Sol 6.1

  1. ما بالُ وِتْرِ صلاتِكُم لا يُشْفَعُ

    وعلامَ فيكمُ مُفرَدي لا يُجمَعُ

    Why is your prayer's odd number never made even?

    And why is my singular self among you never made plural?

  2. وإلامَ أرجو قُربَكم وشُموسُكم

    عن رَدِّهنّ إليّ يعجِزُ يوشَعُ

    How long shall I hope for nearness to you, while your suns

    are beyond Joshua's power to bring back to me?

  3. غِبْتُم وصيّرتُ الحَمائمَ بعدَكُم

    إلْفاً ولكنّي أنوحُ وتَسجَعُ

    You went away, and after you I made the doves

    my companions; yet I lament while they coo.

  4. وشقَقْتُ بعدَكمُ الجيوبَ ففصّلَتْ

    منهنّ لي حُمرَ الثّنايا الأدمعُ

    After you I tore my collars, and tears tailored

    from them for me robes with crimson folds.

  5. حتّام أطلبُ سَلسبيلَ وصالِكم

    وأُرَدَّ عنهُ وعِلّتي لا تَقنَعُ

    How long must I seek the Salsabil of union with you

    and be turned away from it, while my affliction is not content?

  6. إنّي لأعجَبُ من حِفاظِ عُهودِكم

    عندي وجِسمي في الرّسومِ مُضيّعُ

    I truly marvel that your pledges are preserved

    with me, while my body lies forsaken among the ruins.

  7. هجرَ الضّنى جَسَدي لوَصْلِكُمُ النّوى

    إذ للضّنى لم يَبْقَ فيهِ مَوضِعُ

    Wasting sickness forsook my body, since separation joined you,

    for no place remained in it for wasting sickness.

  8. وتشارَكَتْ في قَتْلِ نَومي خمسةٌ

    سهَرُ اللّيالي والدّموعُ الأربَعُ

    Five things shared in killing my sleep:

    nightly wakefulness and the four tears.

  9. للّهِ من رَشَقاتِ نَبْلِ جُفونِكُم

    فلهُنّ وَقْعٌ في القلوبِ وموقِعُ

    How wondrous are the volleys of arrows from your eyelids!

    They strike the hearts and find a lodging there.

  10. وبمُهجَتي نارٌ على وَجَناتِكُم

    تُوري وماءُ الحُسنِ منها يَنبَعُ

    And in my heart's blood is a fire that upon your cheeks

    blazes, while beauty's water wells from it.

  11. باللّهِ يا لُعْسَ الشِّفاهِ لصَبِّكُم

    أدّوا زكاةَ كُنوزِها لا تَمنَعوا

    By God, O dark-lipped ones, to your ardent lover

    pay the alms due on their treasures; do not withhold them.

  12. منطَقْتُمُ خَصْري بخاتَمِ خِنصري

    حيثُ اِسْتَوى جِسمي بكُم والإصبَعُ

    You girdled my waist with the ring of my little finger,

    for through you my body and finger have become alike.

  13. وإفاقةَ المُضنى بكُم ونِطاقُه

    بنَفيسِ ياقوتِ الدُموعِ مرصَّعُ

    And grant recovery to the one wasted by you, whose girdle

    is studded with precious rubies of tears.

  14. جحدَتْ جُفونُكم دَمي وخُدودُكم

    فيهنّ منهُ شُبهةٌ لا تُدفَعُ

    Your eyelids denied shedding my blood; your cheeks

    bear a suspicion of it that cannot be dismissed.

  15. وعذَلْتُموني إذ خلَعْتُ بحُبِّكُم

    عُذري فعُذري عندَكُم لا يُسمَعُ

    You reproached me when, through loving you, I cast off

    my excuse—yet with you my excuse goes unheard.

  16. لو تَعزِمونَ بواسِعاتِ عُيونِكم

    لعلِمتُموني أنّ عُذري أوسَعُ

    If you cast spells with your wide eyes,

    you would know of me that my excuse is wider still.

  17. كم يا سَراةَ الحيِّ فوقَ صُدورِكم

    من حيّةٍ تَسعى لقَلبي تلسَعُ

    How many, O chiefs of the clan, upon your breasts,

    are snakes that creep toward my heart and sting!

  18. ولكَمْ بكُم قمرٌ تبرْقَع بالسّنا

    وجَبينُ شمسٍ بالظّلامِ مقنَّعُ

    How many a moon among you is veiled in radiance,

    and a sun's brow masked in darkness!

  19. للّهِ كم بعيونِ عينِ كِناسِكمْ

    من ضَيغَمٍ يسطو وآخرَ يصرَعُ

    How wondrous—how many, in your covert's wide-eyed gazelles' eyes,

    are lions that charge and fell another!

  20. غَصَبَتْ غُصونَ قُدودِكُم دُوَلُ القَنا

    فغدَتْ لعزّتها تَلينُ وتَضرَعُ

    The dominions of spears usurped the boughs of your forms;

    then they grew pliant and supplicant before their might.

  21. واِستخدَمَتْ أجفانُكُم بيضَ الظُّبا

    فعصيُّهُنّ لها مُجيبٌ طيّعُ

    Your eyelids pressed bright sword-edges into service,

    so their rebellious ones answer them obediently.

  22. كلُّ العَوارضِ دُونَكم يومَ النّوى

    عند الوَداعِ تَزولُ إلّا البُرْقُعُ

    All barriers between me and you on the day of separation

    vanish at farewell, except the veil.

  23. يا لَيتَهُ أضحى لنَبْلِ لِحاظِهم

    هدَفاً فخَرْقُ سِهامِها لا يُدفَعُ

    Would that, for the arrows of their glances, it became

    a target, for their arrows' piercing cannot be repelled.

  24. كيف المَزارُ ودارُكم من دونِها

    سُمرٌ مشرّعةٌ وبيضٌ تلمعُ

    How can I visit, when before your dwelling

    stand leveled brown spears and gleaming bright swords?

  25. منعَ النّسيمُ بها عِناقَ غُصونِها

    فيدُ الصَّبا لو صافحَتْها تُقطَعُ

    The breeze is barred there from embracing its boughs;

    the east wind's hand, were it to clasp them, would be cut off.

  26. يا جيرَةً جاروا عليّ فزلزَلوا

    منّي الفؤادَ ورُكْنَ صَبري زَعْزَعوا

    O neighbors who wronged me and shook

    my heart, and rocked the pillar of my patience!

  27. ما حِيلَتي بعدَ المَشيبِ لوصلِكُم

    وصِبايَ عندَ حِسانِكُم لا يَنفَعُ

    What means have I, after gray hair, to reach union with you,

    when my youth is of no use with your beauties?

  28. أشكو إلى زَمني جفاكُم وهْو من

    إحدى نوائِبهِ ومنها أفظَعُ

    I complain to my age of your cruelty, though it is

    one of its calamities—and the most dreadful of them.

  29. يا قلبُ لا تَلقى ولا تَكُ واثِقاً

    بالبِشْرِ منهُ فإنّه متصنّعُ

    O heart, do not encounter it, nor trust

    its smiling welcome, for it is feigned.

  30. وببرّهِ لا تَسْتَعزَّ فإنّه

    فخٌّ بحبّتِهِ يَكيدُ ويخدَعُ

    Do not seek strength in its kindness, for it is

    a trap that plots and deceives with its bait.

  31. كم في بَنيه ظالِمٍ متظلّمٍ

    كالذئبِ يَقتَنِصُ الغَزالَ ويطلُعُ

    How many among its sons are tyrants who complain of wrong,

    like a wolf that hunts the gazelle and comes forth!

  32. لم يبقَ فيه كريمُ كُفؤٍ يُرتجى

    إلّا عليٌّ والسّحابُ الهُمّعُ

    No noble, worthy giver remains to be hoped in,

    except Ali and the pouring clouds.

  33. نجْلُ الكِرامِ أخو الغَمامِ وصاحب ال

    فَضلِ التّمامِ أخو الحُسينِ الأروَعُ

    Son of the noble, brother of rainclouds, possessor of the

    perfect bounty, the splendid brother of Husayn.

  34. سمحٌ تفرّد بالنّوالِ وإنْ غَدا

    وَكْفُ السّحابِ لكفّهِ يتتبّعُ

    A generous man unrivaled in giving, even though

    the clouds' dripping has come to follow his palm.

  35. يَهمي وتَهمي المُعصِراتُ وإنّما

    هذا لهُ طَبْعٌ وتِلكَ تطبُّعُ

    He pours forth, and the rainclouds pour forth; yet

    this is his nature, while theirs is mere imitation.

  36. للّهِ شُعلةُ بارِقٍ لا تَنطَفي

    في راحتَيْهِ وديمةٌ لا تُقلِعُ

    How wondrous: a lightning flame that never goes out

    in his two palms, and a steady rain that never ceases!

  37. بحرٌ بيومِ السِّلْمِ يَعذُبُ وِرْدُه

    ويعودُ يومَ الحرْبِ ناراً تسفَعُ

    A sea whose watering-place is sweet in days of peace,

    he turns in war to a fire that scorches.

  38. لو تَسْبَحُ الأقمارُ في فلَكٍ به

    لم تستطعْ في العامِ يوماً تطلُعُ

    Were moons to swim in an orbit within him,

    they could not rise a single day throughout the year.

  39. ولوَ اِنَّ حوتَ الأفْقِ يَسْكُنُ لُجّةً

    كادَتْ لعَنبرِهِ الدُّجُنّةُ تُقلِعُ

    And were the horizon's whale to dwell in a deep sea,

    the darkness would almost lift because of its ambergris.

  40. أنشا من العدمِ المكارمَ فاِغْتَدى

    منها يصوّرُ ما يشاءُ ويُبدِعُ

    He brought noble deeds from nothing into being, then

    from them shapes whatever he wishes and creates anew.

  41. فطِنٌ تنوّر قلبُه من ذِهنِه

    فظِباؤُه بضَميرِه تتشعْشَعُ

    Keen-witted, his heart was illuminated by his mind,

    so his blades glitter within his consciousness.

  42. فكأنّ عينَ الشمسِ كانت ضرّةً

    تَسقيهِ من لبَنِ الصّباحِ وتُرضِعُ

    As though the sun's orb were a nursing breast,

    giving him the milk of morning and suckling him.

  43. راجي نَداهُ لَدَيْهِ يَعذُبُ بأسُهُ

    فيكادُ في دُرِّ الكَواكِبِ يَطمَعُ

    With him, the seeker of his bounty finds his hardship sweet,

    and almost covets the pearls of the stars.

  44. وجيادُه في الغَزْوِ يُعطِشُها السُّرى

    فتكادُ في نَهْرِ المجرّةِ تَكرَعُ

    Night travel thirsts his steeds in warfare,

    until they almost drink from the river of the Milky Way.

  45. فضلَ المُلوكَ وطينُهُ من طينِهم

    ومنَ الحجارةِ جوهرٌ واليَرْمَعُ

    He surpassed kings, though his clay is of their clay;

    among stones, too, are jewels and soft white pebbles.

  46. يرنو إلى درَقِ الحَديد هوىً كما

    يَرنو إلى ورَقِ اللُجَيْنِ المُدْقِعُ

    He gazes lovingly at shields of iron, as

    the destitute man gazes at silver coins.

  47. ويَميلُ صبّاً للرّماحِ كأنّهُ

    صبٌّ بقاماتِ المِلاحِ مولَّعُ

    He inclines, enamored, toward spears, as though

    a lover infatuated with beauties' statures.

  48. كالقلبِ في صدرِ الخَميسِ تظنّه

    في جانِبَيْهِ من الصّوارِمِ أضلُعُ

    You would think him a heart in the breast of the army,

    with ribs of sharp swords on either side.

  49. يَسطو وأفواهُ الجِراحِ فواغِرٌ

    تَشكو وألسِنةُ الأسنّةِ تلذَعُ

    He strikes, while the gaping mouths of wounds

    complain, and the tongues of spearpoints sting.

  50. لم يرْوَ من ماءِ الفُراتِ حُسامُه

    كالنّارِ من إضرامِها لا تَشبَعُ

    His sword was not sated by the water of the Euphrates,

    like fire, which is never filled by its kindling.

  51. لو أريَحيّتُه تهزُّ لدى النّدى

    جَذْعاً لأوشَكَ باللآلئ يَطلُعُ

    Were his openhanded spirit, in giving, to shake

    a trunk, it would almost sprout pearls.

  52. بثَناهُ يَلهَجُ كلُّ ذي روحٍ فلو

    نطقَ الجَمادُ لكانَ فيه يصْدَعُ

    Every living soul speaks constantly of his praise; if

    the lifeless could speak, it would proclaim it aloud.

  53. تهوي لعزّتِه الرؤوسُ مَهابةً

    ولوَجهِه تَعنو الوُجوهُ وتخضَعُ

    Heads bow before his might in awe,

    and faces submit and bow before his face.

  54. يَبدو فكم من دَعوةٍ مشفوعةٍ

    في حاجةٍ تُهدى إليه وتُرفَعُ

    He appears: how many a petition, backed by intercession,

    for some need is offered up and raised to him!

  55. لمعادِنِ الأرزاقِ من أكْمامِه

    طُرُقٌ وللبحرَيْنِ فيها مَجمَعُ

    To the mines of sustenance, from his sleeves,

    run paths, and within them the two seas meet.

  56. عجباً له يسَعُ القَميصَ وإنّه

    لو كان شمساً لم تَسَعْهُ بَلْقَعُ

    How wondrous that he fits a shirt, though,

    were he a sun, no barren plain could contain him!

  57. لا يَبلُغَنّ إليه سهمُ مُعانِدٍ

    لو كان في قَوسِ الكَواكِبِ ينزِعُ

    No adversary's arrow shall ever reach him,

    even if he drew it in the bow of the stars.

  58. دانَتْ له الأيّامُ حتّى لو يشا

    عَوْداً لماضِيها لكانتْ تَرجِعُ

    The days obey him, so that if he wished

    them back to their past, they would return.

  59. نظرَ العُفاةُ نوالَهُ فاِستَبْشَروا

    ورأى العُداةُ نِزالَهُ فاِستَرجَعوا

    Seekers of bounty saw his giving and rejoiced;

    his enemies saw his combat and said, 'To God we return.'

  60. يا اِبْنَ المَيامِينِ الّذين على الوَرى

    بالفَضْلِ قد أخذوا العُهودَ وبُويِعوا

    O son of the auspicious men who, over mankind,

    by their excellence secured pledges and received allegiance!

  61. حازوا العُلا إرْثاً ومن آبائِهم

    عرفوا أصولَ المَكرُماتِ وفرّعوا

    They inherited high rank, and from their fathers

    learned the roots of noble deeds and made them branch.

  62. ما الحَوْزُ بعد نَداكَ إلّا مُقلةٌ

    مطروفةٌ فدُموعُها لا تهجَعُ

    Without your bounty, al-Hawz is nothing but an eye,

    stricken, whose tears never sleep.

  63. لبِسَتْ مشارِقُها الظّلامَ فشَمْسُها

    لا تنجَلي حتّى جَبينُك يَطلُعُ

    Its eastern horizons put on darkness, so its sun

    does not shine clear until your brow rises.

  64. أحيَيْتَها بالعَوْدِ بعد مَماتِها

    وكذا بعَوْدِ الغَيثِ تحْيا الأربُعُ

    You revived it by returning after its death,

    as rain's return revives the abodes.

  65. فارَقْتَها فكَأُمِّ موسى قلبُها

    يُبدي الصّبابةَ فارغاً يتوجّعُ

    You parted from it, and its heart, like Moses' mother's,

    reveals its yearning, empty and aching.

  66. ورجَعْتَ مَسروراً فقرّتْ باللِّقا

    عَيناً وقرّ فؤادُها المتفزّعُ

    You returned rejoicing; the meeting brought peace

    to its eye, and its frightened heart grew still.

  67. ناداكَ من نورٍ علَيْها دوحةٌ

    صَفوٌ به أزكى الأصول وأينَعُ

    A great tree upon it called to you out of light,

    pure, with the purest and most flourishing roots.

  68. فوطأْتَ أشرفَ بُقعةٍ قد قُدِّسَتْ

    ولبِسْتَ خِلعةَ إنّ نعلَك يُخلَعُ

    You trod the noblest ground, already sanctified,

    and donned honor's robe as your sandal was removed.

  69. وخُصِصْتَ بالرّؤيا هناك وفُزْتَ في

    شرفِ الخِطابِ ولذّ منكَ المسمَعُ

    You were singled out there for the vision, and won

    the honor of being addressed; your hearing found delight.

  70. فليَهنِكَ الشّرفُ الممَجّدُ وليَفُزْ

    في عودِك المَجدُ التليدُ الأرفعُ

    May you enjoy that exalted honor, and may

    the loftiest ancestral glory triumph in your return.

  71. مولايَ لم أُهْد القَريضَ إليكَ من

    طمَعٍ ولا بي عن عَطاكَ ترفُّعُ

    My lord, I did not offer poetry to you out of

    greed, nor do I disdain your giving.

  72. لكنّني قد خِفْتُ يسرِقُ دُرَّه ال

    متشاعِرونَ وفي سِواكَ يضيَّعُ

    But I feared its pearls would be stolen by the

    would-be poets, and squandered on anyone but you.

  73. وهواكَ ألجاني لذلك والهَوى

    سحرٌ به يُنشا القريضُ ويُصْنَعُ

    Love for you compelled me to this, and love

    is magic through which poetry is born and fashioned.

  74. فاِستَجلِها بِكراً يقلّدُها الثّنا

    بالدُرِّ منهُ وبالحَرير يلَفَّعُ

    So unveil her, a virgin whom praise adorns

    with its pearls and wraps in silk.

  75. عذراءَ قد زُفَّتْ إليكَ وإنّما

    منها الوصالُ على سِواكَ ممنّعُ

    A virgin already led in bridal procession to you; only

    union with her is forbidden to anyone but you.

  76. قد طرّزَتْ بسنيّ مدحِك بُرْدَها

    فكأنّما هوَ بالحَرير مجزَّعُ

    She has embroidered her mantle with your radiant praise,

    as though it were variegated with silk.

  77. وتمسّكَتْ بذُيولكُم فتمسّكَتْ

    أردانُها من طيبِكُم والأذرُعُ

    She clung to your hems, and thus were scented

    her sleeves and arms with your fragrance.

  78. محبوبةٌ سفرَتْ إليك ووجهُها

    منّي بحُسنِ الإعتذارِ مبرقَعُ

    A beloved who unveiled herself for you, her face

    veiled by me in the beauty of an apology.

  79. خشيتْ مُشاركتي بذَنبِ تخلّفي

    عنكم فكان لها لديكَ تسرُّعُ

    She feared sharing the guilt of my staying

    away from you, so she hastened into your presence.

  80. سبقَتْ لتشفعَ لي إليك وإنّما الْ

    وجهُ الجَميلُ لدى الكِرامِ يُشفَّعُ

    She went ahead to intercede for me with you; only the

    beautiful face is accepted as an intercessor by the noble.

  81. زهراءُ مطلَعُها بأفْقِ ثنائِكُم

    وخِتامُها مِسكٌ بكُم يتضوّعُ

    Radiant, she rises on the horizon of your praise,

    and her ending is musk that spreads its fragrance through you.