Sol 6.1

  1. لا يُغبَطَنَّ أَخو نُعمى بِنِعمَتِهِ

    بِئسَ الحَياةُ حَياةٌ بَعدَها الشَجَبُ

    Let no fortunate man be envied for his good fortune.

    Wretched is a life followed by woe.

  2. وَالحِسُّ أَوقَعَ حَيّاً في مَساءَتِهِ

    وَلِلزَمانِ جُيوشٌ ما لَها لَجَبُ

    And sensation has plunged the living into their misery.

    And Time has armies that make no clamor.

  3. لَو تَعلَمُ الأَرضَ ما أَفعالُ ساكِنِها

    لَطالَ مِنها لِما يَأتي بِهِ العَجَبُ

    If the earth knew what its inhabitant does,

    its wonder at what he brings about would long endure.

  4. بَدءُ السَعادَةِ أَن لَم تُخلَقِ اِمرَأَةٌ

    فَهَل تَوَدُّ جُمادى أَنَّها رَجَبُ

    The beginning of happiness is not to have been created a woman;

    does Jumada, then, wish that she were Rajab?

  5. وَلَم تَتُب لِاِختِيارٍ كانَ مُنتَجَباً

    لَكِنَّكَ العودُ إِذ يُلحى وَيُنتَجَبُ

    Nor did you repent through a freely chosen resolve;

    but you are the stick when it is scraped and stripped of bark.

  6. وَما اِحتَجَبتَ عَنِ الأَقوامِ مِن نُسُكٍ

    وَإِنَّما أَنتَ لِلنَكراءِ مُحتَجِبُ

    And you did not withdraw from people out of piety;

    rather, you hide away only because of calamity.

  7. قالَت لِيَ النَفسُ إِنّي في أَذىً وَقَذىً

    فَقُلتُ صَبراً وَتَسليماً كَذا يَجِبُ

    My soul said to me, 'I am in pain, with grit in my eye.'

    So I said, 'Patience and submission—so it must be.'