Sol 6.1

  1. ظعنوا فثارَ من الفؤآد شواظ

    وَبمهجتي ثارَت لهم اقياظ

    They departed, and a flame rose from the heart.

    And in my lifeblood, summer heats flared for them.

  2. ظبيات أَنس في الحشآء رواتِع

    ومقيلهم وادى الغضى وَعكاظ

    Gazelles in human form graze within my breast,

    And their midday haunts are Wadi al-Ghada and Ukaz.

  3. ظلموا الكَئيب بمنعه عَن ظلمهم

    أَرأَيت يرعى في الملاح حفاظ

    They wronged the sorrowful one by denying him their mouths’ moisture.

    Have you seen fidelity respected among the fair?

  4. ظنّ العذول بأنَّ قَلبي قد سَلا

    بالعذل عنهم وهو لي ايقاظ

    The reproacher thought my heart had ceased to pine

    For them through reproach—yet it only awakens me.

  5. ظفروا بصبّ هائِم بِظفائِر

    منهم وَقَد فتكت به الأَلحاظ

    They captured a love-crazed lover with braids

    Of theirs, while glances had already slain him.

  6. ظام وحمل الضيم قد أَودى به

    فله دما تلك الدموع لماظ

    He thirsts; the burden of oppression has undone him.

    So the blood of those tears is his scant draught.

  7. ظهرت عليه من الغَرام أمارة

    هَل يَختَفي المسرور وَالمغتاظ

    A sign of passion appeared upon him.

    Can the joyful and the enraged remain concealed?

  8. ظلعت نجائبه وَقد حثه السرى

    قوم وعبء همومه بهاظ

    His noble camels limped, though he had been urged to travel by night

    By people; the burden of his cares was crushing.

  9. ظلم الغَرام تَراكَمَت لما جفوا

    قَلبي وأَيام الصبابة قاظوا

    Love’s darkness gathered when they spurned

    My heart, and spent their summer in the days of yearning.

  10. ظمئى الفؤآد فَكيفَ تَروي غلتي

    وأهيل ودى طائِرون شظاظ

    Thirsty at heart—how can you quench my burning thirst,

    When my dear loved ones are flying away, scattered?

  11. ظبي رماني عَن قسى حواجِب

    منهم ولكنَّ السهام لحاظ

    A gazelle shot me from the bows of eyebrows

    Of theirs—but the arrows were glances.

  12. ظلمان حسن ظالِمون لصبهم

    وكَذا الحَبيب بظلمه ملظاظ

    Beauty’s ostriches wrong their lovesick lover,

    And so the beloved persists in his cruelty.

  13. ظأب الحداة جمالهم فعيونه

    فاضَت وأَحشاه قديما فاظوا

    The camel drivers urged their camels onward, and his eyes

    Overflowed; his very vitals had long since died.

  14. ظنَّ الأَنام بحبه وَدموعه

    أَبَداً لها بتدفق أَلظاظ

    People suspected he was in love, while his tears

    Forever persisted in their flow.

  15. ظفراه تقرع كلّ يوم سنه

    فهو الاسير مدله جوّاظ

    His two fingernails tap his tooth each day;

    So he is a captive, love-dazed and crying out.

  16. ظلفت عَن المَرعى نجائِب قصده

    فَلَها إِلى نادى الأَمير دلاظ

    His quest’s noble camels were kept from pasture,

    So they rushed toward the emir’s assembly.

  17. ظلت تسير مجدّة في سيرها

    وَحداة ذلك عصبة أَفظاظ

    They kept traveling, pressing earnestly along their way,

    And the drivers of that journey were a harsh band.

  18. ظلّ المَعالي أَحمد الرشد الَّذي

    خضعت شداد عنده وَغلاظ

    The shelter of high virtues, Ahmad al-Rushd, before whom

    The mighty and the harsh bowed in submission.

  19. ظهراً غدا للدين مسروراً به

    وَالكفر مَمقوت به مغتاظ

    He became religion’s support, and it rejoiced in him;

    And unbelief, loathed by him, was enraged.

  20. ظلماً نفى عني غداة قصدته

    فَلَنا بذاكَ صيانة وَحفاظ

    He banished injustice from me the morning I sought him;

    So through that we have protection and safekeeping.

  21. ظلف النزال كأَنّه في عصره

    عمرو الطَفيل وَسيفه جلواظ

    Stalwart in combat, he seems in his age to be

    Amr al-Tufayl, and his sword is mighty and massive.

  22. ظلام طعن راحم كل الملا

    كَم شتت بحسامه الأوشاظ

    Ruthless in thrusting, merciful to all the people—

    How often his sword has scattered the rabble!

  23. ظرف الرجال يفوقهم بظرائف

    عجبت لها القصاص والوعاظ

    The elegant one among men, he surpasses them with fine conceits

    At which storytellers and preachers marveled.

  24. ظفرت يداه بالعداة وَكلهم

    متذللون وَفي القلوب كظاظ

    His hands triumphed over his enemies, and all of them

    Are humbled, with choking distress in their hearts.

  25. ظئر الكَمال اذا قَضى أَمراً فَلَم

    يَلفى بأمر قد قضاه مظاظ

    Perfection’s foster-parent: when he decrees a matter, no

    Wrangling is found over what he has settled.

  26. ظلل تظلّ الآملين بداره

    فَلهم بفضل نواله ايقاظ

    Canopies shade the hopeful within his dwelling,

    So his abundant bounty awakens them.

  27. ظهرية الآمال ساق لحيكم

    فَعَسى تؤوب وَبالحمول شظاظ

    He drove hope’s pack-camel to your encampment;

    May she return, her loads secured with a wooden pack-pin.

  28. ظرف المَديح اليك أَهدى سمطها

    لكن جواهر نظمه الأَلفاظ

    The elegance of praise has offered you its necklace,

    But the jewels of its verse are words.

  29. ظمئت لجودك كل أَرباب العلا

    ما أَعلَنَت بقراءة حفاظ

    All the lords of eminence thirst for your generosity,

    As long as the memorizers recite aloud.