أَغَداً يَشِتُّ المَجدُ وَهوَ جَميعُ
وَتُرَدُّ دارُ الحَمدِ وَهيَ بَقيعُ
Will glory scatter tomorrow, though now united,
Tomorrow glory will yearn as it is complete,
and the abode of praise be reduced to open ground,
And the abode of praise will return as it is a garden.
بِمَسيرِ إِبراهيمَ يَحمِلُ جودَهُ
جودُ الفُراتِ فَرائِعٌ وَمَروعُ
with Ibrahim's departure, his bounty borne
With the journey of Abraham, he carries his generosity,
by the Euphrates' bounty, both awing and overawed?
The generosity of the Euphrates, splendid and fearful.
مُتَوَجِّهاً تُحدى بِهِ بَصرِيَّةٌ
خُشنُ الأَزِمَّةِ ما لَهُنَّ نُسوعُ
Setting forth, he is borne by Basran vessels urged onward with song,
Heading with it to the visionary defiance,
rough-reined, with no girth-straps upon them.
The rough times, they have no fatigue for them.
هوجٌ إِذا اِتَّصَلَت بِأَسبابِ السُرى
قَطَعَ التَنائِفَ سَيرُها المَرفوعُ
Headlong, when they take to the ways of night travel,
Passion, when the causes of bliss are connected,
their quickened pace crosses the trackless wastes.
Its elevated travel cuts short the disputes.
لا شَهرَ أَعدى مِن رَبيعٍ إِنَّهُ
سَيَبينُ عَنّا بِالرَبيعِ رَبيعُ
No month is more hostile than Rabiʿ; indeed,
No month is more hostile than spring, it
a spring will depart from us in Rabiʿ.
Will show for us the spring after the spring.
سَأُقيمُ بَعدَكَ عِندَ غَيرَكِ عالِماً
عِلمَ الحَقيقَةِ أَنَّني سَأَضيعُ
After you, I shall stay with someone else, knowing
After you I will stay with someone else knowing,
with utter certainty that I shall be neglected.
The knowledge of reality, that I will be lost.
وَصَنائِعٌ لَكَ سَوفَ تَترُكُها النَوى
وَكَأَنَّما هِيَ أَرسُمٌ وَرُبوعُ
And separation will leave your benefactions
And works for you that dreams will leave,
as though they were camp traces and dwelling sites.
As if they are drawings and meadows.
وَذَكَرتَ واجِبَ حُرمَتي فَحَفِظتَها
فَلَئِن نَسيتُكَ إِنَّني لَمُضيعُ
You remembered the respect due to me and upheld it;
And you recalled the sanctity of my duty so you protected it
so if I forget you, I am surely neglectful.
So if I forget you, I am indeed lost.
سَأُوَدِّعُ الإِحسانَ بَعدَكَ وَاللُهى
إِذ حانَ مِنكَ البَينُ وَالتَوديعُ
After you, I shall bid farewell to kindness and lavish gifts,
I will bid farewell to kindness after you, by God,
now that parting from you and farewell have come.
When separation from you arrived and farewell.
وَسَأَستَقِلُّ لَكَ الدُموعَ صَبابَةً
وَلَوَ انَّ دِجلَةَ لي عَلَيكَ دُموعُ
In longing, I shall deem my tears for you too few,
And I will make the tears flow for you abundantly,
even if the Tigris were my tears for you.
If only I had for you tears like the Tigris.
وَمِنَ البَديعِ أَنِ اِنتَأَيتَ وَلَم يَرُح
جَزَعي عَلى الأَحشاءِ وَهوَ بَديعُ
And it is strange that you have gone afar, yet there still lingers
Of wonders is that you came and my heart did not
my anguish upon my inward parts, still fresh.
Grieve for the beloved and that is wonderful.
وَسَيَنزِعُ العُشّاقُ عَن أَحبابِهِم
جَلَداً وَما لي عَن نَداكَ نُزوعُ
And lovers will turn away from their beloveds
The lovers will tear their skin off for their loved ones,
with fortitude, but I cannot turn away from your bounty.
While I have no will to part from you.
فَإِذا رَحَلتَ رَحَلتُ عَن دارٍ إِذا
بُذِلَ السَماحُ فَجارُها مَمنوعُ
So when you depart, I shall depart from a house where, when
So when you leave, I will leave a house where
generosity is bestowed, its neighbor is denied,
If generosity is shown, its people are prevented.
وَقَطيعَةِ الحَسَنِ بنِ سَهلٍ إِنَّها
تَغدو وَوَصلي دونَها مَقطوعُ
and from al-Hasan ibn Sahl's estate; indeed, it
The estrangement of Al-Hasan ibn Sahl, it
greets the morning with my access to it cut off.
Comes and goes while after it is severed.
بَل لَيتَ شِعري هَل تَراني قائِلاً
هَل لِلَّيالي الصالِحاتِ رُجوعُ
Rather, would that I knew: will you see me saying,
Rather, I wonder, will I say:
“Will the good nights return?”
Do the good nights have a return?
وَتَذَكُّريكَ عَلى البِعادِ وَبَينَنا
بَرُّ العِراقِ وَبَحرُها المَشروعُ
By my remembrance of you despite the distance, while between us lie
And remembering you from afar, between us
Iraq's land and its navigable sea,
Is the land of Iraq and its sailed sea.
يَفديكَ قَومٌ لَيسَ يوجَدُ مِنهُمُ
في المَجدِ مَرئِيٌّ وَلا مَسموعُ
may a people ransom you, among whom none is found
A people ransom you that cannot be found among them
seen or heard of in glory.
Visible nor heard glory.
خُدِعوا عَنِ الشَرَفِ المُقيمِ تَظَنِّياً
مِنهُم بِأَنَّ الواهِبَ المَخدوعُ
They were cheated out of lasting honor by a supposition
They are deceived from lasting honor, assuming
of theirs: that the giver is the one deceived.
From them that the giver is the deceived one.
باتَت خَلائِقُهُم عَلى أَموالِهِم
وَكَأَنَّهُنَّ جَواشِنٌ وَدُروعُ
Their dispositions kept watch over their wealth through the night,
Their natures have spent the night on their money
as though they were breastplates and coats of mail.
As if they are armors and shields.
قَنِعوا بِمَيسورِ الفَعالِ وَأوهِموا
أَنَّ المَكارِمَ عِفَّةٌ وَقُنوعُ
They were content with easy deeds and were led to believe
They sufficed with easily obtained deeds and pretended
that noble virtues are self-restraint and contentment.
That virtues are chastity and contentment.
كَلّا وَكُلُّ مُقَصِّرٍ مُتَجَهوِرٍ
عِندَ الحَطيمِ طَوافُهُ أُسبوعُ
No! Every loud-voiced man who falls short
No! And every lazy vulgar one
makes his seven circuits at the Hatim.
His circumambulating the Shrine is a week.
لا يَبلُغُ العَلياءَ غَيرُ مُتَيَّمٍ
بِبُلوغِها يَعصي لَها وَيُطيعُ
None reaches the heights save one enamored
None reaches the most high except the hopeful one,
of attaining them, who disobeys and obeys for their sake.
Who obeys and disobeys it in reaching it.
يَحكيكَ في الشَرَفِ الَّذي حَلَّيتَهُ
بِالمَجدِ عِلماً أَنَّهُ سَيَشيعُ
He emulates you in the honor you adorned
It tells you of the honor you have adorned
with glory, knowing that it will spread abroad.
Yourself with the glory, knowing it will spread.
خُلُقٌ أَتَيتَ بِفَضلِهِ وَسَنائِهِ
طَبعاً فَجاءَ كَأَنَّهُ مَصنوعُ
A character whose excellence and splendor you brought forth
A mannerism you have come with, in its merit and craft,
by nature, and it emerged as though crafted.
Naturally, so it came as if it is manufactured.
وَحَديثُ مَجدٍ عَنكَ أَفرَطَ حُسنُهُ
حَتّى ظَنَنّا أَنَّهُ مَوضوعُ
And a tale of your glory was so surpassingly beautiful
And a conversation of glory about you, its beauty went to excess
that we thought it was fabricated.
That we thought it was fabricated.
Sol 6.1