Sol 6.1

  1. Honor his stature and the sincerity of his character.

    And praise his endeavor and its good outcome.

  2. And take splendid adornment from his

    works, and let his deeds be the orator.

  3. And prepare for him the means and

    auspicious avenues toward his aspirations.

  4. You are his most noble companions and his kin,

    and he is stronger through his companions and his kin.

  5. O elders of the homeland and its deputies in

    its two chambers, and O its unyielding men!

  6. You are his party and the finest of its sons,

    the realm's assembly at the site of his celebration.

  7. You have come to recall a pledge made to you,

    whose endurance and continuity he surely guarantees.

  8. And you render what the minister of the

    people deserves of their love and reverence.

  9. The man whose life's lessons have passed from

    him to his peers.

  10. The state's champion, restoring to it from

    its age what had eluded that age's champions.

  11. And the strong man who came for the freedom of the

    Valley, and the guarantor of its independence.

  12. O minister of the land, while the air is clear,

    and time is a helper in its favorable turn,

  13. and your position is made firm after suffering

    from its hurricanes and its earthquake;

  14. and the leader-orator proclaims to the

    nation the fruits of his striving and struggle.

  15. What you possess is God's decree; who can

    repel it or replace it?

  16. You know best the merit of delaying the

    matter, and best the wisdom of hastening it.

  17. A rival has left the path, yet you have not

    ceased to pity the rival over his downfall.

  18. And today the truth has seared the one who

    was drowning in his delusion and fantasy.

  19. And plain reality silenced the one whose

    false rumors and chaotic disputing had dragged on.

  20. And the troublemakers desisted, save a faction

    that persists in its obstinacy and error.

  21. What they threatened you with did not occur, so they

    busied themselves with supposing it and entertaining its possibility.

  22. They took up the task during a truce with

    time, and cast it aside amid its terrors.

  23. And they went to extremes in deceiving the

    people, to subjugate them and exploit them.

  24. And they claimed you were the squanderer of

    money; but for you, they would have wasted all the people's wealth.

  25. And they harmed the cause of the realm so much

    it nearly called them the culprits behind its occupation.

  26. And in the easy parts of what they undertook,

    they are just as in its difficult and impossible parts.

  27. What ails him who chafed at rule yesterday, but now

    assails you after withdrawing?

  28. Why has he become abject, yielded, and lowered

    his curtain after his arrogance and swagger?

  29. Why, after obeying his advisers,

    does he count the adviser among those who ousted him?

  30. Resenting you for shouldering what

    time has cast upon you of its burdens.

  31. Can one govern the land who has taken to amusing himself

    with his playthings alongside his children?

  32. No rebel against you from the

    Valley was debased, though its lofty mountains yielded to you.

  33. Winning your rival through kindness is better

    for you than subduing him and humiliating him.

  34. If there is a crisis, then in facing it you are

    Joseph, in his capability and resourcefulness.

  35. A keeper and dispenser, your justice in his

    scales stands firm, and in his measure.

  36. Prosperity has overcome the crisis, and you are the

    one ready and fit to bring it to fullness.

  37. Can life grow straitened while the earth is full

    of fruit, and the Nile flows sweet and clear?

  38. Money's malady has cheapened everything costly,

    and made it common after it was hard to attain.

  39. And the poor man received a share of it,

    and found comfort in its availability and cheapness.

  40. You are the one who recognizes the dignity owed the

    farmer, not one who sees him as one of his laborers.

  41. You care for him with abundant

    mercy amid his toil and meager circumstances.

  42. And you see him as a partner with half of what

    his strength has produced, the rightful due of his labor.

  43. And the wealthy, noble man is he who acquired

    money through the toil of both hands, not by begging for it.

  44. Indeed, a young man's debt, however small, is a wound

    in the young man's bones and in his limbs.

  45. And the abased man is wounded in honor that is

    lost, not in his property and harvests.

  46. And a debtor's release from his debt is

    like a prisoner's release from his shackles.

  47. Indeed, you make repayment easy for him

    at its appointed dates and its deadlines.

  48. You are one who, as a free man, asks of rule only

    his soul's satisfaction and peace of mind.

Sol 6.1