اخْسَا ولا تطغى أيَا سِلَمِي
؟!
أَتَرُومُ ذُلَّ الدِّينِ وَالْقِيَمِ؟!
Begone, and do not transgress, O Salm!
Do you seek the humiliation of faith and values?
أَتُحَارِبُ الإِسْلامَ شِرْعَتَهُ
؟!
بِكَتِيبَةِ الْعَلْمَانِ وَالْوَصَمِ؟!
Would you wage war on Islam and its sacred law
with a battalion of secularists and base rabble?
أَتَرُومُ طَمْسَ هُوِيَّةٍ ظَهَرَتْ
؟!
كَالْبَدْرِ وَسْطَ اللَّيْلِ وَالظُّلَمِ؟!
Do you seek to erase an identity that has emerged,
like the full moon amid night and darkness?
أَتَرُومُ مَنْعَ الْقَطْرِ تُمْطِرُهُ
؟!
سُحُبٌ مِنَ الرَّحَمَاتِ وَالنِّعَمِ؟!
Do you seek to hold back the rain poured down
by clouds of mercies and blessings?
؟!
أَتَرُومُ حَجْبَ الشَّمْسِ مَشْرِقِهَا؟!
سَتَبُوءُ بالْخُسْرَانِ وَالنِّقَمِ
Do you seek to veil the sun at its rising?
You will return with loss and retribution.
؟!
أَتَرُومُ مَنْعَ الأَرْضِ نَبْتَتَهَا؟!
!
بَرَكَاتُهَا تَهْوِي إِلَى الْعَدَمِ!
Do you seek to deny the earth its growth?!
Its blessings plunging into oblivion!
أَتَرُومُ مَنْعَ النَّاسِ مِنْ أَمَلٍ
؟!
يَعْلُو كَلامُ اللهِ فِي الأُمَمِ؟!
Do you seek to bar people from a hope—
that God’s word might rise among the nations?!
؟!
أَتَرُومُ نَطْحَ الصَّخْرِ مُوهِنَهُ؟!
سَيَذِلُّ قَرْنُكَ حَاصِدَ النَّدَمِ
Do you seek to butt the rock and weaken it?!
Your horn will go on reaping regret.
أَتَرُومُ فِتْنَةَ أُمَّةٍ رَضِيَتْ
؟!
بِاللهِ رَبًّا بَارِئَ النَّسَمِ؟!
Do you seek to lead a nation into strife—a nation content
with God as Lord, Creator of all souls?!
أَتَبُثُّ فِتْنَةَ عَابِثٍ نَزِقٍ
؟!
تَمْحُو شَرِيعَةَ رَبِّنَا الْحَكَمِ؟!
Are you spreading the sedition of a reckless trifler,
to erase the law of our Lord, the Judge?!
؟!
أَتَرُومُ نُورَ اللهِ تُطْفِئُهُ؟!
اخْسَا نَصِيرَ الشَّرِّ لا تَشَمِ
Do you seek to extinguish the light of God?!
Begone, champion of evil—you shall not even catch its scent.
سَيَتِمُّ نُورُ اللهِ فَانْتَظِرَنْ
غَضَبًا يَثُورُ يُبِيدُ كَالْحِمَمِ
God’s light will be made complete—so wait
for wrath that erupts and destroys like lava.
Sol 5.6