إِلَيكَ حَمَلتَ الأَمرَ ثُمَّ جَمَعتَهُ

إِلَيكَ وَأَشلاءَ الطَريدِ المَشَرَّدِ

To you I entrusted the matter, then brought it together

To you and the disjointed parts of the scattered caravan

وَموضِعِ خِمسٍ خَفقَةً كُنتَ سادِساً

لَهُنَّ وَقَد حانَ الغُدُوُّ لِمُغتَدي

And where five throbbed you were the sixth

For them, and the time for raiding had come

أُنيخَت إِذا اِنشَقَّ العَمودُ كَأَنَّما

بَنائِقُهُ مِن طَيلَسانٍ وَمُجسِدِ

It collapsed when the pillar cracked as though

Its platforms were of poplar wood and plaster

وَلَم يَتَوَسَّد غَيرَ أَلواحِ ساعِدٍ

وَحَيثُ اِنثَنَت مِن بانَتي رُكبَةُ اليَدِ

And leaned on nothing but the palms of arms

And where the wrist’s kneecap bent from my side

حَلَفتُ بِرَبِّ الراقِصاتِ إِلى مِنىً

خِفافاً وَأَعناقِ الهَدِيِّ المُقَلَّدِ

I swore by the Lord of the dancing maidens to Mina

On nimble feet and the necks of the haltered sacrifice

لَقَد ظَلَمَت أَيديكُمُ غَيرَ ظالِمٍ

وَلا لِهَوانٍ في القُيودِ مُقَوَّدِ

Indeed your hands have wronged, not being wrongdoers’

Nor for abasement in shackles made to plod

وَإِنّي وَإِيّاكُم وَمَن في حِبالِكُم

كَمَن حَبلُهُ في رَأسِ نيقٍ مُعَرِّدِ

And I and you and those in your ropes

Are like one whose rope is on the head of a restless camel

إِذا ذَكَرَتهُ العَينُ يَوماً تَحَدَّرَت

عَلى الخَدِّ أَمثالَ الجُمانِ المُفَرَّدِ

Whenever the eye remembers him one day, tears flowed

Down the cheek like scattered pearls

أَجِدّوا عَلى سَيرِ النَهارِ وَلَيلِهِ

فَلَن تُدرِكوا حاجاتِكُم بِالتَفَرُّدِ

Be firm throughout the course of day and night

For you will not attain your wants by being solitary