يا حادِيَ العِيسِ عرّجْ بي على الدِّمَنِ

فكم لنا عندهنّ اليوم من شَجَنِ

O guide of the camel litter, stop by us at the sand dune

For today we have much yearning there

ماذا على النّفرِ الغادين لو سمحوا

بنظرةٍ من خلالِ السِّجْفِ لم تَبنِ

What if the departing group allowed

A glance through the litter's curtain that did not last

قالوا نراك بلا سُقْمٍ فقلتُ لهمْ

السُّقمُ في الجسمِ ليس السُّقْمُ في البدنِ

They said, "We see you are without illness," so I said to them

"The illness is in the body, not the illness in the constitution

في القلبِ منكمْ حَزازاتٌ لو اِنكَشَفتْ

لِعاذِلي فيكمُ ما بات يَعذُلني

In the heart from you are sorrows, if they were uncovered

My reproachers among you, what kept reproaching me

هل في الهوى من غريمٍ لا يماطلني

أوْ من خليلٍ عليه لا يُعنّفني

Is there in passion an enemy who does not cheat me

Or a friend who does not reprimand me

لا يعرف الدَّارَ إلّا قام يندبُها

ولا يسائلها إِلّا عن السَّكَنِ

He does not know the house unless he stood lamenting it

And does not ask about it except about tranquility

ولي فُؤادٌ إِذا أصبحتَ تأمُرُه

بالصّبرِ أمسى بغير الصَّبْرِ يأمرني

And I have a heart, when you order it in the morning

With patience, it spends the evening ordering me without patience

ومسرفٌ كلَّما واصَلْتُ قاطعني

بَغْياً عليَّ وإِنْ واصلتُ باعدني

And a waster, whenever I associate with him, he interrupts me

Out of hatred towards me, and if I associate with him, he distances me

وإِنْ شكوتُ إِليه بعضَ قَسْوَتِهِ

لانَتْ صخورُ شروري وهو لم يَلِنِ

And if I complain to him about some of his harshness

The rocks of my evils softened while he did not soften

وقد جفانيَ حتّى أَنّ طارقَهُ

في ظُلمة اللّيل عمداً ليس يطرُقني

He has spurned me until his knocker in the darkness of night

Intentionally does not knock on me

للَّهِ أيّامُ فخرِ الملك مَن عَلِقَتْ

به المكارمُ مجرى الرّوحِ للبدنِ

By God, the days of the pride of the king who

Virtues clung to him like the soul to the body

ومَن يَجود بما تحوي أنامِلُهُ

من النّفائس في سرٍّ وفي عَلَنِ

And one who gives generously what his fingers contain

Of precious things secretly and openly

أَعطيتَ حتّى كأنّ الجودَ مُبتَدَعٌ

وإِنّ شيئاً من المعروفِ لم يكنِ

You have given until it is as if generosity was invented

And no favor had ever happened before

للَّهِ دَرُّك والأبطالُ هائبةٌ

واليومُ يعنُفُ بالطّاقاتِ والمُنَنِ

By God, your eminence, and the heroes stand in awe

And today scolds with bundles and gifts

والسُّمرُ تفتُقُ طعناً كلَّ راعفةٍ

من النّجيع بمثل العارِضِ الهَتِنِ

And the spears rip every weak heart

From the resting place like the supple branch

في ظهر طاويةِ الأحشاءِ ضامرةٍ

كأنّها قِدْحُ نَبْعٍ جِيب بالسَّفَنِ

In the back of the belly's cavity languishing

As if it were the vessel of a spring brought down in floods

قُل للّذينَ أَرادوا نيلَ غايتِهِ

أين الحضيضُ من الأعلامِ والقُنَنِ

Say to those who wanted to achieve his goal

Where is the nadir from the banners and flags

كَم ذا اِهتَديتم ولا هادٍ سواه على

ظلماءَ لو مرّ فيها الصّبحُ لم يَبِنِ

How much you were guided while none guides but Him

Through darknesses - if dawn passed through them, it would not appear

أُحبُّهُ وقليلٌ ذاك مُحتَقَرٌ

حبَّ الغريبِ القَصِيِّ الدّارِ للوطَنِ

I love him, and that is little, despised

The love of the stranger, the distant one to the homeland

وأَرْتضي مُلكَه لي بعدما عزفتْ

نفسي عن المَلِكِ الجبّار يملكني

And I accept his kingdom after my soul

Turned away from the Compeller King who owns me

وأَرتجيهِ لأيّامٍ أُطالعُها

غيباً بلا باطلٍ فيها ولا دَرَنِ

And I hope for days I foresee them

Invisibly, with no falsehood, fatigue, or activity in them

يَفديك كلُّ وساعِ الباعِ في طَبَعٍ

شَحْطٍ على مُرتجيه ضيّقِ العَطَنِ

May all who have a narrow-spirited nature ransom you

Tightfisted to his hopers, narrow in livelihood

ما زالَ وَالنّاسُ شتّى في خلائقهم

غَرْثانَ من كرمٍ ملآنَ من جُبُنِ

He has not stopped while people are different in their natures

Some are fertile in generosity, fully cowardly

يريد نيلَ العُلا عفواً بلا تعبٍ

وكم دُوَيْنَ العُلا من مركبٍ خَشِنِ

He wants to gain elevation easily without fatigue

And how much the elevation is built from a rough ship

لا يُدرك العزَّ إلّا كلُّ ذي أَنَفٍ

نابٍ عن العجزِ شَرّادٍ عن الوَهَنِ

Only the one dignified attains honor

Turning away from incapacity, sheltering from feebleness

يُلقِي الثَّراءَ على وجهِ الثَّرى أبداً

ويترك الغثَّ منبوذاً على السَّمِنِ

He throws riches on the face of the ground forever

And leaves the rubbish discarded on the fats

دان الزّمانُ لنا بعد الجِماحِ ولو

سواك راضَ شِماساً منه لم يَدِنِ

Time is indebted to us after ambition even if

Apart from you, it was pleased with a server, it would not come close

فَالآنَ نَجرِي إلى اللّذّاتِ نأخذها

بِلا عِذارٍ يُعنّينا ولا رَسَنِ

So now we run to pleasures and take them

Without any excuse that grieves us or any rope

هُنِّيتَ بالعيدِ واِعتادتْ ربُوعَك مِن

سعودِهِ كلُّ وطْفاءٍ من المُزُنِ

You were gladdened by the feast and your meadows got used to

Its bliss - every plain from the valleys

وعشتَ من نَبَواتِ الدّهرِ قاطبةً

وإنْ دَهَيْن الورى في أوثقِ الجُنَنِ

And you lived fully the springtimes of fate

Even if the vicinities went mad in the tightest insanity

وَلا تَغِب عَن نعيمٍ ظَلْتَ تألفُهُ

ولا تَخِبْ عن مُنىً فيه ولا تَهِنِ

And you do not miss any bliss you were used to

And you do not disappear from a purpose in it, tire or become base

هذا الثّناءُ فإنْ كانتْ مدائِحُهُ

يقصُرْن عنك فبُعْدُ الشَّأْوِ يعذُرني

This praise, if its praises

Fall short of you, then grandeur's distance excuses me

ومَنْ يُطيقُ وإن أَوفَت بلاغتُهُ

يُثني بكلِّ الّذي أوتيتَ من حَسَنِ

And who can, even if his eloquence is perfected

Praise all that you were given of beauty