Sol 6.1

  1. O people, I do not long for my homeland

    until I see Fanna Khusraw's horses among you.

  2. He is now congratulated at Eid al-Adha on a rank

    whose heights neither Arabs nor non-Arabs have attained.

  3. How paltry a sacrifice on any day but a day of battle!

    For your sacrificial victims are only horses and valiant warriors.

  4. And you are but God's grace, which He has given bodily form

    for us; and in your hand lie sustenance and allotted shares.

  5. You have been so just that we considered acting unjustly; and how many

    have shared in blessings with afflictions hidden within!

  6. Indeed, the Messiah—his proof having become clear—

    but for his guidance, nations would not have gone astray through him.

  7. In every region you have not tended, there are nations:

    guidance is far from them, while harm is near.

  8. Indeed, the lands and those in them are driven in fear

    by them toward you, even if noble lords have sprinkled them with dew [uncertain reading].

  9. And we do not care, if you are present there,

    that Mu'tadid and Mu'tasim are absent from them.

  10. Promise them your aid, or say, 'I shall reach them.'

    For your word concerning their like is an oath.

Sol 6.1