Sol 6.1

  1. فيمَ اِبتِدارُكُمُ المَلامَ وَلوعا

    أَبَكَيتُ إِلّا دِمنَةً وَرُبوعا

    Why do you rush so obsessively to blame?

    Have I wept for anything but a ruined campsite and dwellings?

  2. عَذَلوا فَما عَدَلوا بِقَلبي عَن هَوىً

    وَدَعَوا فَما وَجَدوا الشَجِيَّ سَميعا

    They reproached me, but did not turn my heart from love,

    and called, but found the sorrowing man unwilling to listen.

  3. يا دارُ غَيَّرَها الزَمانُ وَفَرَّقَت

    عَنها الحَوادِثُ شَملَها المَجموعا

    O dwelling, changed by time; calamities have scattered

    from you your once-united company.

  4. لَو كانَ لي دَمعٌ يُحَسِّنُ لَوعَتي

    لَتَرَكتُهُ في عَرصَتَيكِ خَليعا

    If I had tears to adorn my anguish,

    I would have let them loose in your two courtyards.

  5. لا تَخطُبي دَمعي إِلَيَّ فَلَم يَدَع

    في مُقلَتَيَّ جَوى الفِراقِ دُموعا

    Do not solicit my tears; none have been left

    in my eyes by the burning grief of parting.

  6. وَمَريضَةِ اللَحَظاتِ يُمرِضُ قَلبَها

    ذِكرُ المَطامِعِ عِفَّةً وَقُنوعا

    And a woman of languid glances, whose heart is sickened

    by mention of covetous desires, so chaste and content is she.

  7. تَبدو فَيُبدي ذو الصَبابَةِ سِرَّهُ

    عَمداً وَتَتَّرِكُ الجَليدَ جَزوعا

    She appears, and the ardent lover reveals his secret

    deliberately; and she leaves the steadfast man distraught.

  8. كادَت تُنَهنِهُ عَبرَتي عَزَماتُها

    لَمّا رَأَت هَولَ الفِراقِ فَظيعا

    Her firm resolves almost held back my tears,

    when she saw the dreadful horror of parting.

  9. لِأَبي سَعيدِ الصامِتِيِّ عَزائِمٌ

    تُبدي لَها نُوَبُ الزَمانِ خُضوعا

    Abu Sa'id al-Samiti has firm resolves

    before which time's calamities show submission.

  10. مَلِكٌ لِما مَلَكَت يَداهُ مُفَرِّقٌ

    جُمِعَت أَداةُ المَجدِ فيهِ جَميعا

    A king who gives away what his hands possess,

    in whom all the means of glory are gathered.

  11. بَذَّ المُلوكَ تَكَرُّماً وَتَفَضُّلاً

    وَأَحانَ مِن نَجمِ السَماحِ طُلوعا

    He surpassed kings in generosity and bounty,

    and ushered in the rising of generosity's star.

  12. مُتَيَقِّظُ الأَحشاءِ أَصبَحَ لِلعِدى

    حَتفاً يُبيدُ وَلِلعُفاةِ رَبيعا

    Vigilant at heart, he has become to his foes

    a destroying doom, and springtime to supplicants.

  13. سَمحَ الخَلائِقِ لِلعَواذِلِ عاصِياً

    في المَكرُماتِ وَلِلسَماحِ مُطيعا

    Generous in nature, he defies reproachers

    in noble deeds, and obeys generosity.

  14. ضَخمَ الدَسائِعِ لِلمَكارِمِ حافِظاً

    بِنَدى يَدَيهِ وَلِلتِلادِ مُضيعا

    Lavish in gifts, he preserves noble deeds

    through his hands' bounty, while squandering inherited wealth.

  15. مُتَتابَعَ السَرّاءِ وَالضَرّاءِ لَم

    يُخلَق هَيوباً لِلخُطوبِ هَلوعا

    Visited in turn by prosperity and adversity, he was not

    created fearful of calamities or prone to panic.

  16. تَلقاهُ يَقطُرُ سَيفُهُ وَسِنانُهُ

    وَبَنانُ راحَتِهِ نَدىً وَنَجيعا

    You meet him with his sword and spearhead dripping,

    and the fingers of his palm, with bounty's dew and fresh blood.

  17. مُتَنَصِّتاً لِصَدى الصَريخِ إِلى الوَغى

    لِيُجيبَ صَوتَ الصارِخِ المَسموعا

    Listening keenly for the echo of a cry calling him to battle,

    to answer the caller's voice that reaches him.

  18. وَلَقَد يَبيتُ اللَيلَ ما يَلقى لَهُ

    إِلّا الحُسامَ المَشرَفِيَّ ضَجيعا

    Indeed, he passes the night, finding none for himself

    but the keen Mashrafi sword as bedfellow.

  19. مُتَيَقِّظاً كَالأُفعُوانِ نَفى الكَرى

    عَن ناظِرَيهِ فَما يَذوقُ هُجوعا

    Wakeful as a viper, he has banished sleep

    from his eyes, and tastes no slumber.

  20. لِلَّهِ دَرُّكَ يا اِبنَ يوسُفَ مِن فَتىً

    أَعطى المَكارِمَ حَقَّها المَمنوعا

    God bless you, son of Yusuf—what a noble youth,

    who gave noble deeds their withheld due!

  21. نَبَّهتَ مِن نَبهانَ مَجداً لَم يَزَل

    قِدماً لِمَحمودِ الفَعالِ رَفيعا

    You awakened in Nabhan a glory that has always been

    exalted of old for praiseworthy deeds.

  22. وَلَئِن بَنَيتَ ذُرى العُلا لَهُمُ لَما اِن

    فَكّوا أُصولاً لِلعُلا وَفُروعا

    And though you built glory's summits for them, they have never

    ceased to be glory's roots and branches.

  23. قَومٌ إِذا لَبِسوا الدُروعَ لِمَوقِفٍ

    لَبِسَتهُمُ الأَعراضُ فيهِ دُروعا

    A people: when they don armor for an encounter,

    their honor dons them there as armor.

  24. لا يُطمِعونَ خُيولَهُم في جَولَةِ

    إِن نيلَ كَبشُهُمُ فَخَرَّ صَريعا

    They give their horses no hope of wheeling away,

    if their battle-ram is struck and falls slain.

  25. لِلَّهِ دَرُّكَ يَومَ بابَكَ فارِساً

    بَطَلاً لِأَبوابَ الحُتوفِ قَروعا

    God bless you on Babak's day, a horseman,

    a hero hammering at death's gates.

  26. لَمّا أَتاكَ يَقودُ جَيشاً أَرعَناً

    يُمشى عَلَيهِ كَثافَةً وَجُموعا

    When he came against you, leading a mountain-like army,

    so dense and massed that one could walk upon it,

  27. وَزَّعتَهُم بَينَ الأَسِنَّةِ وَالظُبا

    حَتّى أَبَدتَ جُموعَهُم تَوزيعا

    you divided them among spearpoints and sword-edges,

    until you annihilated their hosts by dispersing them,

  28. في مَعرَكٍ ضَنكٍ تَخالُ بِهِ القَنا

    بَينَ الضُلوعِ إِذا اِنحَنَينَ ضُلوعا

    in a cramped battlefield where you would think the spears,

    when bent between ribs, were ribs themselves.

  29. ما إِن تَني فيهِ الأَسِنَّةُ وَالظُبا

    لِطُلى الفَوارِسِ سُجَّداً وَرُكوعا

    The spearpoints and sword-edges never flag there,

    prostrating and bowing at the horsemen's necks.

  30. حَلَّيتَهُ بِشُعاعِ رَأسٍ رَدَّهُ

    لُبسُ التَرائِكِ لِلهِياجِ صَليعا

    You adorned it with the radiance of a head that

    wearing helmets for battle had made bald.

  31. لَمّا رَأَوكَ تَبَدَّدَت آراؤُهُم

    وَغَدا مُصارِعُ حَدِّهِم مَصروعا

    When they saw you, their plans fell apart,

    and the champion of their fury lay overthrown.

  32. فَدَعَوتَهُم بِظُبا الصَفيحِ إِلى الرَدى

    فَأَتَوكَ طُرّاً مُهطِعينَ خُشوعا

    You summoned them to death with the edges of sword-steel,

    and all came to you, hastening in submission,

  33. حَتّى ظَفِرتَ بِبَذِّهِم فَتَرَكتَهُ

    لِلذُلِّ جانِبُهُ وَكانَ مَنيعا

    until you captured their Badhdh and left it

    with its flank given over to humiliation, though once impregnable.

  34. وَبِذي الكُلاعِ قَدَحتَ مِن زَندِ القَنا

    حَرباً بِإِتلافِ الكُماةُ وَلوعا

    And at Dhu al-Kula', you kindled from the spears' firestick

    a war avid for the destruction of armored champions,

  35. لَمّا رَمَيتَ الرومَ فيهِ بِضُمَّرٍ

    تُعطي الفَوارِسَ جَريَها المَرفوعا

    when you assailed the Romans there with lean horses

    giving the horsemen their gallop at full stretch.

  36. كُنتَ السَبيلَ إِلى الرَدى إِذ كُنتَ في

    قَبضِ النُفوسِ إِلى الحِمامِ شَفيعا

    You were the path to destruction, since you were,

    in seizing souls, an intercessor with death,

  37. في وَقعَةٍ أَبقى عَلَيهِم غِبُّها

    رَخَمَ الفَيافي وَالنُسورَ وُقوعا

    in a battle whose aftermath left upon them

    the vultures of the wastelands and eagles, settled there.

  38. هَذا وَأَيُّ مُعانِدٍ ناهَضتَهُ

    لَم تُجرِ مِن أَوداجِهِ يَنبوعا

    All this—and what adversary have you confronted

    without making a spring gush from his jugular veins?