Sol 6.1

  1. يا ليلُ طوبَى لمعشَرٍ رقدُوا

    إِلامَ هذا السُّهادُ والكَمَدُ

    O night, blessed are those who have fallen asleep!

    How long must this sleeplessness and grief last?

  2. أمرِي طريفٌ وقِصَّتِي عَجبٌ

    طَنَّ بأمرِي وقِصَّتي البلدُ

    My plight is strange, and my story a marvel;

    The town resounded with my plight and my story.

  3. قد قالتِ الريحُ إذْ رأت سَقَمِي

    باللّهِ ما تحتَ ثوبهِ جَسَدُ

    The wind said, when it saw my sickness,

    “By God, there is no body beneath his robe!”

  4. وقالتِ النارُ إذْ رأتْ كَبِدِي

    تذوبُ عني إليكِ يا كَبِدُ

    And fire said, when it saw my liver

    melting, “Away from me, O liver!”

  5. رقَّتْ لِيَ النارُ والنسيمُ ولا

    يَرِقُّ لي مَنْ إليه أستنِدُ

    Fire and the breeze have pitied me, yet

    the one on whom I lean has no pity for me.

  6. يا ليتَ شِعري وهو المُسِيءُ إِذا

    أحسنتُ من أينَ ذلك الحَرَدُ

    If only I knew—he does wrong when

    I do good—where that anger comes from!

  7. أَبيتُ أرعَى النجومَ مرتفِقَاً

    وهيَ لآلٍ في لُجَّةٍ بَدَدُ

    I spend the night watching the stars, propped on my elbow,

    while they are pearls scattered in a deep sea.

  8. تغيبُ هذي وتلك طالعةٌ

    والقطبُ رأسٌ كأنَّهُ وَتِدُ

    This one sets while that one rises,

    and the pole star is a leader, as though it were a peg:

  9. أكمَهُ ضَلَّ الطريقَ منفرداً

    ما عندَهُ من هُداتِه أحَدُ

    blind from birth, having lost his way, alone,

    with none of his guides beside him,

  10. في فَلَكٍ دائرٍ مَجَرَّتُهُ

    نَهرٌ خِلالَ الرِّياضِ يَطَّرِدُ

    in a revolving sphere whose Milky Way

    is a river flowing steadily through the meadows.