Sol 6.1

  1. أَزَجَرتَ الفُؤادَ مِنكَ الطَروبا

    أَم تَصابَيتَ إِذ رَأَيتَ المَشيبا

    Have you restrained your yearning heart,

    or played the youth when you saw gray hair?

  2. أَم تَذَكَّرتَ آلَ سُلمَةَ إِذ حَل

    لوا رِياضاً مِنَ النَقيعِ وُلوبا

    Or remembered Sulma's people, when they settled

    in meadows of al-Naqiʿ and Lub?

  3. يَومَ لَم يَترُكوا عَلى ماءِ عَمقٍ

    لِلرِجالِ المُشَيِّعينَ قُلوبا

    The day they left, at the water of ʿAmq,

    no hearts in the men who saw them off.

  4. رَجَعوا مِنكِ لائِمينَ فَكُلٌّ

    راحَ مِن عِندِكُم حَريباً سَليبا

    They returned from you reproachful; every one

    went away from your midst despoiled and stripped.

  5. وَبِعَينَيكَ إِذ غَدا الحَيُّ حَتّى

    عَسَفَ الحَيُّ بِاليَمينِ الكَثيبا

    And before your eyes the tribe set out at dawn, until

    the tribe forced its way across the dune to the right.

  6. لا تُبالي حُداتُهُم يَومَ قَفَّوا

    مَن تَوَلّى بِدائِهِ فَأُصيبا

    Their camel-drivers cared not, the day they departed,

    who turned away with his heartache and was stricken.

  7. إِنَّ في الهَودَجِ المُحَفَّفِ بِالدي

    باجِ ريماً مَعَ الجَواري رَبيبا

    Indeed, within the howdah fringed with brocade

    was a gazelle reared among the maidens.

  8. صَنَّعَتهُ أَيدي الجَواري وَعَلَّق

    نَ عَلَيهِ زَبَرجَداً مَثقوبا

    The maidens' hands adorned it, and they hung

    pierced chrysolite upon it.

  9. ظِلتُ مِن شَجوِها وَشَجوِ اللَواتي

    هُنَّ صَنَّعنَها أُنادي الطَبيبا

    I kept, from longing for her and for those women

    who had themselves adorned her, calling for a physician.

  10. ذَكرَةً ما ذَكَرتُها أُمَّ بَكرٍ

    بِقُرى الرومِ حينَ جُزنا الدُروبا

    How keenly I remembered her, Umm Bakr,

    in the Roman villages, when we crossed the passes!

  11. قَولُها إِذ تَقولُ سَقياً وَرِعياً

    بِحَديثٍ أُخفيهِ شَيئاً عَجيبا

    Her words, when she said, 'Rain and care be yours!'

    in talk I keep concealed—a wondrous thing.

  12. شِبهُ أَدماءَ مُغزِلٍ ضَلَّ عَنها

    خِشفُها فَاِنتَمَت مَكاناً سُهوبا

    She is like a pale mother-doe, from whom had strayed

    her fawn; then she made for a broad, open plain.

  13. فَهيَ مَشغوفَةٌ تَجولُ عَلَيها

    يَصدَعُ الصَخرَ صَوتُها وَالقُلوبا

    Distraught with longing, she roams over it;

    her cry splits rock and hearts.

  14. هَزِئَت أَن رَأَت بِيَ الشَيبَ عِرسي

    لا تَلومي ذُؤابَتي أَن تَشيبا

    My wife mocked me when she saw my gray hair:

    Do not reproach my forelock for turning gray.

  15. إِن يَشِب مَفرِقي فَإِنَّ قُرَيشاً

    جَعَلَت بينَها الحُروبُ حُروبا

    If my parting turns gray, it is because Quraysh

    has seen wars breed wars among its people.

  16. فَاِظعَني فَاِلحَقي بِقَومِكِ إِنّي

    لا أَرى أَن أُقيمَ فيكُم غَريبا

    Depart, then, and join your people; I

    do not think I should remain among you a stranger.

  17. فَاِنزِلي في بَني كِنانَةَ تَلقَي

    فيهِمُ العِزَّ إِن دَعَوتِ قَريبا

    Settle among Banu Kinana; you will find

    honor among them if you call upon a kinsman.

  18. حَيثُ إِن خَرَّ سَيفُ مَولاكِ لَم تَخ

    شَي مِنَ الناسِ مَن تَجَنّى الذُنوبا

    There, if your protector's sword falls, you need not fear

    any wrongdoer among men.

  19. ثُمَّ لَم تَعدَمي إِذا شِئتِ مِنّا

    فارِساً يَومَ نَجدَةٍ أَو خَطيبا

    Nor will you lack among us, whenever you wish,

    a horseman in time of need, or an orator.

  20. طالَ ما قَد نَزَلتِ في غَدَواتِ ال

    أَرضِ أَقرَوا بِكِ المَكانَ الخَصيبا

    Often you alighted, on morning journeys across

    the land; they lodged you in a fertile place.

  21. حينَ لِلعَيشِ لَذَّةٌ وَلَنا حا

    لٌ وَلَم تُجعِلِ الخُطوبُ خُطوبا

    When life was sweet, and we had prosperity,

    and troubles had not yet become calamities.

  22. فَأَرى الدَهرَ قَد تَغَيَّرَ بِالنا

    سِ وَقَد كانَتِ الشُعوبُ شُعوبا

    Now I see that time has changed for people,

    though peoples once were peoples.

  23. لَن تَرَي بَعدَ مَرجِ آلِ أَبي الضَي

    زَنِ ضَيماً وَلَن أُقادَ جَنيبا

    After Marj Al Abi al-Dayzan, you shall see

    no oppression, nor shall I be led away captive.

  24. حَلَقٌ مِن بَني كِنانَةَ حَولي

    بِفِلَسطينَ يُسرِعونَ الرُكوبا

    Bands of Banu Kinana surround me

    in Palestine, quick to mount.

  25. مِن رِجالٍ تُغني الرِجالَ وَخَيلٍ

    رُجُمٍ بِالقَنا تَسُدُّ الغُيوبا

    Of men who give men aid, and horses

    that hurtle with lances, filling the hollows.

  26. لا يُبالونَ مَن أَقامَ إِذا ما

    كَشَفوا بِالسُيوفِ يَوماً عَصيبا

    They care not who remains, whenever

    they dispel a dire day with their swords.

  27. ذاكَ خَيرٌ مِنَ البَليخِ وَمِن صَو

    تِ ذِئابٍ عَلَيَّ يَدعونَ ذيبا

    That is better than al-Balikh and the sound

    of wolves against me, calling for a wolf.

  28. إِنَّ قَومَ الفَتى هُمُ الكَنزُ في دُن

    ياهُ وَالحالُ تُسرِعُ التَقليبا

    Indeed, a man's people are his treasure in

    his earthly life, while fortune swiftly changes.

  29. قَد أُطيعُ الخَليلَ ما لَم أَرَ العَج

    زَ وَأَعلو بَعدَ السُهوبِ سُهوبا

    I may heed a friend, so long as I see no weakness,

    and cross one open plain after another,

  30. بِأُلاتِ البُرى عَلَيها رِحالُ ال

    مَيسِ يُتبِعنَ بِالرَسيمِ الخَبيبا

    on nose-ringed she-camels bearing saddles of

    hackberry wood; they follow a trot with a brisk stride.