Sol 6.1

  1. تُعاتِبُني عِرسي عَلى أَن أُطيعَها

    لَقَد كَذَبَتها نَفسُها ما تَمَنَّتِ

    My wife reproaches me to make me obey her.

    Her own soul has surely deceived her in what she hoped for.

  2. وَظَنَّت بِأَنّي كُلَّما رَضَيَت بِهِ

    رَضِيتُ بِهِ يا جَهلَها كَيفَ ظَنَّتِ

    And she thought that whenever she was pleased with something,

    I would be pleased with it—oh, her folly! How could she think so?

  3. وَصاحَبتُها ما لَو صَحِبتُ بِمثلِهِ

    عَلى ذُعرِها أُروِيَّةً لاطمَأَنَّتِ

    And I have treated her in a way that, had I so treated

    A female ibex, despite its fear, it would have felt secure.

  4. وَقَد غَرَّها مِنّي عَلى الشَيبِ وَالبِلى

    جُنوني بِها جُنَّت حِيالي وَخُنَّتِ

    And what has deceived her about me, despite gray hair and decay,

    Is my madness for her—may she go mad before me and be strangled!

  5. وَلا ذَنبَ لي قَد قُلتُ في بَدءِ أَمرِنا

    وَلَو عَلِمَت ما عُلِّمَت ما تَعَيِّتِ

    And I am blameless; I spoke at the outset of our life together.

    And had she understood what she was taught, she would not have been at a loss.

  6. تَشَكّى إِلى جاراتِها وَبَناتِها

    إِذا لَم تَجِد ذَنباً عَلَينا تَجَنَّتِ

    She complains to her neighbors and her daughters;

    When she finds no fault in us, she invents one.

  7. أَلَم تَعلَمي أَنّي إِذا خِفتُ جَفوَةً

    بِمَنزِلَةٍ أَبعَدتُ عَنها مَطيَّتي

    Did you not know that, when I fear cold treatment

    At a lodging, I take my mount far away from it?

  8. وَإِنّي إِذا شَقَّت عَليَّ قَرينَتي

    ذَهَلتُ وَلَم أَحنِن إِذا هيَ حَنَّتِ

    And whenever my companion makes life hard for me,

    I forget her and do not yearn when she yearns.