ما لِريمِ الكِناسِ ليسَ يَريمُ

أتُراهُ مُستَشعِراً ما يَرُومُ

Why does Rim Al-Kinasi not weep

Do you think he feels what he intends

أم كذاكَ الظِّباء يُعرَفُ في نَظ

رَتِها مَن يضيفُ ممَّن يَشِيمُ

Or like the gazelles, in their glance

Is known who settles and who departs

لا تَسُم نَفسَك التَّعزِّي بشَيءٍ

فالتعزِّي أعزُّ شَيءٍ تَسُومُ

Do not name yourself consoled with anything

For consolation is the greatest thing you can determine

مُت كَتُوماً تَمُت كَريماً فإن بُح

تَ فَسِيَّان بائِحٌ وكَتُومُ

Die concealed and you will die noble

For if you confess, both talebearer and concealed perish

كم إلى كم تَشكُو إلى النَّاسِ ما تَل

قَى مِن النَّاسِ والقُلوب جُسُومُ

How much will you complain to people of what you received

From people while hearts remain locked

وفِراقٌ فيهِ المَنايا أمانِي

يُ الفَرِيقَينِ والحِمامُ حَميمُ

And separation in which is death of desires

To both separated ones while the dove is intimate

لم تَدَع لي مِن الأحبَّةِ إلا

طارِقاً يَستَزِيرُهُ التَّهويمُ

You left me of loved ones only

A visitor frightened by insomnia

خِفتُ أن يَسمعَ الزَّمان بمَس

راهُ فَيَاتي بِلَوعَةٍ لا تُنِيمُ

I feared that time would hear his blindness

So he comes with a grief that does not soothe

فاستَوى في دُمُوعِ عَيني بالقَو

لِ جَهُولٌ بِفَيضِها وعَلِيمُ

So the ignorant equaled the knowledgeable in the tears of my eye

With its overflow

أتُرى انهَلَّت السَّحائِبُ في الصَّي

فِ بوَيلٍ أم جادَ إبراهِيمُ

Do you see the clouds poured down at night

In affliction or did Abraham yield

حاكِمٌ عادِلُ الحكُومَةِ إلا

في عَطاياهُ والعُفاةُ خُصُومُ

A ruler whose rule is just

Except in his gifts while the destitute are adversaries

ولأموالهِ حَرِيمٌ ولا مِن

ها عَلى كلِّ حالَةٍ مَحرُومُ

And for his money there is a sanctuary but from it

No one is deprived in any case

والنَّدى كالهَوى إِذا مَلَكَ الإن

سانُ لم يَثنِ عَزمَه مَن يَلومُ

And the dew like passion when it possesses a person

No one will deter his resolve who blames

لستُ أدري ماذا أقولُ ولو قَص

صَرتُ عمَّا أراهُ قلتُ كَريمُ

I do not know what to say and if I were concise

About what I see, I would say noble

ما لِمَن ساجَلَتكَ كفَّاهُ في جُو

دِكَ إلا التَّفويضُ والتَّسلِيمُ

What is for he who contends with you except submission

And concession in your generosity