Sol 6.1

  1. You tended your party until it was complete.

    And you journeyed with your caravan until it arrived.

  2. And you came to the comrades with eloquent speech,

    And showed them the fruits of labor.

  3. And you charged each brother with his burden,

    And you are his helper in what he bears.

  4. And whoever gathers around you is rightly guided,

    And whoever strives behind you is a hero.

  5. And for whoever had faith as his provision,

    The mountain moved before him.

  6. Your merit is stubbornly denied by those who rebel

    Against you, though nations have held you in esteem.

  7. Your bounty has nearly overwhelmed them,

    And still embraces them among those it has embraced.

  8. Why, then, have they trusted the debtor,

    Who still persists in delaying repayment?

  9. They deem, from the side of those who turn away,

    Every guest who arrives a messenger of goodwill.

  10. They hope, through disgraceful deeds, to find a path

    To power, though it is the seat of ills.

  11. They are nothing but stumbling blocks of the age;

    You cleared it of them, and it found its balance.

  12. They spent themselves, yet secured no date

    For any undertaking, nor a deadline for fulfillment.

  13. They put your age on trial, though it is innocent,

    And laid upon it the sins of those who came before.

  14. Their newspapers quiver with threats,

    Yet it is nothing but anguish and fear.

  15. They are only remnants of the right wing,

    Which they loved madly amid what remains of the ruins.

  16. Egypt has felt shame at what they have come

    To, while they themselves know no shame.

  17. So if you are awaiting an intention

    They have urged one another to adopt, it is another of their tricks.

  18. You prevented their leader from living

    On what he claimed and what he falsely appropriated.

  19. A madness for leadership seizes him,

    And in leadership there is nothing but failure.

  20. Even if the nights made it easy for him,

    He would shun it again and withdraw.

  21. And he would have done well to leave the arena,

    Where he is wretched, had he any sense.

  22. In the envious man's eyes, the fault of events

    Is your gaining from them what he did not attain.

  23. Can reproach avail against fate's decrees?

    Can argument help against what is plain to see?

  24. Is the house the nation's, or the wolves',

    Who plot treacherous murder for the people within it?

  25. Is that prayer for anything but scheming—

    The charlatan's prayer among the rabble?

  26. Is this hypocrisy to be found in mosques?

    Is that fraud to be found in churches?

  27. Is this embrace for love?

    Are those kisses a mark of honor?

  28. Is the struggle in the streets to be waged

    Through turmoil and vulgar chanting?

  29. Tricks with which he amuses himself by day—

    And were the dark nights to conceal him, he would kill.

  30. You challenged whoever was earnest in his aggression

    Against you, and turned a blind eye to whoever jested.

  31. And the last of the angry band will ultimately come

    To you, and the first will return.

  32. And I am a son of your region, at ease

    With what has happened and what has come to pass.

  33. And I am your supporter in what you have resolved,

    Strong in conviction, great in hope.

Sol 6.1