Sol 6.1

  1. الكَونُ في جُملَةِ العَوافي

    لا الكَونُ في جُملَةِ العُفاةِ

    To be among the foraging creatures,

    not to be among the beggars.

  2. لينُ الثَرى لِلجُسومِ خَيرٌ

    مِن صُحبَةِ العالَمِ الجُفاةِ

    The earth's softness is better for bodies

    than the company of the world's callous folk.

  3. قَد خَفَتِ القَومُ فَاِستَراحوا

    آهِ مِنَ الصَمتِ وَالخُفاتِ

    The people have fallen silent and so found rest.

    Ah, the silence and the deathly hush!

  4. لَم يَبقَ لِلظاعِنينَ عَينٌ

    تَبكي عَلى الأَعظُمِ الرُفاتِ

    For those who have departed, no eye remains

    to weep over the crumbled bones.

  5. أَرى اِنكِفاتي إِلى المَنايا

    أَغنى عَنِ الأُسرَةِ الكُفاةِ

    I see my turning toward death

    as freeing me from the need for capable kin.

  6. أُثبِتُ لي خالِقاً حَكيماً

    وَلَستُ مِن مَعشَرٍ نُفاةِ

    I affirm that I have a wise Creator,

    and I am not of the company of deniers.

  7. خَبَطتُ في حِندِسٍ مُقيمٍ

    وَأَعجَزَت عِلَّتي شُفاتي

    I have groped through abiding darkness,

    and my illness has baffled my healers.

  8. فَمِن تُرابٍ إِلى تُرابٍ

    وَمِن سُفاةٍ إِلى سُفاةِ

    So from dust to dust,

    and from windblown dust to windblown dust.

  9. نَعوذُ بِاللَهِ مِن غَوانٍ

    يَكِنُّ بِاللُبِّ مُعصَفاتِ

    We seek refuge in God from beautiful women,

    who assail the mind like raging winds.

  10. وَمِن صِفاتِ النِساءِ قِدماً

    أَن لَسنَ في الوُدِّ مُنصِفاتِ

    And among women's traits of old

    is that they are unfair in love.

  11. وَما يَبينُ الوَفاءُ إِلّا

    في زَمَنِ الفَقدِ وَالوَفاةِ

    And fidelity shows itself only

    in times of loss and death.

  12. كَم وَدَّعَ الناسُ مِن خَليلٍ

    سارَ فَما هَمَّ بِاِلتِفاتِ

    How many a dear friend have people said farewell to,

    who departed without a thought of looking back.