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البسيط

You have wearied my ears with your endless blame, so be brief,

What matters it to you if I sleep or stay up?

أَتعَبتَ سَمعي بِطولِ اللَومِ فَاِقتَصِرِ

ماذا أَهَمَّكَ مِن نَومي وَمِن سَهَرِي

You have lacked wisdom, how much sleep is there on an inflamed wound?

Tell me, were you shaped from stone or human?

عَدِمتَ رُشدَكَ كَم نَومٍ عَلى ضَمَدٍ

قُل لي أَمِن حَجَرٍ صُوِّرتَ أَم بَشَرِ

O you who lie down for the arrows of humiliation to strike you,

You are nothing but a victim of weakness and scorn.

يا جاثِماً لِسِهامِ الذُلِّ تَرشُقُهُ

ما أَنتَ إِلّا قَتيلُ العَجزِ وَالخَورِ

Stand up and brave dangers fearlessly,

For only the brave ride into danger.

ثِب قائِماً وَاِركَبِ الأَخطارَ مُقتَحِماً

فَإِنَّما يَركَبُ الأَخطارَ ذُو الخَطَرِ

And be not like what one of them has said,

A cloud that protected the sun but did not rain or travel.

وَلا تَكُن مِثلَ ما قَد قالَ بَعضُهُمُ

غَيمٌ حَمى الشَمسَ لَم يُمطِر وَلَم يسِرِ

Can I in this matter remain thus, a follower,

While my people and the lords of high station are my comrades?

أَفي القَضِيَّةِ أَن أَبقى كَذا تَبَعاً

وَالقَومُ قَومي وَأَربابُ العُلى نَفَري

How long is this waiting while my breath is in tumult,

And the darkness is extended and lifetime shortened?

كَم ذا اِنتِظاريَ وَالأَنفاسُ في صَعَدٍ

وَالظُلمُ في مَدَدٍ وَالعُمرُ في قِصَرِ

By my sword and resolve I will not fail them,

Rather my firmness is toward the Lord of High Station.

عَلى حُسامي وَعَزمي لا عَدِمتُهُما

وِردي وَلَكِن عَلى رَبِّ العُلى صَدَري

Why should I dread death or fear destruction

When the bearer of the dead is himself carried thereafter?

وَكَيفَ أَرهَبُ مَوتاً أَو أَخافُ رَدىً

وَحامِلُ المَيتِ مَحمولٌ عَلى الأَثَرِ

I am not one whom when fate befalls,

Shows weakness and fear of destiny.

وَلَستُ مِمَّن إِذا نابَتهُ نائِبَةٌ

أَحالَ عَجزاً وَإِشفاقاً عَلى القَدَرِ

O ruin of a lifetime among people you deem

Human, though they are naught but forms without essence.

يا ضَيعَةُ العُمرِ في قَومٍ تَخالُهُمُ

ناساً وَلا غَيرَ أَثوابٍ عَلى صُوَرِ

If the forbearing Qays had arbitrated among them

He would wish for them loss of hearing and sight.

لَو أَنَّ ذا الحِلمِ قَيساً حَلَّ بَينَهُمُ

لَوَدَّ مِنهُم ذَهابَ السَمعِ وَالبَصَرِ

If Noah lived among them a year,

He would say, O Lord this is the limit of life.

وَلَو يُعَمِّرُ نُوحٌ فيهمُ سَنَةً

لَقالَ يا رَبِّ هَذا غايَةُ العُمُرِ

Alas from me by an eloquence that will dispel

What stubbornness and stupidity used to be in me.

فَآهِ مِنّي بِحَجّاجٍ يزُولُ بِهِ

ما كانَ مِن عُجَرٍ عِندي وَمِن بُجَرِ

Draw near, O noble steed, for travel and slacken

Its bridle for it and mix the gentle winds with the virgin morn,

أَدنِ النَجيبَةِ لِلتِرحالِ واِرخِ لَها

زِمامَها وَاِخلط الرَوحاتِ بِالبُكَرِ

And trace for it a path meandering and be the first to journey

With no regret, and leave behind the abandoned dwellings,

وَخَطِّها الخَطَّ إِرقالاً وَأَولِ قِلىً

أَوالَ لا نادِماً وَاِهجُر قُرى هَجَرِ

Places corrupted by the people of corruption

Who destroyed them without thought or consideration,

أَماكِناً لَعِبَت أَهلُ الفَسادِ بِها

فَدَمَّرُوها بِلا فِكرٍ وَلا نَظَرِ

No excellence remains in their good, nor capacity

To benefit a friend or harm a foe,

لَم يَبقَ في خَيرِها فَضلٌ وَلا سَعَةٌ

عَنِ العَدُوِّ لذي نَفعٍ وَلا ضَرَرِ

But for Ibn Abdillah it would have been destroyed

Between the fangs of evil and victory,

أَما وَلَولا اِبن عَبدِ اللَهِ لا كَذِبا

لاِستُهلِكَت بَينَ نابِ الشَرِّ وَالظَفُرِ

If not for the determination of Ibn Abdillah it would have collapsed

Into pebbles with no pulp or moisture,

لَولا الهُمامُ اِبنُ عَبدِ اللَهِ لاِنقَلَبَت

حَصّاءَ نابٍ بِلا هُلبٍ وَلا وَبَرِ

But he never ceased to uncover it with his resolve

From the darkness of humiliation and destitution,

لَكِنَّهُ لَم يَزَل يَجلو بِهِمَّتِهِ

عَنها غَياهِبَ مِن ذُلٍّ وَمِن قَتَرِ

How many fires of evil blazed in it which he quenched

After they had filled the horizons with sparks,

كَم نارِ شَرٍّ عَلَت فيها فَأَخمَدَها

مِن بِعدِ أَن عَمَّتِ الآفاقَ بِالشَرَرِ

And how much dear wealth did its wealth ruin

From the vicissitudes of fate and others,

وَكَم أَخي ثَروَةٍ أَودى بِثَروَتِهِ

تَحامُلٌ مِن صُروفِ الدَهرِ وَالغِيَرِ

He gave wealth to it without being asked

Thus is the action of noble, generous men.

أَهدى إِلَيهِ الغِنى مِن غَيرِ مَسأَلَةٍ

كَذا يَكونُ فِعالُ السادَةِ الغُرَرِ

And how many an oppressed who wished from his oppression

A death which would lead to Paradise or Hellfire,

وَكَم مِن مَضيمٍ تَمَنّى مِن مَضامَتِهِ

مَوتاً يُؤَدّي إِلى الفِردَوسِ أَو سَقَرِ

He helped and removed his injustice so he no longer

Fears aught but God whether in the lands or towns.

أَغاثَهُ وَأَزالَ الضَيمَ عَنهُ فَما

يَخشى سِوى اللَه في بَدوٍ وَلا حَضَرِ

He made life and world appealing to him though

Life only grows sweet when fear and harm depart.

فَحَبَّبَ العَيشَ وَالدُنيا إِلَيهِ وَقَد

تَحلو الحَياةُ لِفَقدِ الخَوفِ وَالضَرَرِ

And how many a tyrant, severe in might, unjust

In his arrogance, clad in misguidance and wrapped in evil,

وَكَم غَشومٍ شَديدِ البَطشِ ذي جَنَفٍ

بِالكِبرِ مُشتَمِلٍ بِالتِّيهِ مُؤتَزِرِ

Who mentions not God except at thunder

When ascending or when thunder and rain clash,

لا يَذكُرُ اللَهَ إِلّا عِندَ رابِيَةٍ

يَرقى وَعِندَ اِرتِجاسِ الرَعدِ وَالمَطَرِ

Who meets winds when they blow over his plains

Bare of sword, from ignorance and evil,

يَلقى الرِياحَ إِذا هَبَّت بِساحَتِهِ

مُجَرَّدَ السَيفِ مِن جَهلٍ وَمِن أَشَرِ

Accompanied by every misguided wastrel when

Fate laments him, swifter dispersing than goat dung scattered,

يَتلوهُ كُلُّ غَوِيٍّ حينَ تَندُبُهُ

أَجرى مِنَ السَيلِ بَل أَشرى مِنَ النَفَرِ

Who knows no restraint in anything he covets

And reconsiders neither what is known nor strange,

لا يَعرِفُ المَنعَ في شَيءٍ يُحاوِلُهُ

وَلا يُراجِعُ في عُرفٍ وَلا نُكرِ

The rulers have accustomed him to gaining

Anything he desires, a habit of the oppressed toward the oppressor.

قَد عَوَّدَتهُ ذوُو الأَمرِ النُزولَ عَلى

ما شاءَ عادَةَ مَقهورٍ لِمُقتَهِرِ

He wanted from him what he used to expect from them

But met instead a twisted rope for the ambitious.

أَرادَ مِنهُ الَّذي قَد كانَ يَعهَدُهُ

مِنهُم فَصادَفَ أَلوى طامِحَ البَصَرِ

Brandishing arms entwined to fight transgression,

My resolve in this is firmer than solid rock.

مُماحِكاً لِلعِدى عَقّادَ أَلوِيَةٍ

أَقضي وأَمضي مِنَ الصَمصامَةِ الذَكَرِ

So he avoided him whose greed was his motive

And yielded after lofty head and neck.

فَعافَ مَن كانَ منَّتهُ مَطامِعُهُ

وَاِنقادَ بَعدَ طُموحِ الرَأسِ وَالصَعَرِ

If another were deputed to Bahrain it would be ravaged

And people informed of the worst news about it.

لَو غَيرُهُ وُلِّيَ البَحرَينِ لاِنتُهِكَت

وَخبِّرَ القَومُ عَنها أَسوَأَ الخَبَرِ

Rather men whose affair it is have assumed it

And through them it was left no thing and nothing spared.

فَقَد تَوَلَّت رِجالٌ أَمرَها وَسَعَت

فيها فَلَم تُبقِ مِن شَيءٍ وَلَم تَذَرِ

And which governor's son, which equipment of kingdoms and riches

Is more impudent in igniting every audacious resolute hero

وَأَيُّ سائِسِ مُلكٍ وَاِبنُ سائِسَةٍ

وَأَيُّ عُدَّةِ أَملاكٍ وَمُدَّخَرِ

Openhanded, who counts the abundance of wealth as a flaw

Among the generous if honor does not prosper?

أَغَرُّ ينمِيهِ مِن شَيبانَ كُلُّ فَتىً

حامي الذِمارِ جَوادٍ ماجِدٍ زَمِرِ

If the Banu Shaiban had no other merit

Except his father, every boaster would be silenced,

سَمحٍ يَعُدُّ وَفُورَ المالِ مَنقَصَةً

عِندَ الكِرامِ إِذا ما العِرضُ لَم يَفِرِ

And the heir of the sincere in religion did not die

For branches are made to flourish on the tree trunk.

لَو لَم يَكُن لِبَني شَيبانَ مَنقَبَةٌ

إِلّا أَبوهُ لَطالَت كُلَّ مُفتَخِرِ

The munificence of the generous is information but their munificence

Is something you see, and report is not like witnessing.

وَلَم يَمُت مَن صَفِيُّ الدِينِ وارِثهُ

إِنَّ الغُصونَ لَقَد تُنمى عَلى الشَجَرِ

You are ransomed by every kinsman, O you of elevation and glory,

In the wilderness and towns against vile deeds.

جُودُ الأَكارِمِ إِخبارٌ وَجُودُهُما

شَيءٌ تَراهُ وَلَيسَ الخُبرُ كَالخَبَرِ

When some misfortune mentions you, you recall

That ostrich who neither carried nor flew.

يَفديكَ يا ذا العلى وَالمَجدِ كُلُّ عَمٍ

عَنِ المَكارِمِ بادي العِيِّ والحَصَرِ

By Him to whom faces humble themselves, were it not for you

No minister would remain for the eminent.

إِذا يُلِمُّ بِهِ خَطبٌ ذكَرتَ بِهِ

تِلكَ النَعامَةَ لَم تَحمِل وَلَم تَطِرِ

They congratulated you on the Great Feast, and so

It has arrived while congratulations for the greatest are due to you.

فإِنَّهُ وَالَّذي تَعنُو الوُجُوهُ لَهُ

لَولاكَ لَم يَبقَ لِلعَلياءِ مِن وَزَرِ

By what feast are we congratulated when you are its delight?

Without you it would not be mentioned in hearing or sight.

قالوا نُهَنِّيكَ بِالعيدِ الكَبيرِ فَقَد

وافى وَتَركُ الهَنا مِن أَعظَم الكبَرِ

You remained a shadow over all people and

You were always granted success and victory.

وَهَل تهَنّا بِعيدٍ أَنتَ بَهجَتُهُ

لَولاكَ لَم يَحلُ في سَمعٍ وَلا بَصَرِ

And the world in which you are its blossom was not

Devoid of you until the sun was likened to the moon.

بَقيتَ ظِلّاً عَلى كُلِّ الأَنامِ وَلا

زِلتَ المَؤَيَّدَ بِالإِقبالِ وَالظَفَرِ

وَلا خَلَت مِنكَ دُنيا أَنتَ زَهرَتُها

حَتّى يُقارَن بَينَ الشَمسِ وَالقَمَرِ