Claude 2

  1. لِمَنِ الدِيارُ بِأَبرَقِ الحَنّانِ

    فَالبُرقِ فَالهَضَباتِ مِن أُدمانِ

    To whom are the abodes with the lightning of sorrow,

    With lightning, then the hills from addiction?

  2. أَقوَت مَنازِلُها وَغَيَّرَ رَسمَها

    بَعدَ الأَنيسِ تَعاقُبُ الأَزمانِ

    Its dwellings have been weakened and its forms changed

    After the friend, the times alternate.

  3. فَوَقَفتُ فيها صاحِبَيَّ وَما بِها

    يا عَزَّ مِن نَعَمٍ وَلا إِنسانِ

    So I stood in it with my companions, and in it

    Is no grace or human.

  4. إِلّا الظِباءَ بِها كَأَنَّ نَزيبَها

    ضَربُ الشِراعِ نَواحِيَ الشِريانِ

    Except the gazelles in it as though their crying

    Is the quiver of sails in the regions of the artery.

  5. فَإِذا غَشيتُ لَها بِبُرقَةِ واسِطٍ

    فَلِوى لُبَينَةَ مَنزِلاً أَبكاني

    So when I covered it with a flash of Wāsiṭ,

    Lubaynah turned as an abode that made me weep.

  6. ثُمَّ اِحتَمَلنَ غُدَيَّةً وَصَرَمنَهُ

    وَالقَلبُ رَهنٌ عِندَ عَزَّةَ عانِ

    Then we bore the departure and bid it farewell,

    While my heart is held hostage to the dignity of Ān.

  7. وَلَقَد شَأَتكَ حُمولُها يَومَ اِستَوَت

    بِالفُرعِ بَينَ خَفَينَنٍ وَدِعانِ

    Indeed, its burdens had grown the day they halted

    Among the branches between Khafaynān and Diʿān.

  8. فَالقَلبُ أَصورُ عِندَهُنَّ كَأَنَّما

    يَجذِبنَهُ بِنَوازِعِ الأَشطانِ

    So the heart sketches them as though

    They attract it with the temptations of devils.

  9. طافَ الخَيالُ لِآلِ عَزَّةَ مَوهِناً

    بَعدَ الهُدُوِّ فَهاجَ لي أَحزاني

    Imagination roamed the family of Āzzah abased

    After dignity, so my sorrows raged within me.

  10. فَأَلَمَّ مِن أَهلِ البُوَيبِ خَيالُها

    بِمُعَرَّسٍ مِن أَهلِ ذي ذَروانِ

    So it pained me from the people of Buwayb, their image

    With a bride from the people of Dharwān.

  11. رُدَّت عَلَيهِ الحاجِبِيَّةُ بَعدَما

    خَبَّ السَفاءُ بِقَزقَزِ القُريانِ

    Al-Ḥājibiyah was returned to him after the stupidity

    Flowed with the clamor of monkeys.

  12. وَلَقَد حَلفتُ لَها يَميناً صادِقاً

    بِاللَهِ عِندَ مَحارِمِ الرَحمانِ

    And indeed I swore to it a true oath

    By God among the sanctities of the Merciful,

  13. بِالراقِصاتِ عَلى الكَلالِ عَشِيَّةً

    تَغشى مَنابِتَ عَرمَضِ الظَهرانِ

    By the dancers atop the wine-skin in the evening

    Covering the slopes of ʿArmaḍ al-Ẓahrān.