Sol 6.1

  1. سَعَيْت لهذا المُلك بالهمَّة الكبرى

    فأدركتَ أَفنائها الدَّولة الغرَّا

    You strove for this realm with the greatest resolve,

    And within its precincts you attained glorious sovereignty.

  2. وسرتَ على نُبل الأَسَنَّة للعلى

    ومن رامَ إدراك العُلى ركبَ الوعرا

    You marched toward the heights on noble spearheads,

    And whoever seeks to attain the heights rides the rugged path.

  3. لنيل المنى جُزتَ المسير وإنَّما

    يخوض عباب البحر من يطلب الدّرَّا

    To gain your wishes you traversed the journey; only

    Those who seek pearls plunge into the sea's surging waters.

  4. إذا عارضت دون المرام بحيرةٍ

    من الحتف صيّرت الحديد لها جسرا

    If, barring your goal, there stood a lake

    Of death, you made iron a bridge across it.

  5. وإنْ رقمت فوق الأَنام حنادسٌ

    جَلَيْتَ من الرَّأي السَّديد لها فجرا

    And if dark nights traced their marks above mankind,

    You unveiled for them a dawn of sound judgment.

  6. قدِمتَ قدوم اللَّيث غابة شبله

    ونزّهت هذا الملك بالنيَّة الخضرا

    You came as a lion comes to its cub's thicket,

    And purified this realm with your verdant intent.

  7. درى الملك يا مولايَ أَنْتَ فؤاده

    فضمَّك منه حين أسكنك الصَّدرا

    The realm knew, O my lord, that you are its heart,

    So it embraced you as its own when it lodged you in its breast.

  8. رقيتَ على كرسيّه فأَزَنْتَهُ

    فأَصْبَحْتَ كالتوريد في وجنة العَذرا

    You ascended its throne and adorned it,

    And became like the rosy blush on a maiden's cheek.

  9. فما هذه الفيحاء إلاَّ قلادة

    ونحرك من كلِّ النّحور بها أحرى

    For this spacious city is nothing but a necklace,

    And your neck, of all necks, is most worthy of it.

  10. وما هي إلاَّ كاعبٌ قد تستَّرتْ

    قد اتَّخَذَتْ خَيْسَ الأُسُود لها خدرا

    And she is but a full-breasted maiden who has veiled herself;

    She has made the lions' thicket her bower.

  11. فجوزاء أُفقٍ بالدَّراري تمنْطَقَتْ

    مخدّمة تَستخدم البيض والسُّمرا

    So she is the horizon's Orion, girdled with brilliant stars,

    Waited upon, she employs bright swords and dusky spears.

  12. لقد مطلت بالوعد عصراً وعاودت

    فجادت بوصلٍ بعدما مطلت دهرا

    She deferred her promise for an age, then returned,

    And granted union after delaying for an age.

  13. تزَوَّجْتَها أَيْماً عجوزاً مُسِنَّةً

    فأَضْحَتْ لديك الآن كاعبةً بكرا

    You wed her husbandless, an old and aged woman,

    And now, with you, she has become a full-breasted virgin.

  14. فحكتَ لها ثوب المفاخر بالنَّدى

    وألبَستها من بأسك الحُلَّةَ الخضرا

    So you wove her a robe of glories with generosity,

    And clothed her in the green mantle of your valor.

  15. وهيَّأْتَ من نقد العوالي صداقها

    وأَنْقَدْتَ من بيض الحديد لها مهرا

    And prepared her dower from the coinage of lofty spears,

    And paid her dower in gleaming iron blades.

  16. قَدِمتَ لها من بعد كشف حجابها

    فكنت لعوراء الزَّمان لها سترا

    You came to her after her veil had been lifted,

    So you became her screen against the calamities of time.

  17. فعُدت إليها بالتقرُّب بعدما

    علاها قنوطٌ أَنْ تعود لها أُخرى

    Then you returned to her, drawing close, after

    Despair of your returning to her again had overtaken her.

  18. تدانيتَ منها كالهلال ولم تزلْ

    تَنَقَّلُ حتَّى عُدْتَ في أُفقها بدرا

    You drew near her like the crescent, and kept on

    Moving until you became a full moon on her horizon.

  19. وَوَدَّعْتَها مكروبة اللُّبّ والحشا

    وأُبْتَ وأَبْدَتْ من مسرَّتها البشرى

    And you bade her farewell, her mind and heart anguished,

    And you returned, and in her delight she revealed glad tidings.

  20. فإنْ طاوَعَتْكَ اليوم جهراً وصالها

    فقد كانَ هذا الأَمر في نفسها سرَّا

    So if today she openly yields her union to you,

    This matter had already been a secret within her soul.

  21. فكم مراً آنٌ وهي تكتم شوقها

    إليكَ وتُحْيي ليلَها كلَّه سرَّا

    For many a moment passed while she concealed her longing

    For you, and secretly kept vigil through her entire night.

  22. لأمر القضا كادَت تفرّ إذا رأت

    لوصلك وقتاً ولم تجد دونه عذرا

    At fate's command, she nearly fled whenever she saw

    A time for union with you, and found no excuse to avoid it.

  23. لقد أحْدَقَتْ بعد العمى بك عينها

    وأحدَثْتَ في أجفانها الفتك والسّحرا

    Indeed, after blindness, her eye gazed keenly at you,

    And you brought deadly power and magic to her eyelids.

  24. وحَلَّيت في سلك العزائم جيدها

    ووشَّحتَ منها في صنائعك الخصرا

    And you adorned her neck with a string of firm resolves,

    And girdled her waist with your benefactions.

  25. وزيَّنتَها حتَّى حكى التّبر تربها

    ولو لم تكن في أرضها أصبَحتْ صفرا

    And you beautified her until gold resembled her dust;

    And had you not been in her land, she would have turned to brass.

  26. فصِرْتَ لها لمَّا حللتَ بصدرها

    كيوسُفَ إذ ولاّه خالقُه مصرا

    So, when you settled in her breast, you became to her

    Like Joseph when his Creator set him over Egypt.

  27. فلم تَجْزِ أهلَ المكر يوماً بمكرهم

    ولم تصطنع غدراً لِمَنْ صَنَع الغدرا

    So you never repaid the schemers with their own scheming,

    Nor devised treachery against those who practiced it.

  28. صَفَحتَ عن الجانين إلاَّ أقلّهم

    فأوسَعْتَهم عَفواً وأثْقَلْتَهم شكرا

    You pardoned the offenders, save a very few of them,

    So you lavished pardon on them and burdened them with gratitude.