صَديقٌ لَيسَ يَنفَعُ يَومَ بُؤسِ
قَريبٌ مِن عَدوٍّ في القِياسِ
A friend who is no help on a day of distress
is, by that measure, close to an enemy.
وَما يَبقى الصَديقُ بِكلِّ عَصرٍ
وَلا الإِخوانُ إِلّا لِلتَآسي
No friend endures through every age,
nor brothers, save to share one another’s sorrows.
عَمَرتُ الدَهرَ مُلتَمِساً بِجُهدي
أَخا ثِقَةٍ فَأَلهاني اِلتِماسي
I spent my lifetime seeking with all my might
a brother I could trust—my search consumed me.
تَنَكَّرَتِ البِلادُ وَمَن عَلَيها
كَأَنَّ أُناسَها لَيسوا بِناسي
The lands and all who dwell upon them have grown strange,
as though their people were no people at all.
Sol 5.6