Sol 6.1

  1. Rejoice! Our fortune has risen,

    after it had been scorched.

  2. And the gleam of hope’s lightning

    flashed after long estrangement.

  3. And the eye of our age gazed

    toward us after long averting its gaze.

  4. And its suns dispelled

    the darkness of ignorance, which then vanished.

  5. And truth arrived after

    crushed falsehood had perished.

  6. And the dull-natured man, from

    a stock with no menstrual blood,

  7. treated the people harshly,

    and spurned the paths of fidelity.

  8. He knew no grammar, and what

    the people had established, he overturned.

  9. So, for this and its like,

    and for a matter that was the aim,

  10. they ‘raised’ him by dragging him down,

    instead of appointing him, and so he sank.

  11. They gave us in his place

    Awad—what a replacement!

  12. The best judge of the armies of the

    faith, who has indeed risen for truth.

  13. The most just of all creation when he judges,

    the most generous of people when he gives,

  14. the most learned of the people in what

    the True One prescribed and made obligatory.

  15. And he stood by it, just as

    an accident subsists in substance.

  16. So a voice called out,

    addressing him and urging him on:

  17. You are that man: exalted is

    what you have brought, and risen high.

  18. Rise, and take it as a chronogram:

    Renew the faith, O Awad!

Sol 6.1