Sol 6.1

  1. هدَم الأنامُ وجئت انت تشيدُ

    فانهض الى محراب دهرك يقتدوا

    Humankind tore down, and you came to build.

    So rise to your age's prayer niche, that they may follow your example.

  2. الناسُ ما طلبوا الضلال وإِنما

    ضلُّوا لأن هداتهم لم يهتدُوا

    People did not seek error; rather,

    They went astray because their guides were not guided.

  3. ويلسونُ قم فيهم مقامك أنهم

    لو ساد فيهم مصلحٌ لم يفسدُوا

    Wilson, take your station among them; for they

    Would not have become corrupt had a reformer led them.

  4. بلغوا بدهر همو نهاية فجعة

    مشؤمةٍ فابدأ طريقاً يبتدوا

    They brought their age to the height of a calamity,

    Ill-omened; so blaze a path, and let them begin.

  5. من شرِّ ما عاب السياسةً انها

    وجدت ومن يرضونها لم يوجدوا

    Among the worst defects of politics is that

    It exists, while those who approve of it do not.

  6. ان لم تكن قيداً تجدها مقوَداً

    كل الورى قيدُوا بها أو قيدوا

    If it is not a shackle, you find it a leash;

    All humankind are led by it or shackled.

  7. حريةٌ في ما يقال وانما

    في ما نرى حريةٌ تستعبدُ

    Freedom in what is said; but in fact,

    In what we see, a freedom that enslaves.

  8. ناريةٌ أو ما رأيت رجالها

    أعمالهم ان يوقدوا او يخمدوا

    Fiery—or have you not seen its men?

    Their deeds are to kindle fires or extinguish them.

  9. فإذا اردت بها مظنة رحمةٍ

    فكن الحديد الصلبَ فهي الجلمدُ

    So if you seek in it a prospect of mercy,

    Then be solid iron, for it is hard rock.

  10. ظنَّ السيوفَ اذا اشتبكن اضالعاً

    أترى لها قلباً يرقُّ ويسعدُ

    Imagine the swords, when interlocked, as ribs;

    Do you think they have a heart that softens and gives aid?

  11. والدمع لم ينبت نباتاً في الثرى

    فاذا سقى زرعاً فماذا تحصدُ

    And tears have not made plants grow in the soil;

    So if they water a crop, what will you harvest?

  12. ويلسون قد بيتها وجلوتها

    للناس من يسهو من يتعمدُ

    Wilson, you have planned it by night and unveiled it

    To the people: those who are heedless, those who act deliberately.

  13. وصدمت باطل ذي السياسة صدمةً

    قد لان فيها كل من يتشدد

    And you struck the falsehood of this politics a blow

    Under which everyone unyielding grew pliant.

  14. ولقد علمت ولا محالة انها

    ضرَمٌ على أكبادهم لا يبردُ

    And you have known, beyond all doubt, that it is

    A blaze upon their livers that does not cool.

  15. هذا يصاول ذا وذاك مراوغ

    وجميعهم متثعلبٌ مستأسدُ

    This one assails that one, while that one evades,

    And all play the fox and play the lion.

  16. ما كان غليوم ليأتي ما أتى

    لو لم يكن غليومُ آخر انكدُ

    Guillaume would not have done what he did

    Had there not been another, more baleful Guillaume.

  17. كيف السلام وكلهم مستوفرٌ

    طمعاً وكلٌّ من سواهُ مكمدُ

    How can there be peace, when all are brimming

    With greed, and each is embittered by the others?

  18. ظفرٌ على ظفر ونابٌ ينتحي

    ناباً فأين ترى التوحش يبعدُ

    Claw against claw, and a fang lunging

    At a fang—where, then, do you see savagery receding?

  19. الحق ما بينتَ غير ملجلج

    من يمض في حق فلا يترددُ

    Truth is what you have made plain, without equivocation;

    Whoever advances in truth does not hesitate.

  20. افصحت إِفصاح المهنَّد يُنتضى

    ولأنت في كف الزمان مهنَّدُ

    You spoke with the clarity of an Indian sword unsheathed,

    And you are indeed an Indian sword in the palm of time.

  21. واتيتهم بسياسة مكشوفة

    وبلاغة السوَّاس ان يتعقدوا

    And you came to them with a policy laid bare,

    While politicians' eloquence lies in being convoluted.

  22. هي عادة فليبتغوا بدلاً بها

    ان الخلائق في الانام تعوُّدُ

    It is a habit; let them seek a substitute for it;

    For human dispositions are a matter of habit.

  23. حاربت حرب الانبياء لغاية

    ما نالها الاَّ النبيُّ محمدُ

    You fought the prophets' battle for an end

    That none attained but the Prophet Muhammad.

  24. الله فيها ضامن تأييدهُ

    ولذاك فازوا مذ نزلت وأُيدوا

    God guarantees His support in it;

    And thus they have triumphed since you arrived, and have been aided.

  25. لا للبلاد نزلت كي تبتزَّها

    ابناءَها وتقول قوموا واقعدوا

    Not for the lands did you come, to rob them

    Of their sons, and say, 'Rise and sit down';

  26. أو للمطامع في الضعاف تنالها

    فتذلهم وتقول عيشوا وارغدوا

    Or to gain what you covet among the weak,

    Then abase them and say, 'Live and live in plenty';

  27. بل للعدالة في الطغاة تقيمها

    من بعد ما سخروا بها وتمردوا

    But to establish justice among the tyrants,

    After they had mocked it and rebelled.

  28. جعلوا العدالة للضعاف مذلَّة

    ما بالضعيف فضيلة تتمجدُ

    They made justice a humiliation for the weak;

    No virtue in the weak attains renown.

  29. ما نالها شعب ضعيف يدَّعي

    ما دام فيها مستبدٌّ يجحدُ

    No weak nation claiming it has attained it,

    So long as a despot persists in denying it.

  30. انزلتَ قومك للجلاد فدافعوا

    في ذمة الحق المباح وانجدوا

    You sent your people into battle, and they fought back,

    In defense of violated right, and came to the rescue.

  31. كانوا ملائكة السلام بحربهم

    ذُعرت شياطين العدى فتبدَّدوا

    They were angels of peace through their war;

    The devils of the foes were terrified and scattered.

  32. لم يضربوا بسيوفهم كي يكسروا

    هاماً ولكن قيدَ من يتقيدُ

    They did not strike with their swords to break

    Heads, but the shackles of those held captive.

  33. حطموا بها استبداد جبار الورى

    والارض لاستبدادهِ تتجلدُ

    With them they shattered the tyranny of humankind's despot,

    While the earth endured his tyranny.

  34. واستهدفوا يفدونها حريةً

    بنفوسهم وكذا يسود السيد

    And they made themselves targets, ransoming freedom

    With their lives; thus does a leader gain mastery.

  35. موت المجاهد في سبيل فضيلة

    هو للفضيلة في سواهُ مولدُ

    The fighter's death in the cause of virtue

    Is a birth of virtue in others.

  36. أبناءُ امريكا وكم من معجز

    في الارض امريكا بهِ تتفرَّدُ

    Sons of America—and how many a marvel

    On earth sets America apart!

  37. صنعوا لاهل الارض كل بديعة

    مشهورةف ي الاختراع ودوَّدوا

    They made for the people of earth every wondrous thing

    Renowned in invention—and [unclear: 'they became worm-infested'].

  38. واليوم قاموا يصنعون لدهرهم

    مستقبلاً يزهو برونقهِ الغدُ

    And today they have risen to fashion for their age

    A future in whose splendor tomorrow will glory.

  39. ما بعد امريكا واقيانوسها

    في البر أو في البحر هول يشهدُ

    Beyond America and its ocean, no

    Terror is witnessed on land or sea.

  40. ويلسون ان المال اصل شرورنا

    والاصل منهُ فروعهُ تتمددُ

    Wilson, money is the root of our evils;

    And from the root its branches spread.

  41. فاذا اردت الخير للدنيا وما

    للخير الاَّ ما قصدت وتقصد

    So if you wish the world well—and nothing

    Serves goodness but what you have intended and intend—

  42. فضع الغني بموضع لا يشتفي

    وضع الفقير بموضع لا يحقد

    Then put the rich where they cannot gloat,

    And put the poor where they bear no resentment.

  43. علمهمو ان السياسة رحمة

    وأُبوة لا نقمة وتعبُّدُ

    Teach them that politics is mercy

    And fatherhood, not vengeance and enslavement.

  44. واذكر لأهل الغرب أن الناس في

    ذي الارض ناس لا اقل وازيدُ

    And remind the people of the West that people on

    This earth are people, neither lesser nor greater.

  45. والله ما اعطى الورى الوانهم

    ليلونوا في رسمهِ ويحددوا

    And God did not give humankind its colors

    So they could color His design and draw dividing lines.

  46. البيض ما غُسلوا بجنة ربهم

    فعلام خصوا جنسهم وتسودوا

    White people were not washed in their Lord's paradise;

    Why, then, did they privilege their race and make themselves masters?

  47. بعض العقول على العقول بليةٌ

    ولضرّ شيء نفع شيء يفقدُ

    Some minds are a scourge upon other minds;

    And through one thing's harm, another thing's benefit is lost.