Sol 6.1

  1. لِأَمرٍ ما خُلِقتَ فَما الغُرورُ

    لِأَمرٍ ما تُحَثُّ بِكَ الشُهورُ

    For some purpose you were created—why this delusion?

    For some purpose the months are driven onward with you.

  2. أَلَستَ تَرى الخُطوبَ لَها رَواحٌ

    عَلَيكَ بِصَرفِها وَلَها بُكورُ

    Do you not see calamities visit at evening,

    bringing you their reversals, and visit at dawn?

  3. أَتَدري ما يَنوبُكَ في اللَيالي

    وَمَركَبُكَ الجَموحُ بِكَ العَثورُ

    Do you know what will befall you in the nights,

    while your headstrong mount is prone to stumble with you?

  4. كَأَنَّكَ لا تَرى في كُلِّ وَجهٍ

    رَحى الحَدَثانِ دائِرَةً تَدورُ

    It is as though you do not see in every direction

    the millstone of time's calamities, turning round and round.

  5. أَلا تَأتي القُبورَ صَباحَ يَومٍ

    فَتَسمَعَ ما تُخَبِّرُكَ القُبورُ

    Will you not visit the graves one morning,

    and hear what the graves tell you?

  6. فَإِنَّ سُكونَها حَرَكٌ يُناجي

    كَأَنَّ بُطونَ غائِبِها ظُهورُ

    For their stillness is motion that whispers,

    as though the depths of what they hide lay exposed.

  7. فَيالَكَ رَقدَةً في غِبِّ كَأسٍ

    لِشارِبِها بَلىً وَلَهُ نُشورُ

    Ah, what a sleep is yours after a cup

    whose drinker faces decay and resurrection!

  8. لَعَمرُكَ ما يَنالُ الفَضلَ إِلّا

    تَقِيُّ القَلبِ مُحتَسِبٌ صَبورُ

    By your life, none attains excellence except

    one God-fearing at heart, seeking God's reward and patient.

  9. أُخَيَّ أَما تَرى دُنياكَ داراً

    تَموجُ بِأَهلِها وَلَها بُحورُ

    My dear brother, do you not see your world as an abode

    surging with its inhabitants, with seas of its own?

  10. فَلا تَنسَ الوَقارَ إِذا اِستَخَفَّ ال

    حِجى حَدَثٌ يَطيشُ لَهُ الوَقورُ

    So do not forget composure when an event unsettles the

    mind, making even the composed lose balance.

  11. وَرُبَّ مُهَرِّشٍ لَكَ في سُكونٍ

    كَأَنَّ لِسانَهُ السَبُعُ العَقورُ

    And many a man stirs strife against you while keeping still,

    as though his tongue were a mauling beast of prey.

  12. لِبَغيِ الناسِ بَينَهُمُ دَبيبٌ

    تَضايَقُ عَن وَساوِسِهِ الصُدورُ

    People's malice creeps among them;

    breasts grow too narrow for its whisperings.

  13. أُعيذُكَ أَن تُسَرَّ بِعَيشِ دارٍ

    قَليلاً ما يَدومُ بِها سُرورُ

    I pray you be kept from delighting in life in an abode

    where joy so seldom lasts.

  14. بِدارٍ ما تَزالُ لِساكِنِيها

    تُهَتَّكُ عَن فَضائِحِها السُتورُ

    In an abode where, before its inhabitants,

    the veils are ceaselessly torn from its disgraces.

  15. أَلا إِنَّ اليَقينَ عَلَيهِ نورٌ

    وَإِنَّ الشَكَّ لَيسَ عَلَيهِ نورُ

    Behold, there is light upon certainty,

    and there is no light upon doubt.

  16. وَإِنَّ اللَهَ لا يَبقى سِواهُ

    وَإِن تَكُ مُذنِباً فَهُوَ الغَفورُ

    And indeed, none but God remains,

    and if you are a sinner, He is the All-Forgiving.

  17. وَكَم عايَنتَ مِن مَلِكٍ عَزيزٍ

    تَخَلّى الأَهلُ عَنهُ وَهُم حُضورُ

    And how many a mighty king have you beheld,

    whose kin forsook him though they were present!

  18. وَكَم عايَنتَ مُستَلِباً عَزيزاً

    تَكَشَّفُ عَن حَلائِلِهِ الخُدورُ

    And how many a mighty plunderer have you beheld,

    the curtains of seclusion falling away from his wives,

  19. وَدُمِّيَتِ الخُدودُ عَلَيهِ لَطماً

    وَعُصِّبَتِ المَعاصِمُ وَالنُحورُ

    and cheeks bloodied by slaps in mourning for him,

    and wrists and throats bound!

  20. أَلَم تَرَ أَنَّما الدُنيا حُطامٌ

    وَأَنَّ جَميعَ ما فيها غُرورُ

    Have you not seen that this world is mere debris,

    and that all within it is delusion?