with his shoulders,

    As a reckless gambler crouches over the lot-arrows.

  8. تَعَزَّت أُمُّ حَزرَةَ ثُمَّ قالَت

    رَأَيتُ الوارِدينَ ذَوي اِمتِناحِ

    Umm Hazrah took heart, then said:

    I have seen those who come to water receive gifts.

  9. تُعَلِّلُ وَهيَ ساغِبَةٌ بَنيها

    بِأَنفاسٍ مِنَ الشَبِمِ القَراحِ

    She soothes her sons, though she herself is hungry,

    With draughts of cold, pure water.

  10. سَأَمتاحُ البُحورَ فَجَنِّبيني

    أَذاةَ اللَومِ وَاِنتَظِري اِمتِياحي

    I shall draw water from the seas, so spare me

    The hurt of blame, and await what I draw.

  11. ثِقي بِاللَهِ لَيسَ لَهُ شَريكٌ

    وَمِن عِندِ الخَليفَةِ بِالنَجاحِ

    Trust in God, who has no partner,

    And be sure of success from the caliph.

  12. أَغِثني يا فَداكَ أَبي وَأُمّي

    بِسَيبٍ مِنكَ إِنَّكَ ذو اِرتِياحِ

    Help me—may my father and mother be your ransom—

    With bounty from you, for you delight in giving.

  13. فَإِنّي قَد رَأَيتُ عَلَيَّ حَقّاً

    زِيارَتِيَ الخَليفَةَ وَاِمتِداحي

    For I have deemed it a duty upon me

    To visit the caliph and sing his praise.

  14. سَأَشكُرُ أَن رَدَدتَ عَلَيَّ ريشي

    وَأَثبَتَّ القَوادِمَ في جَناحي

    I shall give thanks that you restored my plumage,

    And secured the flight feathers in my wing.

  15. أَلَستُم خَيرَ مَن رَكِبَ المَطايا

    وَأَندى العالَمينَ بُطونَ راحِ

    Are you not the best of those who ride camels,

    And the most generous-handed of all mankind?

  16. وَقَومٍ قَد سَمَوتَ لَهُم فَدانوا

    بِدُهمٍ في مُلَملَمَةٍ رَداحِ

    And many a people you advanced against and subdued,

    With black steeds in a vast, close-packed host.

  17. أَبَحتَ حِمى تِهامَةَ بَعدَ نَجدٍ

    وَما شَيءٌ حَمَيتَ بِمُستَباحِ

    You laid open Tihamah's protected domain after Najd,

    Yet nothing you protect can be violated.

  18. لَكُم شُمُّ الجِبالِ مِنَ الرَواسي

    وَأَعظَمُ سَيلَ مُعتَلِجِ البِطاحِ

    Yours are the loftiest of the firmly rooted mountains,

    And the mightiest torrent in the broad valleys' turmoil.

  19. دَعَوتَ المُلحِدينَ أَبا خُبَيبٍ

    جِماحاً هَل شُفيتَ مِنَ الجِماحِ

    You summoned the heretics, Abu Khubayb,

    In headstrong rebellion—are you cured of rebellion?

  20. فَقَد وَجَدوا الخَليفَةَ هِبرِزِيّاً

    أَلَفَّ العيصِ لَيسَ مِنَ النَواحي

    For they found the caliph a noble, valiant lord,

    From a dense thicket of kin, not from its fringes.

  21. فَما شَجَراتُ عيصِكَ في قُرَيشٍ

    بِعَشّاتِ الفُروعِ وَلا ضَواحي

    For the trees of your thicket among Quraysh

    Are neither sparse of branch nor outlying.

  22. رَأى الناسُ البَصيرَةَ فَاِستَقاموا

    وَبَيَّنَتِ المِراضُ مِنَ الصِحاحِ

    The people saw clear truth and followed the straight path,

    And the sick stood clearly apart from the healthy.