Sol 6.1

  1. طالَت لجاجَةُ آيسٍ مُتَقاضي

    فتَعَرَّضَت للصَّدِّ والإعراضِ

    A despairing claimant's insistence has dragged on,

    and so was exposed to rebuff and disregard.

  2. لو كانَ يَسخطُ من يُردُّ بغصَّةٍ

    من حاجَةٍ ما عادَ عودةَ راضِ

    If one rebuffed in anguish were to take offense,

    his request denied, he would not return content.

  3. لكنَّها سُبلُ الهَوى أولاكُم

    بسُلوكِها المُتَسامِحُ المُتَغاضي

    Yet these are love's paths; the fittest among you

    to tread them is the indulgent, forbearing one.

  4. ومُخالفٍ بينَ الجَوارِحِ خائِفٍ

    من قائِمٍ بظلامَتي نَهاضِ

    And one who sets the limbs at odds is fearful

    of a champion, quick to rise in redress of my wrong.

  5. ما في حَشايَ خِلاف ما في مُهجَتي

    كم بينَ جمرِ غضىً وزهرِ رياضِ

    What lies in my breast differs from what lies in my heart;

    how far apart are ghada embers and garden blossoms!

  6. أصبَحتُ مُغتَبطاً أرى في وَجهِه

    من كلِّ شيءٍ أكبرَ الأعواضِ

    I became joyful, seeing in his face

    the greatest recompense for everything,

  7. حتى نأى وتبعتهم في عُصبةٍ

    أجسامُهم بهواهُ كالأعراضِ

    until he departed, and I followed them among a band

    whose bodies, for love of him, were like insubstantial attributes.

  8. بانَت رَكائبهُم يُلطِّفُها السُّرى

    فالحِقَّةُ الكَوماءُ بنتُ مخاضِ

    Their riding camels departed, thinned by the night journey,

    so the high-humped three-year-old she-camel became a yearling.

  9. والنائِباتُ تَظنُّ بعضَ عَزائِمي

    فيما أحاوِلُ خلبَ الإيماضِ

    And misfortunes deem some of my resolves,

    in what I attempt, flashes of rainless lightning.

  10. هذا إذا قَضتِ الخُطوب لنفسِها

    أو كانَ غيرَ أبي الحُسينِ القاضي

    That is so if calamities rule in their own favor,

    or if the judge were someone other than Abu al-Husayn,

  11. أو قبلَ أن يروي بسيبِ يَمينِه

    عَطَشي ويَملأ بعدَ ذاكَ حياضي

    or before he quenches, with his right hand's bounty,

    my thirst and afterward fills my pools.

  12. ألبَستَ هَذا الثَّغرَ داوديَّةً

    يَثني جَوانبها الحسام الماضِي

    You clothed this frontier stronghold in Davidic mail,

    whose sides turn back the keen-edged sword.

  13. وأقمتَ في طُرقٍ تُعالِجُ داءهُ

    بدَوائِهِ فنَجا من الأمراضِ

    And you kept to ways of treating its ailment

    with its remedy, and so it escaped disease.

  14. وبذَلتَ مالكَ دونَ دينكَ مُوقِناً

    أن لستَ قبلَ الحَشرِ بِالمعتاضِ

    And you gave your wealth to safeguard your faith, certain

    that you would receive no recompense before the Resurrection.

  15. وجَعلتَ ترفُلُ بينَ بأسِكَ والندى

    ما بَينَ فتَّاك إلى فَياضِ

    And you began to stride proudly between your might and bounty,

    ranging from a deadly slayer to an overflowing giver.

  16. ناهيكَ للأزَماتِ من مُستَنقذٍ

    مِنها وللغَمرات من خَوَّاضِ

    How excellent you are: in crises, a rescuer

    from them; in perilous depths, a bold wader.

  17. سَبط الخَلائقِ والمُحَيا باسِمٌ

    مُتَدفِّقُ الجَفناتِ والأحواضِ

    Gentle in character, with a smiling face,

    with serving bowls and watering basins overflowing.

  18. لما رَمى أملي إليكَ وقادَني

    أيقَنتُ أنكَ أنجحُ الأغراضِ

    When my hope aimed toward you and led me on,

    I knew for certain you were the most rewarding of goals.

  19. ووَدِدتُ أنِّي لو نهَضتُ بِشُكرِه

    أبَداً وأشكرُهُ عَلى استِنهاضِ

    And I wished I could rise to give it thanks

    forever, and I thank it for spurring me to rise.