قامَت بِلادُكَ لي مَقامَ بِلادي
وَأَرى تِلادَكَ باتَ دونَ تِلادي
Your land has taken the place of my homeland for me.
Your country has become my country
And I see your ancestral wealth now nearer than my own.
And I see your homeland as less than my homeland
حَتّى كَأَنِّيَ لَم أُرِم وَطَني وَلَم
تَشمَت بِزائِلِ نِعمَتي حُسّادي
So that it is as though I never left my homeland, nor
As if I had not abandoned my own country or
Did my enviers gloat over the loss of my prosperity.
My enviers rejoiced at the loss of my fortune
وَلَقَد وَعَدتَ وَفي حَياتي مانِعٌ
لي مِن تَنَجُّزِ ذَلِكَ الميعادِ
And you have indeed promised, yet in my life there is a hindrance
And you had promised me in my lifetime what prevents
To my securing the fulfillment of that promise.
Me from fulfilling that promise
وَيُضاعِفُ الوَعدَ الَّذي أَكَّدتَهُ
أَنَّ الَّذي أَعطَيتَ جِدُّ مُعادِ
And the promise you confirmed is redoubled
And you redouble the promise you have confirmed
By the fact that the one you gave to is a bitter enemy.
That the one who gave is truly promising
أَتُرى الشَفيعُ وَقَد أَمَرتَ بِحاجَتي
يَرجو الوُصولَ بِها إِلى إِحمادي
Do you think the intercessor, though you have already ordered my need met,
Does the intercessor, whom you ordered to fulfill my need
Hopes thereby to win my gratitude?
Hope to attain it and bring it to my satisfaction?
وَإِذا العَليلُ أَبَلَّ مِمّا يَشتَكي
لَم تُرجَ فيهِ مَثوبَةُ العُوّادِ
And when the sick man has recovered from what ails him,
And when the sick one complains of that which pains him
No reward is expected for those who visit him.
The reward of visitors does not cure him
Sol 6.1