Sol 6.1

  1. نَعَاءِ عَلَيْهِ أَيُّهَا الثَّقَلانِ

    فَقَدْ أَقْصَدَتْهُ أَسْهُمُ الْحَدَثَانِ

    Proclaim his death, O humankind and jinn,

    for the arrows of fate have struck him dead.

  2. مَضَى وَأَقَمْنَا بَعْدَهُ فِي مَأْتَمٍ

    عَلَى الْفَضْلِ نَبْكِيهِ بِأَحْمَرَ قَانِي

    He has gone, and we remain after him in mourning,

    mourning excellence, weeping for him with blood of deepest red.

  3. فَلا عَيْنَ إِلَّا وَهْيَ بِالدَّمْعِ ثَرَّةٌ

    وَلا قَلْبَ إِلَّا وَهْوَ ذُو خَفَقَانِ

    No eye but overflows with tears,

    and no heart but throbs,

  4. حِفَاظَاً وَإِشْفَاقَاً عَلَى مُتَرَحِّلٍ

    خَلَتْ أَرْبُعٌ مِنْ شَخْصِهِ وَمَغَانِي

    out of loyalty and tender concern for one departed,

    whose dwellings and familiar haunts stand empty of his presence.

  5. فَقَدْنَاهُ فِقْدَانَ الظِّمَاءِ شَرَابَهُمْ

    بِدَيْمُومَةٍ وَالْوِرْدُ لَيْسَ بِدَانِي

    We miss him as the thirsty miss their drink,

    in a trackless desert, with the watering place far away.

  6. فَيَا لِلْعُلَى كَيْفَ اسْتُبِيحَ ذِمَارُهَا

    وَلِلْفَضْلِ إِذْ يُرْمَى بِهِ الرَّجَوَانِ

    Alas for glory! How its sacred honor has been violated!

    And for excellence, when it is hurled from brink to brink!

  7. لَعَمْرِي لَقَدْ هَاجَ الأَسَى بَعْدَ فَقْدِهِ

    بِنَا لَوْعَةً لا تَنْثَنِي بِعِنَانِ

    By my life, after his loss sorrow has stirred

    in us a burning anguish no rein can curb.

  8. ضَمَانٌ عَلَى قَلْبِي صِيَانَةُ عَهْدِهِ

    وَمَا خَيْرُ قَلْبٍ لا يَفِي بِضَمَانِ

    Keeping faith with him is a pledge upon my heart;

    and what good is a heart that will not honor a pledge?

  9. تَخَلَّى عَنِ الدُّنْيَا وَأَبْقَى مَآثِرَاً

    يُقِرُّ لَهَا بِالْفَضْلِ كُلُّ لِسَانِ

    He left the world behind, but left enduring deeds

    whose excellence every tongue acknowledges.

  10. فَإِنْ يَكُ أَوْدَى فَهْوَ حَيٌّ بِفَضْلِهِ

    وَمَنْ كَانَ مَذْكُوراً فَلَيْسَ بِفَانِي

    Though he has perished, he lives through his excellence,

    and he who is remembered does not pass away.

  11. وَأَيُّ امْرِئٍ يَبْقَى وَدُونَ بَقَائِهِ

    نَهَارٌ وَلَيْلٌ بِالرَّدَى يَفِدَانِ

    And what man can endure, when barring his survival

    are day and night, both arriving with death?

  12. أَلا قَاتَلَ اللَّهُ الْحَيَاةَ فَإِنَّهَا

    إِلَى الْمَوْتِ أَدْنَى مِنْ فَمٍ لِبَنَانِ

    Ah, may God curse life, for it is

    nearer to death than a mouth is to fingertips.

  13. إِذَا مَا بَنَانَا الدَّهْرُ ظَلَّتْ صُرُوفُهُ

    تُهَدِّمُنَا وَالدَّهْرُ أَغْدَرُ بَانِي

    Whenever Time builds us up, its vicissitudes keep

    tearing us down; Time is the most treacherous builder.

  14. تُخَادِعُنَا الدُّنْيَا فَنَلْهُو وَلَمْ نَخَلْ

    بِأَنَّ الرَّدَى حَتْمٌ عَلَى الْحَيَوانِ

    The world beguiles us, so we play, never imagining

    that death is inevitable for all that lives.

  15. إِذَا مَا الأَبُ الأَعْلَى مَضَى لِسَبِيلِهِ

    فَمَا لِبَنِيهِ بِالْبَقَاءِ يَدَانِ

    If the first father has gone his way,

    then his sons have no power to live on.

  16. لَقَدْ فَجَعَتْنَا أُمُّ دَفْرٍ وَمَا دَرَتْ

    بِأَرْوَعَ مِنْ نَسْلِ النَّبِيِّ هِجَانِ

    Indeed, Umm Dafr, the foul world, has unwittingly bereaved us

    of a splendid, pure-born man of the Prophet's line.

  17. سَلِيمُ نَوَاحِي الصَّدْرِ لا يَسْتَفِزُّهُ

    نِزَاعٌ إِلَى الْبَغْضَاءِ وَالشَّنَآنِ

    Pure in every recess of his heart, he was never stirred

    by any urge toward hatred and rancor.

  18. يُعَاشِرُ بِالْحُسْنَى فَإِنْ رِيبَ لَمْ يَفُهْ

    بِسُوءٍ وَلَمْ تَرْمِزْ لَهُ شَفَتَانِ

    He treated others kindly; if troubled, he would not utter

    any ill, nor would his lips so much as hint at it.

  19. لَقَدْ كَانَ خِلاً لا يُشَانُ بِغَدْرَةٍ

    وَصَاحِبَ غَيْبٍ طَاهِرٍ وَعِيَانِ

    He was indeed a close friend unstained by betrayal,

    a companion blameless in absence and in presence.

  20. إِذَا قَالَ كَانَ الْقَوْلُ عُنْوَانَ فِعْلِهِ

    وَيَا رُبَّ قَوْلٍ نَافِذٍ كَسِنَانِ

    When he spoke, his words were a token of his deeds;

    and oh, how many a word pierced like a spearhead!

  21. خِلالٌ يَفُوحُ الْمِسْكُ عَنْهَا مُحَدِّثاً

    وَيُثْنِي عَلَى آثَارِهَا الْمَلَوَانِ

    Virtues from which musk wafts, telling their tale,

    and day and night extol the traces they have left.

  22. فَلا غَرْوَ أَنْ تَدْمَى الْعُيُونُ أَسَافَةً

    عَلَيْكَ وَيَرْعَى الْحُزْنُ كُلَّ جَنَانِ

    No wonder, then, that eyes bleed in sorrow

    for you, and grief feeds upon every heart.

  23. فَأَنْتَ ابْنُ مَنْ أَحْيَا الْبِلادَ بِعِلْمِهِ

    وَأَبْقَى لَهُ ذِكْرَاً بِكُلِّ مَكَانِ

    For you are the son of one who revived the lands with his knowledge

    and left his name remembered in every place.

  24. أَفَادَ بَنِي الأَوْطَانِ فَضْلاً سَمَوْا بِهِ

    إِلَى هَضَبَاتٍ فِي الْعُلا وَقِنَانِ

    He gave the sons of the homelands excellence through which they rose

    to plateaus and peaks in the heights of glory.

  25. وَأَنْتَ ابْنُهُ وَالْفَرْعُ يَتْبَعُ أَصْلَهُ

    وَمَا مِنْكُمَا إِلَّا جَوَادُ رِهَانِ

    And you are his son; the branch follows its root,

    and each of you is a noble racing steed.

  26. هُوَ الأَوَّلُ السَّبَّاقُ فِي كُلِّ حَلْبَةٍ

    وَأَنْتَ لَهُ دُونَ الْبَرِيَّةِ ثَانِي

    He is first, the frontrunner in every race,

    and you alone, of all creation, are second to him.

  27. فَيَا رَحْمَةَ اللَّهِ اسْتَهِلِّي عَلَيْهِمَا

    بِسَجْلَيْنِ لِلرِّضْوَانِ يَنْهَمِلانِ

    O mercy of God, rain down upon them both

    with two brimming buckets of divine favor pouring down;

  28. وَعُمِّي قُبُورَ الْعَالَمِينَ كَرَامَةً

    لِقَبْرَيْنِ بِالْبَطْحَاءِ يَلْتَقِيَانِ

    and encompass the graves of all humanity, in honor

    of two graves that meet in al-Batha.

  29. عَلَيْكَ سَلامُ اللَّهِ مِنِّي تَحِيَّةٌ

    يُوَافِيكَ فِي خُلْدٍ بِهَا الْمَلَكَانِ

    God's peace be upon you—a greeting from me,

    which the two angels bring you in eternity.