جائِرٌ في الحُكمِ لَو شاءَ قَصَد
أَخَذَ النَومَ وَأَعطانِيَ السُهُد
Unjust in judgment—had he wished, he would have been fair.
Unjust in judgment, though able to be fair,
He took sleep for himself and gave me sleeplessness.
He took my sleep and granted me wakefulness.
غابَ عَمّا بِتُّ أَلقى في الهَوى
وَهُوَ النازِحُ عَطفاً لَو شَهِد
He is absent from what I endure through the night in love,
He was absent from the love in which I pine,
And even were he present, he would be distant in sympathy.
And he was the visitor, had he but attended.
وَبِنَفسي وَالأَمانِيَ ضَلَّةٌ
سَيِّدٌ يَصدِفُ عَنّي وَيَصُدّ
And with my life I would ransom—though hopes are folly—
My soul and my desires are both astray.
A lord who turns away from me and shuns me.
A lord turns from me, blocks me off.
حالَ عَن بَعضِ الَّذي أَعهَدُهُ
وَأَراني لَم أَحُل عَمّا عَهِد
He has changed from some of what I knew of him,
He's changed from some of what I was wont to find in him
Yet I see I have not changed from what he knew of me.
And makes me other than I was accustomed to.
كَيفَ يَخفى الحُبُّ مِنّا بَعدَما
قامَ واشٍ بِهَوانا وَقَعَد
How can our love remain hidden, after
How can love stay hidden after what arose -
A talebearer rose and sat spreading word of our love?
A slanderer stood up, sat down to blame us!
لَستُ أَنسى لَيلَتي مِنهُ وَقَد
أَنجَزَت عَينا بَخيلٍ ما وَعَد
I cannot forget my night with him, when
I'll not forget my night with him, when
A miser's two eyes fulfilled what he had promised.
The eyes of a miserly one fulfilled what they had promised.
عَلِقَت كَفٌّ بِكَفٍّ بَينَنا
وَاِعتَنَقنا فَاِلتَقى خَدٌّ وَخَدّ
Between us, hand clasped hand,
Hand pressed on hand between us
And we embraced, so cheek met cheek.
And we embraced, cheek met cheek.
وَتَشاكَينا مِنَ الحُبِّ جَوى
مَلا الأَحشاءَ ناراً تَتَّقِدّ
And we complained to each other of love's anguish,
We complained of love - its ardour
That filled our entrails with blazing fire.
Filled our insides with a kindled fire.
أَيُّها الجازِعُ أَجوازَ الفَلا
يَطلُبُ الجَدوى مِنَ القَومِ الجُمُد
O you who cross the inner reaches of the desert,
O fleer, who mocks the horseman
Seeking bounty from stony-hearted men,
Seeking advantage from the unyielding people!
خَلِّ عَنكَ الناسَ لاتُغرَر بِهِم
وَاِعتَمِد بَحرَ الإِمامِ المُعتَمِد
Leave people aside; do not be deceived by them,
Leave people be! Be not deluded by them!
And rely on the ocean of Imam al-Mu'tamid.
Rely on the deep sea of the empowered Imam.
مَلِكٌ يَكفيكَ مِنهُ أَنَّهُ
وَجَدَ الدُنيا فَأَعطى ماوَجَد
A king—it is enough for you to know that he
A king who suffices you - his finding
Found the world and gave away what he found.
The world and giving what he found.
لَو مِنَ الغَيثِ الَّذي تَجري بِهِ
راحَتاهُ مِن عَطاءٍ لَنَفِد
Were rain the source of what flows from
Were his open-handedness to flow
His two palms as gifts, the rain would run dry.
As rain, his liberality would never be exhausted.
هِمَّةٌ نَعرِفُها مِن جَعفَرٍ
وَخِلالُ فيهِ يَكثُرنَ العَدَد
A lofty resolve we recognize in Ja'far,
It's a resolve we recognize in Ja'far -
And virtues in him too many to count.
And its details in him are multitudinous.
أَشرَقَت أَيّامُنا في مُلكِهِ
وَاِزدَهَت حُسناً لَيالينا الجُدُد
Our days have shone bright under his reign,
Our days have dawned during his reign,
And our new nights have grown splendid with beauty.
And our new nights gained beauty.
Sol 6.1