لا أَلَمَّتْ بِجِسْمِكَ الآلاَمُ
يَا ضِياءً والعَالَمونَ ظَلاَمُ
No pain has touched your body,
O light, while the world is darkness.
بِي وَحْدِي ما تَشْتَكيهِ ومَصْرُو
فٌ إليَّ الغَداةَ عَنكَ السَّقَامُ
With me alone do not complain,
and illness will flee from you in the morning.
أنَا أَوْلَى بحَملِهِ عَنْكَ فالسَّيْ
يدُ يُغنِي بالكَلِّ عَنْهُ الغُلامُ
It is more appropriate that I bear it from you,
For the master relieves the boy.
لَكَ طُولُ البَقَاءِ فابْقَ وأُفْدِيْ
كَ أنَا يا ابْنَ سَالمٍ والأنَامُ
You have a long life, so remain,
and I will ransom you, O son of Salam.
ما ألَذَّ الحِمَامَ ما كَانَ مَدْفُو
عاً إِلَينَا عَنكَ الغداةَ الحِمَامِ
How sweet was the pigeon sent
as a gift to us from you in the morning!
ما لِعَمْرِي شَكَوْتُ بَلْ شَكَتِ الأيْ
يامُ والمُسْلِمونَ والإسْلامُ
By my life! I have not complained,
but the days complained, and the Muslims, and Islam.
مَرَضٌ لَمْ يكنْ ليُحدِثهُ شُرْ
بٌ يُنافِي مزَاجُهُ وطَعَامُ
An illness that no drink could cause
whose nature drinking would oppose.
إنَّمَا أَحْدَثَتْهُ هِمَّةُ نَفسٍ
لا تَنَاهى لِغَايةٍ واعْتزَامُ
Rather, a soul's ambition brought it on,
which knows no bound or resolve.
أيُّ جِسمٍ يَقْوى علَى حَملِ نَفْسٍ
يَذْبُلٌ دُونَ همِّها وشِمَامُ
What body can bear carrying a soul
that withers from its ambitions and values?
وإذَا كَانتْ النُّفُوسُ كِبَاراً
تَعِبَتْ في مُرَادِهَا الأجسَامُ
And when souls are great,
the bodies are wearied by their wants.
وعَزيزٌ أَنَّا نَعُودُكَ بالكُتْ
بِ ولا زَوْرَةٌ ولا إِلمامُ
And it is rare that we can heal you
with books, neither false cures nor amulets.
والذي بَينَنا من البُعْدِ يسْتدْ
نِيهِ زَحْفاً من لا لَهُ أقْدَامُ
What lies between us of distance
demands a crawling even from the legless.
لَيسَ إلاّ أنَّ العَزيزَ منَ النَّا
سِ لَديكُمْ أَعزُّ مِنهُ الحُطَامُ
It is just that the dear one among the people
is dearer to you than rubble.
تَبَّ للدَّهرِ لَيسَ يُرْضيهِ حَتَّى
تَتسَاوَى كِرَامُهُ واللِّئَامُ
Curse upon the fate that is not pleased
until its nobility equals the vile!
قَلَّ أن تُمدَحَ الكِرَامُ وتَمضِي
حِقْبَةٌ ثمَّ لا تَذُمُّ الكِرَامُ
Seldom are the noble praised and an era passes
without dispraise of the noble.
غَيرَ بِدْعٍ فَما رأَينَا كَريماً
لَمْ تُغيّرْ أخْلاقَهُ الأيَّامُ
Other than innovation, we have not seen
a noble one whose traits time altered.
وعلَى ذَا وذَا فَزارَاكَ أنَّى
كُنْتَ عَنَّا تحيَّةٌ وسَلاَمُ
As for so-and-so, they visited you.
Greetings and peace be upon you wherever you are from us.
