الوَيلُ إِن كانَ الفراقُ دَنا
وَصَلَّيتُ مِنهُ بِحَرِّ ما كَمَنا
Woe, if parting has drawn near,
and I was scorched by the heat of what lay concealed within it.
كُنَّا وَنَحنُ مَعاً تَسكُنُه
فَالآنَ يَنفُرُ أَن أَخى شَطَنا
We were together, and you dwelt in it;
but now it recoils because my brother has gone far from us.
أَستَحفظُ اللَّهَ السَّميعَ لَهُ
إِمَّا أَقامَ بِنا وَإِن ظَعَنا
I ask God, the All-Hearing, to watch over him,
whether he stays with us or journeys away.
لكِنَّني مَيتٌ لَئِن شَحَطَت
عَنّي نَواهُ وَلَم يَكُن قُمنا
Yet I shall die if there grows distant
from me his dwelling, though we have not even set out.
يا مَن بَراني حُسنُ صورَته
هَل كانَ قَبلَك آخر حسنا
O you whose beauty of form has worn me thin,
was there before you ever another so fair?
ما إِن سَمِعتُ بِهِ فَأَذكُرُهُ
وَلَقَد عُنيتُ بِعِلمِهِ زَمَنا
Never did I hear of him, that I might mention him,
though indeed for a time I took pains to learn of him.
Sol 5.6