Sol 6

  1. What kind of feast do you return with, O Eid?

    Do you pour out anguish for us, or blessings?

  2. The news has so alarmed me that I seem

    To face, in each report, an army ready to fight.

  3. Has the fearsome lion left his den,

    And have the defenders surrendered the strongholds?

  4. Have the conquerors’ swords betrayed their hands,

    And have their ships lost their way to shore?

  5. Has word of them reached the Sacred House

    And terrified the pilgrims and tribes around it?

  6. Does the noble tomb know what has happened?

    Its very sides seem to tremble as it asks.

  7. Was it for the East, the West, or both together

    That the Turks’ enemies prepared those pickaxes?

  8. Must I wait until the throne falls among them

    And flames consume those groves?

  9. My life for the defeated, who endured

    Crusader schemes and snares before the battle.

  10. When they sought help from the Muslims, the Muslims held back;

    And how many deceivers they found among the people of Jesus.

  11. O House of Osman, take heed: these are

    Experiences that have awakened heedless peoples.

  12. The powerful nations today, despite their vile conduct,

    Are not safe from a lurking threat around the prey.

  13. I see discord among them over your inheritance

    And your spoils, gathering evil on every side.

  14. How many a state has risen, grown old, and passed away;

    Has the West made a pact with ever-changing time?

  15. Let the world perish if I must live to see no

    Armies of Islam bringing other armies down.

Sol 6