Sol 6.1

  1. سُهادي فيكَ أعذبُ من رُقادي

    وغَيِّي فيكَ أحسنُ من رَشادي

    My sleeplessness for you is sweeter than my sleep,

    and my straying for you lovelier than my right guidance.

  2. وإن حَلَّ الفِراقُ عُقودَ دَمعي

    وبيَّنَتِ النَّوى ما في فُؤادي

    And if parting has unfastened the knots of my tears,

    and separation revealed what lies within my heart,

  3. فما زالَتْ غَوادي الدَّمعِ تُبْدي

    خَفِيَّ الوَجْدِ للظُّعْنِ الغَوادي

    the morning showers of tears have kept revealing

    hidden passion to the women departing at dawn—

  4. مَهاً لو مُلَّكَت غَرْبَ التَّنائي

    لآثرَتِ الدُّنُوَّ على البُعادِ

    oryx-eyed beauties who, if granted control of estrangement's force,

    would have preferred nearness to distance.

  5. مَرضاتُ الجُفونِ إذا انتَحَتْنا

    بأسهُمِها صَحيحاتُ الوَدادِ

    Languid of eyelid when they assail us

    with their arrows, yet sound in their affection.

  6. فمِنْ نَشوانَ من شَوْقٍ طَريفٍ

    أضفناه إلى شَوْقٍ تِلادِ

    So one is drunk with a newfound longing

    that we have added to a longing long held.

  7. وكم للبَيْنِ من شَوْقٍ طَريفٍ

    أضفناه إلى شَوْقٍ تِلادِ

    How much fresh longing separation brings,

    which we have added to a longing long held!

  8. ويومٍ لو مَلكْتُ قِيادَ صَبري

    بهِ أَلفَيْتَني صَعْبَ القِيادِ

    And a day when, had I held my patience's reins,

    you would have found me hard to rein.

  9. نُصِرْتُ على الهَوى بالدمعِ فيه

    كما نُصِرَ الأميرُ على الأعادي

    That day I was aided against passion by tears,

    as the emir was aided against his enemies.

  10. فتىً كالدَّهْرِ يُسعِدُ مَنْ يُوالي

    بأنعُمِهِ ويُشقي مَنْ يُعادي

    A young man like Time, who gladdens those he befriends

    with his blessings, and afflicts those he opposes.

  11. ترى الأقدارَ تَنجُدُ فيه نَجْداً

    رَحيبَ الباعِ يَخطِرُ في النِّجادِ

    In him you see the fates aiding a hero,

    ample of reach, striding proudly in his sword-belt.

  12. سَديدَ الرأي والرُّمحِ استقامتْ

    طَرائِقُهُ على طُرُقِ السَّدادِ

    Sound in judgment and spear; straight have run

    his ways along the paths of rightness.

  13. وأبيضَ في سوادِ الخَطْبِ يَسري

    بعَزْمٍ في سَوادِ اللَّيلِ هَادي

    And a radiant man who journeys through calamity's blackness,

    with resolve that guides through the blackness of night—

  14. بفَرْعٍ من عَدِيٍّ بينَ ماضي

    غِرارِ العَزْمِ أو واري الزِّنادِ

    a scion of Adi, whether wielding the keen

    edge of resolve or striking sparks from fire-sticks.

  15. فلاحَ سَناهُ في زَمنٍ بَهيمٍ

    وذابَ نَداه في سَنَةٍ جَمادِ

    His radiance shone in a pitch-dark age,

    and his dew flowed in a barren year.

  16. رَمَيْتَ ذوي العِنادِ وقد تمادَوا

    سَفاهاً في العَداوَةِ والعِنادِ

    You struck the obstinate, who had persisted

    foolishly in enmity and defiance,

  17. بجيشٍ للمَنايا فيه جيشٌ

    شديدُ البأْسِ في النُّوبِ الشِّدادِ

    with an army in which Death had an army,

    fierce in battle amid dire calamities.

  18. إذا ماجَ الحديدُ ضُحىً عليه

    حَسِبْتَ البرَّ بحراً ذا اطِّرادِ

    When iron surged over it in the morning light,

    you would have thought the land a rolling sea,

  19. ببيضٍ أخلَصَتْ حتى أقامَت

    عَمُودَ الصُّبحِ في ظُلَمِ الدآدي

    with bright blades, refined until they raised

    the pillar of dawn amid the darkness of moonless nights;

  20. وسُمْرٍ سُمَّرَتْ فيهنَّ زُرْقٌ

    هَوادٍ في النُّحورِ وفي الهَوادي

    and brown shafts with blue points riveted in them,

    guides into upper chests and necks.

  21. إذا صَدَرَتْ عن الأجسادِ خِيلَتْ

    مُضمَّخَةَ الصُّدورِ منَ الجِسادِ

    When they withdrew from bodies, they seemed

    to have their breasts anointed with saffron dye.

  22. فأَلبَسْتَ الخِلافةَ ثَوْبَ عِزٍّ

    غداةَ لَبِستَ قَسْطَلَةَ الجِيادِ

    Thus you clothed the caliphate in a robe of glory

    the morning you donned the steeds' dust-cloud.

  23. وأنتَ مُظَفَّرٌ في يومِ سَعْدٍ

    مَحا إشراقُه ظُلَمَ البِلادِ

    And you were victorious on an auspicious day

    whose radiance erased the darkness of the lands.

  24. رأيْنا اللَّيْثَ في غابِ العوالي

    به والشمسَ في ظِلِّ الأيادي

    We saw the lion amid a thicket of lofty spears

    in him, and the sun beneath the shade of giving hands.

  25. سَلِمْتَ لنَشْرِ عارفةٍ رُفاتٍ

    تَعُمُّ ودَفْعِ نائبةٍ نآدِ

    May you live safe to revive crumbled remains through kindness

    that reaches all, and to ward off crushing calamity.

  26. فكم حلَّتْ بساحتِكَ الأماني

    فلم يَصْدُرْنَ عن وِرْدٍ ثِمادِ

    How often hopes have alighted in your courtyard,

    and none departed with only a scanty draught!

  27. وكم قصدَتْكَ أبكارُ القَوافي

    فلم يَقنَعْ نَوالُكَ باقتصادِ

    How often virgin rhymes have sought you,

    and your bounty was not content with moderation!

  28. أرى مَنَّ الحُسينِ بلا امتنانٍ

    وإحسانَ الحسينِ بلا نَفادِ

    I see al-Husayn's gifts without reminders of favor,

    and al-Husayn's kindness without end.

  29. خِلالٌ كلُّها رَوْضٌ أريضٌ

    قريبُ العَهْدِ من صَوْبِ العِهادِ

    Traits, all of them a lush meadow,

    fresh from the downpour of recurring rains.

  30. يَفوزُ بها كريمٌ عن كريمٍ

    ويَحويها جَوادٌ عن جَوادِ

    A noble man gains them from a noble man,

    and a generous man holds them from a generous man.

  31. زَفَفْتُ إليه من مَدحي عَروساً

    مُعَرَّسةَ الهَوى في كلِّ نَادِي

    I led to him a bride drawn from my praise,

    wedded to love in every gathering,

  32. بألفاظٍ عَذُبْنَ فهنَّ أشهى

    إلى الصَّادي من العَذْبِ البُرادِ

    in words grown sweet, and therefore more desired

    by the thirsty than sweet, cool water.

  33. سَوادٌ في بياضٍ لاحَ حتى

    حَسِبناهُ بياضاً في سَوادِ

    Black upon white, it shone until

    we thought it white upon black.

  34. وإن بدأَتْ مواهبُه وعادَت

    فمَدحي عائدٌ فيه وبَادِي

    And if his gifts begin and come again,

    then my praise of him returns and begins anew.