Sol 6.1

  1. إِن كُنتَ تَلحاني فَلَستُ بِحاني

    وَمِنَ المَروءَةِ أَن تُعِينَ العَانِي

    If you reproach me, I am not one to bend;

    and it is noble conduct to aid the captive.

  2. يا حاضِراً يُلقي إِلَيَّ حَديثَهُ

    أَمسِك فَلَستُ بِحاضِرٍ تَلقاني

    O you who stand here, addressing your words to me,

    stop, for you do not find me present in mind.

  3. أَسمَعتَ حُكماً مَن لَهُ قَلبٌ وَما

    أَسمَعتَ قَولاً مَن لَهُ أُذُنانِ

    You made one with a heart hear a judgment, but did not

    make one with two ears hear a word.

  4. مَن لَم يَكُن سُلطانُهُ مِن حُجَّةٍ

    فَنَقادُها صَعبٌ بِلا سُلطانِ

    For one whose authority is not founded on proof,

    securing its submission is hard without authority.

  5. ظَعَنَت ذَخائِرُ أَدمُعي وَتَفَرَّقَت

    مِن قَبلِ يَومِ تَفَرُّقِ الأَظعانِ

    My stores of tears departed and scattered

    before the day the caravans dispersed.

  6. فَاليَومَ إِن لَم أَرضَ مِنهُ مُسخِطي

    بِفِراقِهِم فَالدَمعُ ما يَرضاني

    Today, unless I appease with tears the one who angers me

    by their departure, my tears will not be pleased with me.

  7. وَبِحَقِّهِ إِن لَم أَبُلَّ غَليلَهُ

    مِن بَعدِ ما أَسعَرتُهُ نيراني

    And rightly so, if I do not quench their thirst

    after my fires have set them ablaze.

  8. يا دَهرُ ما أَطلَعتَ لي يَومَ النَوى

    إِلّا مُعَقِّبَ لَيلَةِ الهِجرانِ

    O Time, you made the day of parting dawn for me

    only as the sequel to a night of estrangement.

  9. وَوَجَدتُ قَلبي إِذ سَمِعتُ عِتابَهُ

    يَصلى لَظاهُ وَما وَجَدتُ لِساني

    And I found my heart, when I heard his reproach,

    burning in its blaze, but I could not find my tongue.

  10. وَلَقَد أَطاعَتهُ جَميعُ جَوارِحي

    حَتّى اللِسانُ أَطاعَهُ وَعَصاني

    Indeed, all my limbs obeyed him;

    even my tongue obeyed him and disobeyed me.

  11. فَاليَومَ قُل ما لا عَلَيكَ بَيانُهُ

    فَعَلَيَّ حينَ عَصَيتَ صارَ بَياني

    So today, say what you have no duty to explain;

    for when you disobeyed, my eloquence turned against me.

  12. أَفدي بِنَفسي وَجهِكَ الراضي عَلى

    عَيني وَحِدَّةِ لَفظِكَ الغَضبانِ

    I would ransom with my soul your pleased face, dear to

    my eye, and the sharpness of your angry words.

  13. إِن تُنكِر النارَ الَّتي في مُهجَتي

    فَلَتَعرِفَنَّ الماءَ في أَجفاني

    If you deny the fire within my heart,

    you shall surely recognize the water in my eyelids.

  14. وَنَهَضتُ مِعثاراً بِدَمعِيَ وَالخُطا

    مَقصودها وَمُعَثِّري ذَمَلاني

    And I rose, stumbling in my tears; my steps

    were their target, and my hurried gait tripped me.

  15. لِلناسِ أَغصانٌ وَقَد يَجنونَها

    وَعَلِقتُ غُصناً دونَها وَجَناني

    Others have boughs, and they may pluck them;

    I loved a bough apart from theirs, and it plucked me.

  16. وَيَدُ النَسيمِ كَريمَةٌ عِندي بِما

    شَرَعَ التَعانُقَ بَينَ غُصنِ البانِ

    And the breeze's hand is generous in my eyes, for

    it ordained embraces among the bān tree's boughs.

  17. وَعَلى الأَحِبَّةِ مَن عِداهُم رِقيَةٌ

    وَعَلى الحَمائِمِ رِقيَةُ الأَغصانِ

    And others cast a spell upon the beloved,

    and upon the doves lies the spell of the boughs.

  18. وَالريحُ تَحتَ الطَيرِ تَجري خَيلُها

    وَالطَيرُ تُمسِكُ غُصنَهُ بِعَنانِ

    And beneath the birds the wind's horses race,

    while the birds hold their bough with a rein.

  19. وَيَهُزُّني كَالغُصنِ خَمرُ غِنائِهِ

    فَأَقولُ هَل غَنّاهُ أَو غَنّاني

    And the wine of its song sways me like a bough,

    so I ask: did it sing to the bough, or to me?