Sol 6.1

  1. Muhammad, the people of Jesus have overcome your people,

    And have come to hold sway over them.

  2. Yet this is not how I knew him—and my memory endures:

    He multiplies hardships, while you grow more gentle.

  3. So remind him to enjoin asceticism upon them,

    As they followed him in years gone by.

  4. Perhaps they will be content with what they have gained,

    And turn the reins, heading back.

  5. Muhammad, where is your command among the servants

    For whom you laid down the path of victors?

  6. They forgot it, and so sleep amid oppression,

    While others benefited from it.

  7. Muhammad, raise a cry among them; perhaps I shall

    See them hastening toward Yathrib,

  8. So they may hear the address and draw

    Hope from you, and steadfast resolve,

  9. And you may send them forth as victorious troops,

    Through what the Lord of the worlds revealed.

  10. So the lands fill with their clamor,

    And the ambitious bow to them in silence.

  11. Nor do I desire a world without peace,

    Nor do I accept any religion but Islam,

  12. Nor do I choose any cup but poetry,

    When pure wine entices habitual drinkers.

Sol 6.1