Sol 6.1

  1. أتاني عَنكَ إخوانُ

    كَ بالأمسِ مُهنِّينا

    Your brothers came to me with news of you,

    yesterday, offering congratulations.

  2. يهنُّونَ بأن صِرتَ

    تقولُ الشِّعرَ مَوزُونا

    They congratulated me because you had begun

    to compose poetry in meter.

  3. فما صدَّقتُهم مِن فَ

    رحٍ فيما يَقولُونا

    So I did not believe them, out of

    joy at what they were saying,

  4. إلى أن كشَفُوا لي أن

    نَهُم في القَولِ يَلهُونا

    until they revealed to me that

    they were jesting in their talk.

  5. فلَم تأتِ لكَي أظهِ

    رَ مِن عَقلكَ مكنُونا

    You did not come so that I might reveal

    what lay hidden in your mind.

  6. ولِم أمكَنتَهُم أن يَض

    حَكوا مِنَّا فيُبكُونا

    And why did you let them

    laugh at us and make us weep?

  7. ومنَّا أبداً كانَ

    يكونُ اللَّهوُ لا فِينا

    And it was always from us

    that the jesting came—not at our expense.

  8. فَشاوِرني كما يَفعَ

    لُ قَومٌ أجنبيُّونا

    So consult me, as

    strangers do.

  9. إذا ما قلت شعراً لا

    تصيِّر مدَّه دُونا

    Whenever you compose a poem, do not

    make its span any less;

  10. ودَوِّنهُ على استِقبا

    لِ خمس وثَمانينا

    and record it at the approach

    of eighty-five.

  11. ونُبِّئتُكَ قُصِّبتَ

    فقَد أصبَحتُ مَحزونا

    And I was told you had been reviled,

    so I have become sorrowful

  12. على أعراضِنا صارَت

    مع الناسِ يَسبُّونا

    for our reputations, which have ended up

    among people who revile us.

  13. إذا ما العُقَلا صارُوا

    يَقصُّونَ المَجانِينا

    When the sane begin

    to follow the madmen,

  14. فما يُعِوزُهم فَضلٌ

    من النّقصِ يُواسُونا

    they lack no surplus

    of deficiency with which to console us,

  15. لكَي تَبلغَ ما قَد بَ

    لغُوهُ فيُساوُونا

    so that you may reach what they have already

    reached, and thus they may equal us.