Sol 6.1

  1. أَهلاً بِغائِلَةِ الرَدى وَإِيابِها

    كَيما تُسَتِّرُني بِفَضلِ ثِيابِها

    Welcome, death's calamity and her return,

    That she may cover me with the ample folds of her robes.

  2. دُنياكَ دارٌ إِن يَكُن شُهّادُها

    عُقَلاءَ لا يَبكوا عَلى غُيّابِها

    Your world is a house: if those present there

    Are wise, they will not weep for those absent from it.

  3. قَد أَظهَرَت نُوَباً تَزيدُ عَلى الحَصى

    عَدَداً وَكَم في ضَبنِها وَعِيابِها

    She has shown calamities exceeding the pebbles

    In number—and how many lie in her bosom and her chests!

  4. تَفريهِمُ بِسُيوفِها وَتَكُبُّهُم

    بِرِماحِها وَتَنالُهُم بِصُيابِها

    She rends them with her swords and casts them down

    With her spears, and strikes them with her arrows.

  5. ما الظافِرونَ بِعِزِّها وَيَسارِها

    إِلّا قَريبو الحالِ مِن خُيّابِها

    Those who win her glory and her wealth

    Are little different in lot from those she disappoints.

  6. أَنيابُ جامِعَةِ السِمامِ فَمُ الَّتي

    أَطغَت فَخِلتُ الراحَ في أَنيابِها

    A venom-gathering serpent's fangs are the mouth of her

    Who drove me to excess; I fancied wine in her fangs.

  7. إِنَّ المَنِيَّةَ لَم تَهَب مُتَهَيَّباً

    فَالعَجزُ وَالتَفريطُ في هُيّابِها

    Indeed, death has never feared one held in awe;

    So weakness and negligence lie in those who fear her.

  8. وَمِنَ العَجائِبِ أَنَّ كُلّاً راغِبٌ

    في أُمِّ دَفرٍ وَهوَ مِن عُيّابِها

    And one marvel is that everyone longs

    For Umm Dafr—Mother of Stench—though he is among her detractors.

  9. فَاِتفُل عَنِ التُربِ الفَصاحَةَ إِنَّها

    تَقضي لِناعيها عَلى زُريابِها

    So spit out eloquence on the dust's behalf, for she

    Rules for her death-crier against her Ziryab.