Sol 6.1

  1. فَلا يَكونَنَّ مَوعوداً وَأَيتَ بِهِ

    دَيناً يَعودُ إِلى مَطلٍ وَلَيّانِ

    So let no promise you have pledged become

    a debt that lapses into delay and evasion.

  2. وَاِعلَم بِأَنَّ نَجاحَ الوَعدِ مَنزِلَةٌ

    جَليلَةُ القَدرِ عِندَ الأُنسِ وَالجانِ

    And know that fulfilling a promise is a distinction

    held in high esteem among humankind and jinn.

  3. لا أُنهِئُ الأَمرَ إِلّا رَيثَ أُنضِجُهُ

    وَلا أُكَلِّفُ عَجزَ الأَمرِ أَعواني

    I leave a matter raw only while I cook it through;

    nor do I charge my helpers with a task's final part.

  4. ثُمَّ اِنصَرَفتُ وَظَلَّ الحِلمُ يَعذُلُني

    قَد طالَ ما قادَني جَهلي وَعَنّاني

    Then I turned away, and forbearance kept reproaching me;

    long has my folly led me and tormented me.

  5. كَأَنَّها ناشِطٌ لاحَ البُروقُ لَهُ

    مِن نَحوِ أَرضٍ تَرَبَّتهُ وَأَوطانِ

    As though she were a roaming wild bull, before which lightning flashed

    from the direction of the land that nurtured it and its native haunts.

  6. حَتّى غَدا خَرِصاً طَلّاً فَرائِصُهُ

    يَرعى شَقائِقَ مِن عَلقى وَبِركانِ

    Until it became cold and hungry, its flanks damp with drizzle,

    grazing patches of ʿalqā and birkān.

  7. يَعلو الظَواهِرَ فَرداً لا أَليفَ لَهُ

    مَشى البِطَركُ عَلَيهِ رَيطُ كَتّانِ

    It climbs the uplands alone, with no companion,

    with the gait of a patriarch draped in linen robes.

  8. بَني أُمَيَّةَ إِنَّ اللَهَ مُلحِقُكُم

    عَمّا قَليلٍ بِعُثمانَ بنِ عَفّانِ

    Sons of Umayya, God will surely join you

    before long with ʿUthmān ibn ʿAffān.