Sol 6.1

  1. يا أهل لست بمشتاق إلى وطني

    حتى أرى خيل فنا خسرُ بينكُم

    O people, I do not long for my homeland

    until I see Fanna Khusraw's horses among you.

  2. أضحى يهنأ في الأضحى بمنزلة

    لا العرب نالت مراقيها ولا العجم

    He is now congratulated at Eid al-Adha on a rank

    whose heights neither Arabs nor non-Arabs have attained.

  3. أصغر بأضحية في غير يوم وغى

    فما اضاحيك الا الخيل والبهم

    How paltry a sacrifice on any day but a day of battle!

    For your sacrificial victims are only horses and valiant warriors.

  4. وإنما أنت لطف الله جسمه

    لنا وفي يدك الأرزاق والقسم

    And you are but God's grace, which He has given bodily form

    for us; and in your hand lie sustenance and allotted shares.

  5. عدلت حتى هممنا أن نجور وكم

    من شارك نعما في ضمنها نقم

    You have been so just that we considered acting unjustly; and how many

    have shared in blessings with afflictions hidden within!

  6. إن المسيح وقد بانت دلالته

    لولا هداه لما ضلت به الامم

    Indeed, the Messiah—his proof having become clear—

    but for his guidance, nations would not have gone astray through him.

  7. في كل ناحية لم ترعها امم

    الهدي منها بعيد والاذى أمم

    In every region you have not tended, there are nations:

    guidance is far from them, while harm is near.

  8. إن البلاد ومن فيها مروعة

    بها اليك وان طلتها قرم

    Indeed, the lands and those in them are driven in fear

    by them toward you, even if noble lords have sprinkled them with dew [uncertain reading].

  9. وما نبالي اذا ما كنت شاهدها

    أن غاب معتضد عنها ومعتصم

    And we do not care, if you are present there,

    that Mu'tadid and Mu'tasim are absent from them.

  10. عدها بنصرك أو قل سوف ادركها

    فإن قولك في أمثالهم قسم

    Promise them your aid, or say, 'I shall reach them.'

    For your word concerning their like is an oath.