Sol 6.1

  1. ثِق في الحِجا دونَ الشقيق فربَّما

    كانَ الحجا دونَ الشقيقِ شقيقا

    Trust in reason rather than your brother, for sometimes

    reason has been a brother in your brother's stead.

  2. كَم بالحجا ضيقٌ غدا سعةً وكم

    سعة غدت عندَ الجهالةِ ضيقا

    How often, through reason, hardship has become ease, and how often

    ease has become hardship through ignorance.

  3. واِسمَح أخاك فأَنت إن كلَّفته

    شططاً أحلتَ البِرَّ منه عقوقا

    And be lenient with your brother, for if you burden him

    beyond all bounds, you turn his kindness into disloyalty.

  4. يا للرجالِ لحكمِ دهرٍ سيِّء

    ظنَّ اللئيم به غدا تحقيقا

    O men, help against the rule of an evil age—

    the scoundrel's suspicion of it has come true.

  5. دهر غدا بينَ الأنامِ حليمُه

    عيّاً وصار سفيهُه مِنطيقا

    An age whose forbearing man, among the people, has become

    tongue-tied, while its fool has become eloquent.

  6. وكريمُه المحمودُ أخلق قدرُه

    ولئيمه قد صار فيه خليقَا

    And its praised nobleman's standing has worn thin,

    while its scoundrel has indeed become worthy within it.

  7. والحرُّ عن نيلِ المطالب مُوثَقٌ

    والنَّذل يسعى في هواهُ طليقا

    And the free man is shackled, kept from attaining his aims,

    while the base man pursues his desire unfettered.

  8. وأولو النباهةِ والذكا والحِلمِ قد

    نُبذوا مكاناً في المحلِّ سحيقا

    And those of distinction, intelligence, and forbearance have

    been cast aside to a far-distant place.

  9. وأرى لديهِ المترَفينَ بجهلهم

    كفراً أضلُّوا قومَهم وفسوقا

    And I see within it those living in luxury, who through their ignorance

    have led their people astray into unbelief and wickedness.