قطع الزمان يمينه بيمينه
وفقا بأصبعه عيون عيونه
The days have severed their oath with their oaths,
And misled with their fingers, eyes upon eyes.
أغرى بأم المؤمنين صروفه
عمداً وجرعهم كؤس منونه
They have tempted the Mother of the Believers with their turns,
Deliberately, and made them drink the cup of their sorrows.
يادهر تدرى من نقلت إِلى الثرى
وقطعت بالحدثان حبل وتينه
O days, do you know whom you have transferred to the soil,
And severed with events, the rope and its twine?
أخرجت من برج الخلافة شمسها
وفجعت فيها الليث وسط عرينه
You have brought out from the tower of the Caliphate its sun,
And anguished therein the lion amidst its lair.
كانت له نعم القرين المرتضى
من ذا يهون عليه فقد قرينه
She was to him the best companion, Al-Murtada,
Who would make light of losing such a companion?
إلفين ما افترقا وكل منهما
مغرى بقرب أليفه وخدينه
The two were intimate, never separated, each of them
Tempted by the nearness of his beloved and cheeks.
فرقت بينهما فراقاً طعمه
مر المذاقة لا لقا من دونه
You separated them with a separation, its taste
Bitter as colocynth, no less than it.
يا حسرتاه لنازح عن حبه
تحت التراب موسداً ليمينه
Oh what sorrow for the companion moving away from his love,
Below the soil, resting his right side!
تركت نمارقها الرفيعة خلفها
ووسائد الفرش الوطي ولينه
She left behind her lofty curtains,
And the pillows of luxurious furnishings and softness.
واليوم تحت الترب أضحى شخصها
ملقى على رمل الصعيد وطينه
And today beneath the soil her figure lies
Cast upon the sands of the plain and its mud.
مدفونة بين الجنادل والثرى
في منزل نفسي فداء دفينه
Buried between the planks and the soil,
In a place - my soul is ransom for its buried one!
خطب يجل عن العزا ورزية
عقل الفتى فيها دليل جنونه
Eloquence is too majestic for condolences and bereavement,
The intellect of the young man in it is proof of his madness.
ياطول عمر الحزن فينا بعد من
قد كان ينفي الحرزن عن محزونه
O long live sorrow in us after one
Who used to dispel sorrow from the grieved!
مالي وللصبر الجميل وإن بي
حزن يقل الصبر عن تهوينه
What is it to me and beautiful patience, even if in me
There is a sorrow that lessens patience from consoling it?
قل للعذول يكف فضل لسانه
عني فإني لا أدين بدينه
Tell the critic to restrain the excess of his tongue
From me, for I am not indebted to his religion.
ما للخلي وللشجي يلومه
في حزنه وحنينه وأنينه
What is it to the wound and the ache that blames it
In its sorrow, yearning, and moaning?
كيف السلو وتحت أطباق الثرى
من قد علمت بلى الثرى بجبينه
How can there be solace while beneath the slabs of soil
Is one whom I know the soil recognizes through her forehead?
أم كيف يسلو المستهام وقلبه
في أسر مأسور الضريح رهينة
Or how can one whose heart is captive, imprisoned
In the tomb, find comfort?
يادرة كان المليك يصونها
يا عينه الحورا وحورا عينه
O pearl! The King used to protect her,
The apple of his eye and an houris' eye as well!
تالله يقضى بعض حقك من بكا
لو بالدماء جرت شؤن جفونه
By God, your right is not fulfilled by some
Weeping, unless blood flows from their eyelids!
ما أبصرت عيناي بعدك باقياً
إلا يلوح العذر فوق جبينه
My eyes have not seen anything lasting after you
Unless remorse appears upon its forehead.
حلف الفواد من التلسلى بعدكم
فحفاه محتاطاً لبرء يمينه
The heart has sworn since you left never to be consoled,
So it has been enveloped, protecting its oath.
أني لا نهى الدمع عن جريانه
إذ كان فيه راحة لحزينه
I do not forbid my tears from flowing
For in them is respite for the grieved one.
لم يدر قبرك ماحواه بل درا
بالأمر من أنهاره وعيونه
Your grave did not know what it contained, but it knew
The command from its rivers and springs.
فتحت إليه من الجنان مسالك
فالحور والولدان في مضمونه
Pathways to it from the Gardens have opened,
So houris and young boys are in its guarantee.
أعمالك الحسنى لديك فكم به
من فرض صالحها ومن مسنونه
Your good deeds are with you, so through them
How many religious obligations done and voluntary!
يامن يجل عن العزاء جلاله
أوامره بالصبر أو تحسينه
O You whose loftiness is beyond condolences,
His commands are with patience or excellence.
لاشيء يخفى عن ذكائك علمه
ظن اللبيب لديه عين يقينه
Nothing is hidden from the knowledge of Your wisdom,
The assumption of the sensible one in it is the eye of certainty.
أنت الغني بحلمه وبعلمه
بالدهر في حركاته وسكونه
You are Self-Sufficient in Your Forbearance and Knowledge,
Of days in their movements and stillness.
وإذا أمرؤ عزاك كان كاكمه
قد رام يهدى مبصراً بعيونه
And when one consoles You, it is as though he
Wants to guide, seeing with his eyes.
أبقاك ربي للأنام فإن في
طول البقاء لك البقاء لدينه
May my Lord sustain you for the people, for in
The length of survival is survival for His religion.
