أَتَزورُ أُمَّ مُحَمَّدٍ أَم تَهجُرُ
أَم عادَ قَلبَكَ بَعضُ ما تَتَذَكَّرُ
Do you visit Umm Muhammad, or forsake her?
Do you visit the mother of Muhammad or do you shun her?
Or has some of what you remember returned to your heart?
Or has your heart regained some of what you remember?
إِنَّ الفَوادِرَ لَو سَمِعنَ كَلامَها
ظَلَّت وُعولُ عَمايَتَينِ تَحَدَّرُ
Indeed, if the great, aged ibex heard her words,
If the virtuous were to hear her words
The ibex of ʿAmayatayn would keep descending.
The wailings of two blind women would flow.
لا تَنسَ حِلمَكَ إِنَّ مالَكَ مَعهُمُ
قَدَرٌ وَلَستَ بِسابِقٍ ما يُقدَرُ
Do not forget your forbearance: what you have with them
Do not forget your forbearance, for with them
Is destined, and you cannot outstrip what is decreed.
Is your destiny, and you are not ahead of what is destined.
سَرَتِ الهُمومُ مَعَ النُجومِ فَكَلَّفَت
حاجاً يُكَلَّفُهُ السَمامُ الضُمَّرُ
Cares travelled by night with the stars, imposing
Cares traveled with the stars and tasked
Tasks laid upon the fleet, lean she-camels.
A pilgrim tasked by persistent insomnia.
هُنَّ الغِياثُ إِذا تَهَوَّلَتِ السُرى
وَإِذا تَوَقَّدَ في النِجادِ الحَزوَرُ
They are the rescue when night travel grows terrifying,
They are the succor when journeys become difficult
And when the mighty lion blazes in the uplands.
And when sorrow blazes in the bosom.
أَجهَضنَ مُعجَلَةً لِسِتَّةِ أَشهُرٍ
مِثلَ الفِراخِ جُلودُهُنَّ تَمَوَّرُ
They cast their young prematurely at six months,
They miscarried hastily at six months
Like chicks, their skins quivering.
Their skins peeling off like those of chicks.
قالَ البَعيثُ أَنا اِبنُ بَيبَةَ دَعوَةً
كَذَبَ البَعيثُ وَأَنفُهُ يَتَقَشَّرُ
Al-Baʿith claimed, 'I am Baybah's son.'
Al-Ba'ith said, "I am the son of Baybah of the Da'wah tribe."
Al-Baʿith lied, and his nose is peeling.
Al-Ba'ith lied, and his nose was flaking.
أَنتَ البَعيثُ تَبينُ فيهِ عُبودَةٌ
وَأَبوكَ عَبدُ بَني زُراةَ بَغثَرُ
You are al-Baʿith, in whom servitude plainly shows,
You are Al-Ba'ith, in whom servitude is evident,
And your father is a slave of Banu Zurah—a coarse fool.
And your father is a slave of the Zuraah tribe of Baghthar.
Sol 6.1