Sol 6.1

  1. في العناءِ الطّويل كيف وقعتُم

    لاعَدِمْتم هذا العناءَ المُعَنِّي

    How did you fall into such prolonged suffering?

    May you never be free of this tormenting hardship!

  2. قد مضتْ نوبةُ السُّرور فلم يب

    قَ سوى تَرْحَةٍ ونَوْبةِ حُزْنِ

    Joy's turn has passed, and nothing remains

    but sorrow and a turn of grief,

  3. ورَكوبٍ ظهورَ حُدْبٍ شَموسا

    تٍ على كلّ راكبيهنّ خُشْنِ

    and riding the backs of humped, unruly mounts,

    harsh to all who ride them.

  4. أيّها المظهرُ القبيحَ وقد كا

    ن قديماً ما بين قُبحٍ وحُسْنِ

    O you who reveal ugliness, though it was

    once between ugliness and beauty!

  5. ليس مَن بات مُرصداً مضرمَ الكي

    دِ بكُفْوٍ للغافلِ المطمئِنِّ

    One who spends the night lying in wait, kindling deceit,

    is no peer of the unwary, trusting man.

  6. أيُّ شيءٍ أردتَ بِي ثُمّ ماذا

    راب يوماً صميمَ قلبكِ مِنّي

    What did you intend for me? Then what

    ever troubled your heart's core about me?

  7. لَيت حالاً دامتْ بعقلٍ فمن ذا

    يرتجي أَنْ يَدوم حالاً بأفْنِ

    Would that a state endured through wisdom! Who, then,

    expects a state to last through folly?

  8. إِنْ تَبت حصنك الثَّراء وقومٌ

    نَصرهمْ في يديك فاللَّهُ حِصْنِي

    If you spend the night with wealth and men as your fortress,

    their aid in your hands—then God is my fortress.

  9. وَإِذا ما اِتّخذتَ ركناً من النّا

    س فمن غيرهمْ لعَمْرُكَ ركني

    And when you take a pillar of support from among men,

    then, by your life, my pillar comes from elsewhere.

  10. لم تقدني قهراً إليك فمن قب

    لك بالقهرْ نحوه لم يقُدْني

    You did not drive me to you by force; for whoever came before you

    did not drive me toward himself by force.

  11. أنَا حرٌّ بين الرّجالِ فما يَمْ

    لك رِقّي ذو المنِّ فيهمْ بمَنِّ

    I am free among men; no benefactor

    among them can enslave me with a favor.

  12. رابَني في اِختيارِ مثلك عقلي

    وأَرَتْني المحالَ عيني وأُذني

    I mistrusted my judgment for choosing one like you,

    and my eye and ear showed me the impossible.

  13. وظننتُ الجميلَ ثمّ تأَمَّلْ

    تُ فأكْدى حَدسي وأخفَقَ ظَنّي

    And I expected goodness; then I reflected,

    so my intuition proved barren and my expectation failed.

  14. ولو أنّي لمّا شريُتك جرّبْ

    تك قبل الشّراءِ ما بان غَبْنِي

    And had I, when buying you, put you to the test

    before the purchase, my loss would not have come to light.

  15. كَيفَ ضَيّعتَنِي وقد كنتَ بي فَوْ

    قَ محلِّ السِّماك لو لم تُضِعنِي

    How could you neglect me, when through me you would have stood above

    al-Simak's station, had you not neglected me?

  16. فإذا هِجتَني فقد وَدّ من قب

    لك مَن ودّ أنّه لم يَهِجْني

    So if you provoke me, someone before you has wished—

    wished that he had never provoked me.

  17. أنا في كلّ ساعةٍ بين أمْرَيْ

    نِ فُمبْكِ عيني ومضحكِ سِنِّي

    I am, at every hour, between two things:

    one makes my eye weep, the other makes my teeth laugh.

  18. ومقيمٌ على خِطارِ اللّيالي

    بَينَ راوٍ يروي عليّ وعنِّي

    And I remain amid the hazards of the nights,

    between a narrator reporting against me and on my authority,

  19. وتَجَنٍّ من الزّمان ومن يُد

    رِكُ يا قومُ غايةَ المُتَجَنِّي

    and unjust treatment from Time. Who can fathom,

    O people, the aim of one who wrongs without cause?

  20. وَلو اِنّي أطَعْتُ عزمي لأصبح

    تُ من النّاس نافضاً فَضْلَ رُدْني

    And had I obeyed my resolve, I would have been

    shaking the loose end of my sleeve free of people.