حُبّى لِإِغناءِ سَوّارٍ يُجَشِّمُني
خَوضَ الدُجى وَاِعتِسافَ المَهمَةِ البيدِ
My love of making Sawwār self-sufficient compels me
My desire to enrich Sawwar compels me
to brave the darkness and strike blindly across vast, barren wastes,
To plunge into the darkness and cross the trackless desert wastes,
كَي لا تَهونَ عَلى الأَعمامِ حاجَتهُ
وَلا يُعَلَّلَ عَنها بِالمَواعيدِ
so that his need may not be held cheap by his paternal uncles,
So that his need is not slighted by his paternal uncles,
nor he be fobbed off from it with promises,
Nor is he put off from it with promises;
وَلا يُوَلّيهِمُ إِن جاءَ يَسأَلُها
أَكتافَ مَعرَضَةٍ في العيسِ مَردودِ
nor, when he comes asking for it, turn away from them,
Nor, if he comes asking for it, should he show them
his shoulders averted among the pale camels, sent back rebuffed.
His shoulders as he turns away, rejected amid the pale camels.
إِذا بَكى قالَ مِنهُم ذو الحِفاظِ لَهُ
لَقَد بُليتَ بِخُلقٍ غَيرَ مَحمودِ
When he weeps, a man of family honor among them says to him:
When he weeps, the man of honor among them says to him:
“You have indeed been afflicted with an unworthy disposition.”
"You have indeed been afflicted with a trait unworthy of praise."
Sol 6.1