وَأُقسِمُ أَن لَولا قُرَيشٌ وَما مَضى
إِلَيها وَكانَ اللَهُ بِالحُكمِ أَعلَما
And I swear: were it not for Quraysh and what has passed
to them—and God knew best in judgment—
لَكانَ لَنا مَن يَلبَسُ اللَيلَ مِنهُمُ
وَضَوءُ النَهارِ مِن فَصيحٍ وَأَعجَما
ours would be all among them who wear the night
and the light of day, eloquent and foreign-tongued alike.
وَمِنّا الَّذي أَحيا الوَئيدَ وَلَم يَزَل
أَبِيّاً عَلى الأَعداءِ أَن يَتَهَضَّما
And among us is he who saved the child from burial alive, and never ceased
to stand defiant against his enemies, refusing to be wronged.
وَجارٍ مَنَعناهُ وَلَولا حِبالُنا
لَأَصبَحَ شِلوَ الحَربِ غِبّاً مُقَسَّما
And many a neighbor we protected—were it not for our ropes,
he would, in war's wake, have become a corpse cut to pieces.
رَفَعنا لَهُ حَتّى جَرى النَجمُ دونَهُ
وَحَلَّ عَلى رُكنِ المَجَرَّةِ سُلَّما
We raised for him—until the star coursed beneath it—
a ladder that came to rest on a pillar of the Milky Way.
Sol 6.1