شغَلَ المُحبَّ عن الرسو

مِ وإن غدتْ مثلَ الوُشومِ

The lover was preoccupied with the messenger

Even if she became like tattoos

شكوى الظُّلامة مِن ظلو

مٍ في حكومتها غَشومِ

The darkness complained of gloominess in its government

So it carried out its name and became like Sodom

ظلمتْ لتحقيقِ اسمها

فغدتْ تُبرُّ على سَدومِ

Is there a just ruler whose rule is fair to me instead of the oppressors?

Its exterior became to me, adorned with jewelry like stars

هلْ حاكمٌ عدلُ الحكو

مةِ مُنْصِفٌ لي من ظلوم

While its interior became to me, burdened with worries like opponents

How different are the two states, with the continual separations

باتتْ لظاهرها وسا

وسُ من حُليٍّ كالنجوم

Like the difference between the worry of jewelry and the worry of sorrows

I gave it water when it rose before me at dawn

ولباطني منها وسا

وسُ من هُموم كالخصوم

From a wine skin made of interwoven palm leaves

As if the shininess of its face at dawn

شتّانَ بينَ الحالتَيْ

نِ من المُواصل الصَّرومِ

Was a sun rising from clouds

It stood before your heart in a stance

كمْ بين وَسواسِ الحُليْ

يِ وبين وَسْواسِ الهموم

That blows the breeze for those with sweetness

But it spoke to you cryptically without conventions

سقْياً لها إذ طالعتْ

كَ ضُحىً من الخِدرِ الكَتُوم

It gave your soul its spirit as a pounding inspiration beyond bodies

And you knew it as conjecture though you have so much knowledge in guesses

وكأنَّ غُرَّةَ وجْهِها

شمسٌ تُطالِع من غُيومِ

Do not blame those who walked burdened with blame

I complain to you of thirst

وقفتْ لقلبِكَ مَوْقفاً

يُهدي الصِّبا لذوي الحلوم

From little water, flowing delicately

And of perfume's gossip about me and ornament's talk

واستعْجَمتْ لكنَّها

كَتَبتْ إليك بلا رُسوم

If not for them I would have obeyed in you the dispute of a passionate she-camel

I said, make me hear it and leave them

أهدتْ لروحك روْحها

وحياً يدِق عن الجسوم

They are not destined in pregnancies

What are empty perfume and ornament

وعَلِمْتَهُ رجماً وكم

لك من عُلوم في رُجوم

Compared to a blow from one firm and determined?

If your heart is from passion like my heart, hurt and wounded

إن لا تَلُمْ مَنْ راحَ في

كَ مُحَمَّلاً عبءَ الملوم

Then shun those who slander you

For leaving them is no shame

أشكو إليكَ ظَماءةً

مِنْ مُقلةٍ ريَّا سَجوم

Or have you not seen those who possess splendor in passion and those with generality?

They shun ignorance from those they loved and those with sweetness

ووِشايةَ العِطْرِ النَّمو

مِ عليَّ والحَلْيِ النَّموم

So she smiled, knowing your truthfulness

And you became immersed in gloom

لولاهما لأطعتُ في

كَ نزاعَ صاديةٍ حؤوم

Leave that to a full moon that shone

Without blemishes on it

قلتُ اصدفي ودعيهما

ليسا بحتم في الحُتوم

Its youth is over and below it

Are veils of happiness with blossoms

ما الحَلْيُ والعِطرُ الفصي

حُ بضربة من ذي لُزوم

The light conversations and buried wishes then took control

Then it became independent, so it was

إنْ كانَ قلبُكِ من هوا

هُ كقلبيَ الدامي الكلوم

A light for the plains and the mountains

So the darkness circulated with euphoria around it

فتبرَّئي من واشيَيْ

كِ فليس تركُهما بلوم

And the clouds of gloom dispersed

The prince has arrived, so welcome

أو ما رأيتِ ذوِي الخصا

ئصِ في الهوى وذوِي العمومِ

Those arriving and the arrivals

A king ruling over the wilderness and wastelands

يتبرأون من الجُلو

د لمنْ هَوُوْا ومن اللحومِ

With wisdom in his steps

Moderation outweighs impulsiveness

فتبسمت علماً بصد

قك وانقطعْتَ إلى الوُجوم

He found safety in dignity and grandeur in loftiness

So you see him reveal his face

دع ذا لِبدْرٍ قد أضا

ءَ فما عليه من قُتوم

Under the swords and poison

He is not tempted by the wine of fun, no, nor the wine of vines

وافى سناهُ ودونهُ

حجبُ السرورِ مع الجُروم

The brother of prosperity, between entertainment and a flask

Of those who visit the affectionate bow, ready to shoot

فتحكَّمَتْ خُففُ المطا

مِعِ والأمانيِّ الجُثوم

The strings of the bow are enough for him

From the exemplary principles and doctrines

ثم استقلَّ فكانَ نو

راً للسُّهولِ وللحُزوم

His hands won in the meeting an arrow, unleashed and lethal

His weapons do not cease to be

فتجوَّبتْ بهمُ الدُّجَى

وتكشَّفتْ غُمَمُ الغُموم

Between defeats and victories

He raids the enemy in the darkness of the gloomy night

قدِمَ الأميرُ فمرحباً

بالقادمينَ وبالقُدوم

And the day of Rome

So the night is a helper and the day for him

مَلِكٌ غدا فوقَ البريْ

يةِ والأخشَّةُ في الخطوم

In the intended matter

The two sons of time, they, they

كالوالد البرِّ الرؤو

فِ بنا وكالأُمِّ الرؤوم

Conquered the forts with attack

He throws the enemy into panic

والخسْفُ دونَ قبوله

طرفاً من الخَسْفِ المشوم

With horrors that come from the lances

Like the wind that destroyed your dreams

ليثُ اللُّيوثِ إذا الحرو

بُ تسعَّرتْ قرْمُ القُروم

In its gloomy nights

O time that flows with your enmity like a rough sea

غيثُ الأنام إذا الغُيو

ثُ بخلن في السَّنة الأزوم

A sea that roars over generosity and surges over sorrows

One of Hashim in its nostrils

ما في قِراه لطارقٍ

ولمستميح من عُتوم

So go back with a cleft nose

The best of high branches, with it the best of roots thrived

خَفَّتْ خُطاهُ إلى الوَغَى

والحلمُ أرجحُ مِنْ يسوم

Sacrifice your hands for his money however you wish, you harmful neighbor

He did not consider glory a commodity, nor did he sell generosity for blame

وجد السلامةَ في الكرا

هة والفخامَةَ في السهوم

His blows are above wishes and his notions above knowledge

His anger is the poison of the wilderness and his pleasure the armor against poisons

فتراهُ يُبْرزُ وجهَهُ

تحت السُّيوفِ وللسَّمومِ

The delegations of his gift returned

As heaps on the resting places of the heap

لم تُلْهِه خَمرُ المرا

شفِ لا ولا خَمْرُ الكروم

Complaining of the burdens of wealth

And the burdens of captivity

وأخو الرفاهةِ بين مُس

معةٍ وإبريقٍ رذوم

None is like him in depriving like a king

My right to worry is due to the like of me

ممَّن يُغادِي المِزْهَر ال

حنّانَ للقوْس الزَّجوم

Spare him from bestowing distraction

And seeking him insistently in the environs

تكفيهِ أوتارُ القِسي

يِ من المثالث والبُموم

His promises do not change

And musk never loses its fragrance

ظفرت يداهُ في اللقا

ء بسهم فلّاجٍ سَهُوم

They despair yet he addresses without

Being dispirited by harm and blame

ما إنْ تزال عِداتُه

بينَ الهَزائم والهُزوم

He managed people with a hand of playfulness and a hand of force

So a hand like the surface of his sword

يغزو العدا في ليل زَنْ

ج حالك ونهارِ روم

And a hand like its sharp edge

Thus, the people of good fortune go

فاللَّيلُ عَوْنٌ والنها

رُ له على الأمر المَروم

From mischief to righteousness

While the people of misery go

وابنا الزمان هما هما

غلبا المعاقلَ بالهُجوم

From righteousness to mischief

O owner of exclusive merit and owner of general generosity

يرمي العِدا بجوائح

تأتي الفروعَ من الأُروم

O supporter of the faith who drove away the beasts from the meats

And revived the banners of guidance after the disappeared vestiges and tracks

كالريح أهلكتِ الهوا

لكَ في لياليها الحُسوم

How many places did you stand that had no pillars before you?

Take them like the sands of the windswept plains, and over the sands of the dunes

يا دهرُ جارى من عِدا

تك ساحلا بحرٍ طَمومِ

Printed and manufactured

Strutting in the dense field

بحرٌ يجِمّ على العطا

ء ويستغيضُ على الجُموم

من هاشم في أنفِها

فارجعْ بأنفٍ ذي هُشوم

خيرُ الفُروع الباسقا

تِ سما به خيرُ الجذوم

تُضْحي يداهُ لمالهِ

ما شئتَ من جارٍ هضوم

لم يَحْسبِ المجد الشرا

ء ولم يَبعْ كرماً بلوم

نفحاتُهُ فوقَ المُنى

وظنونُهُ فوقَ العُلومِ

سمُّ البريّةِ سُخْطُهُ

ورضاهُ دِرياقُ السُّموم

رجعتْ حقائبُ وَفْدِهِ

كُوماً على أمطاءِ كوم

يشكونَ أثقالَ الغِنَى

طَوْراً وأثقالَ السجوم

ما مثلهُ عن بَخْس مث

لِكَ حَقَّ مِثْلِي بالنَّؤومِ

عافِيه من بَذْلِ اللُّهَى

والمُرْتجِيه على التُّخوم

لا تستحيلُ عهودُه

والمِسكُ معدومُ الحُموم

يأسُو ويَكْلِمُ غيرَ مَذْ

مومِ الإساءةِ والكُلوم

ساسَ الورى بيد وهُو

بٍ للُّهَى ويدٍ ضموم

فيدٌ كصفحةِ سَيْفِه

ويدٌ كشفرتِهِ الحذوم

فذَوُو السعادةِ ذاهبو

نَ عن القَصومِ إلى العَصوم

وذوو الشقاوة ذاهبو

ن عن العصوم إلى القصوم

يا صاحبَ الفضلِ الخصو

صِ وصاحبَ البذلِ العُموم

يا ناصرَ الدينِ الذي

ذاد السباعَ عن اللُّحوم

وأجدَّ أعلامَ الهُدَى

بعد الخُلوقةِ والطُّسوم

كم مِنْ مَقامٍ قُمْتَهُ

ما كان قبلكَ بالمَقُومِ

خذها كأوْشية الرِّيا

ضِ وفوق أوْشيةِ الرُّقوم

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