Sol 6

  1. O master of the steadfast throne,

    and the crown in the secure land,

  2. your place is in hearts,

    and your path is through the eyes.

  3. Go in God's path, followed

    by conviction and certainty.

  4. In a procession that, but for your majesty,

    would reveal the guarded secret,

  5. she moves in safety,

    gliding from cheek to cheek.

  6. Her proud bearing is plain to see,

    and her exuberance among the ships.

  7. She receives greetings of affection

    from the strongholds and fortresses.

  8. And when you disembark, you are welcomed

    by delegations of lions from their dens.

  9. You stand against the watchposts of

    fate, firm as a mountain.

  10. Honors of sovereignty come to you in succession,

    in worldly life and in faith.

  11. In your two cloaks, noble traits are seen,

    and signs of distinction upon your brow.

  12. You are the best of those whom

    the caliphs consulted on affairs.

  13. Your grandfather's sword has, in Crete,

    the exploits of manifest conquest.

  14. How much blood it spilled there,

    and how it drew out a hidden sickness.

  15. Its memory holds a lesson for kings

    and dread for the treacherous tyrant.

  16. What you have resolved

    for the kingdom will come in time.

  17. One impatient for his hopes must

    trust the one who guarantees them.

  18. Judgment refined by experience

    stands above those suppositions.

  19. I long for Faruq,

    but my longing does not intercede for me.

  20. Though the distance is short,

    I remain behind, burdened with sorrows.

  21. Would that the one who ordained longing

    grant me a firm bond.

  22. Would that she who carried the baggage

    to Faruq would carry me.

  23. I have the stronger claim to her

    broad shade and flowing water.

  24. I complain to you of the people of this age,

    though I see no one who complains of me.

  25. If my song delights them

    one day, they still have not heard my groan.

  26. Will the innocent one's imprisonment end?

    The prisoner's endurance has worn thin.

  27. Will the one bound by debt pay it, or

    will his debt never end?

  28. Is it right for this

    star to remain so still?

  29. If precious poetry could help,

    I would rise through precious poetry.

  30. My lord, in praising you

    I devote all my varied arts.

  31. This is a share of your generosity,

    and here is my book in my right hand.

  32. May your bounty keep flowing through the land,

    as your love flows through my heart's vein.

Sol 6