ألا يا قومُ قد برحَ الخفاءُ
وبان الصبرُ منّي والعزاءُ
Hark, my people: concealment has fallen away,
and patience and consolation have deserted me.
تعجبَ صاحبي لضياع مثلي
وليس لداء محرومٍ دواء
My companion marvels that one like me should go to waste,
for the affliction of a man deprived of favor has no cure.
جفاني سيدٌ قد كان بَرّاً
ولم أذنب فما هذا الجفاءُ
My lord has shunned me, though once he treated me kindly;
I have committed no offense—why, then, this estrangement?
حللت بداره وعلمتُ أنّي
بدارٍ لا يخيبُ بها الرجاءُ
I took up residence at his court, knowing that I
was in a court where hope is never disappointed.
فلمّا شاب رأسي في ذراهُ
حجبتُ لعقبِ ما بعدَ اللقاءُ
But when my head grew gray beneath his protection,
I was barred because of what followed the audience.
فإن تنأ ستور الإذنِ عنّا
فما نأتِ المحبّةٌ والثناءُ
Though the curtains of admittance recede from us,
love and praise have not receded.
وإن يك كادني ظلماً عدوٌّ
فعند البحث ينكشف الغطاء
And though my enemy has plotted unjustly against me,
when the matter is examined, the veil will fall away.
ألم ترَ أنّ بالآفاقِ منّا
جماجمَ حشوُ أقبرِها الوفاء
Have you not seen that, throughout the lands, from among us
lie skulls whose graves are filled with loyalty?
وقد وصف الزمان لنا زيادٌ
وقال مقالةً فيها شفاء
Ziyad has described Time to us,
and spoken a saying in which there is healing:
ألا يا رُبَّ مغمومٍ سيحظى
بدولتنا ومسرورٍ يساءُ
Ah, many a prize will be won
when fortune turns to us, while many a glad man will be grieved.
أمنتصرَ الخلائفِ جدت فينا
كما جادت على الأرض السماء
O champion of the caliphs, you have poured bounty upon us
as the sky pours bounty upon the earth.
وسعتَ الناسَ عدلاً فاستقاموا
بأحكامٍ عليهنّ الضياءُ
Your twofold justice embraced the people, and they stood upright
through judgments radiant with light.
وليس يفوتنا ما عشتَ خيرٌ
كفانا أن يطول لك البقاءُ
So long as you live, no good shall pass us by;
it is enough for us that your life endure.
Sol 5.6