Sol 6

  1. راش سهمَ الملامِ حينَ راشا

    فحشاهُ قلبي وما إِن تَحاشى

    He fletched the arrow of blame when he fletched it.

    Then he lodged it in my heart, which did not evade it.

  2. أَن رأى الحلمَ ناشَ جَهْدَ التصابي

    في اغتباطٍ منّي به حين ناشا

    For he saw restraint attack my strenuous youthful yearning,

    While I rejoiced in it as it attacked.

  3. ورأى أنَّني انخزَلتُ انقياضاً

    بعد ما كنتُ أَشرئبُّ انهشاشا

    And he saw that I had drawn back, shrinking away,

    After I had once craned forward in delight.

  4. لابساً بعد ذلك العيش عيشاً

    مستحبّاً في مثله أن يُعاشا

    After that life, I put on another life,

    A life one would gladly live.

  5. أيها اللائمي كم استصباحٍ

    أعقبته العواقبُ استعشاشا

    O you who blame me, how often a bright beginning

    Has ended in darkness.

  6. أنا ذاك الآبي احتراشَ الغواني

    لُبَّهُ واللبيبُ يأبى احتراشا

    I am the one who refuses to let beauties ensnare his mind;

    A discerning man refuses such ensnarement.

  7. ليس كلُّ الهنودِ هنداً ولا ك

    لُّ رقاشٍ من الغواني رقاشا

    Not every woman named Hind is Hind, nor is eve

    ry beauty named Raqash truly Raqash.

  8. مثلما ليس سادةٌ مثل سادا

    تي فمن شاءَ فليقلْ كيف ما شا

    Just as no lords are like my lor

    ds; let anyone say whatever he wishes.

  9. رائشي من أَتاهمُ مستريشاً

    وَيُرى مستريشهم مستراشا

    They enrich whoever comes to them seeking riches,

    And their petitioner is seen richly provided for.

  10. ناعشي مَن يَرى مَطيَّتَهُ النع

    شَ إذا ما عداهم استنعاشا

    They lift the one who sees his mount become a bi

    er, if he passes them by while seeking rescue.

  11. باذلي القوتَ وحشةً أن يبيت ال

    مستبيتون منهمُ أوحاشا

    They give food, dreading that their

    Overnight guests should sleep like wild creatures.

  12. إنا إِن أَستَنِشْهُمُ العزَّ في الدن

    يا وفي الدينِ واجدٌ مستَناشا

    If I seek from them honor in this wor

    ld and in faith, I find what I sought.

  13. بُوِّئوا من قريشَ أوسعها فخ

    راً لدن أوسعوا قريشَ افتراشا

    They were settled in the broadest place in Quraysh for pri

    de, since they spread shelter wide for Quraysh.

  14. حين راسوا على رواسي جبالِ ال

    شركِ ضرباً أَطارها أو أطاشا

    When they struck at the firm mountains of poly

    theism, sending them flying or reeling.

  15. كلَّما كشَّ أُفْعُوانُ ضَلالٍ

    دَمغوا أُفعُوانه الكشَّاشا

    Whenever a serpent of error hissed,

    They crushed that hissing serpent's head.

  16. دمغوا كلَّ مُجْرَئشٍّ حَشَتْهُ

    جَهْلَةُ الجاهليَّة اجْرئشاشا

    They crushed every bristling one whom

    The ignorance of the Age of Ignorance had filled with arrogance.

  17. مستبثِّي عن لمّةٍ وعذارٍ

    بدَّلاني بالادْهِمامِ أبْرِشاشا

    My gray hair and cheek whiskers, asked about,

    Have traded their darkness for mottled whiteness.

  18. لم أُسوِّدْ وجهَ المشيب ولا حكَّ

    متُ فيه المقراضَ والمنقاشا

    I did not blacken the face of old age, nor did I apply

    Shears and tweezers to it.

  19. بل وجدتُ المشيبَ أَفضلَ منتا

    شٍ من الغيِّ للمريدِ انتباشا

    Rather, I found gray hair the best resc

    uer of one who seeks release from error.

  20. زائداً في بصيرتي في هواكمْ

    ناعشي كلَّما استمحتُ انتعاشا

    It increased my insight in my love for you,

    And revived me whenever I sought renewal.

  21. ما تَعَاشيتُ مذ علمتُ ولا أو

    طأتُ في العلمِ عَشْوةً من تعاشى

    I have not feigned blindness since I learned, nor have I ste

    pped blindly through knowledge like one pretending not to see.

  22. إِخوتي ما لنا نملُّ الندامى

    معَ مَنْ ملَّ أو يملُّ احتماشا

    My brothers, why should we tire of companions

    Along with one who has tired, or will tire, of embracing them?

  23. ليس منّي فُرْشي ولا أنا منها

    جانبَ الجنبُ في الحسينِ الفراشا

    My bedding is no part of me, nor I of it;

    Sleep has kept far from my side because of Husayn.

  24. فمتى جَمَّش الكرى جَفْنَ عيني

    لم يَجدْ جفنُ عيني انجماشا

    Whenever drowsiness brushes my eyelid,

    My eyelid finds no yielding to it.

  25. ومتى ما بكيتُ منكمشاً كا

    ن بكائي أشدَّ مني انكماشا

    And whenever I weep, huddled up,

    My weeping draws in tighter than I do.

  26. فاز بطنُ العراق بالأنسِ منه

    وشكى بطنُ يثربَ الإيحاشا

    The heart of Iraq won the comfort of his presence,

    While the heart of Yathrib lamented its desolation.

  27. واستعاضت تلك المغاني من الأه

    لين وحشاً يزيدها إستيحاشا

    Those dwelling places exchanged their peo

    ple for wild creatures that deepen their loneliness.

  28. خالياتٍ تمشي ببوغائها الري

    حُ وأُدْمُ الظباءِ فيها تَماشى

    Empty, with wind walking over their bare ground

    And tawny gazelles roaming through them.

  29. إن تَفُتْها الظُّلمانُ تزجي رئالاً

    لا تَفُتْها الخيطان تُزْجِي جحاشا

    If ostriches driving their chicks have left them,

    Wild asses driving their foals have not.

  30. أَعطَشَتْ بعد أَنجمٍ من بني أح

    مدَ يجلو ضياؤها الإِغطاشا

    They grew thirsty after stars from Ahmad's off

    spring, whose light dispelled the dark.

  31. خاتمُ الرسل والمميحُ رياشَ ال

    فضلِ للمستميحِ منه الرّياشا

    The seal of the messengers, who granted the plumage of

    Grace to one who asked him for it.

  32. صاحبُ الحوضِ ضامنُ الريّ في يو

    مٍ يسودُ الرواءُ فيه العِطَاشا

    Master of the Pool, assuring water on a da

    y when those who reach water still thirst.

  33. مثقبُ النورِ للبريّةِ نورِ ال

    عدلِ من بعد ما خبا وتلاشى

    He pierced the world with the light of ju

    stice after it had dimmed and faded.

  34. للذي قال للمريدِ اقتصاصاً

    اقتصصْ ما تريدُ منِّي عُكَاشا

    He said to one who wanted requital,

    'Take from me whatever you wish, Ukasha.'

  35. هو خَشَّ التقى بغيرِ خشاشٍ

    ثم أَعطى الوصيَّ ذاك الخشاشا

    He secured piety without a fastening,

    Then gave that fastening to his successor.

  36. حبَّش المأزِقَ الممزَّق بالسي

    فِ وبالرّمح دونَه الأحباشا

    He pressed into the torn breach with swo

    rd and spear, facing the Abyssinians.

  37. لم يَطِشْ سَهْمهُ ببدرٍ ولا أُحْ

    دٍ ولا كان في حنينِ مُطَاشا

    His arrow did not miss at Badr or Uhu

    d, nor was it deflected at Hunayn.

  38. بل أبارَ الأسودَ يومَ حنينٍ

    أَسَدٌ يتركُ الأسودَ خِشاشا

    Rather, at Hunayn he destroyed the lions:

    A lion who leaves other lions scattered.

  39. يوم تاهتْ به السيوفُ مِصاعاً

    وتباهت به الرماح فراشاً

    That day swords exulted in him as they struck,

    And spears boasted of him as they pierced.

  40. وكأن الأحزاب جراداً

    وكأَنَّ اليهودَ كانوا فَراشا

    The allied troops seemed like locusts,

    And the Jews seemed like moths.

  41. حشَّ نيران حربِهِمْ ناضياً سَيْ

    فاً لنيرانِ حريهم حشَّاشا

    He stoked the fires of their war, baring a swo

    rd to feed the fires of their burning.

  42. من يُمِلْ عرشَه يُمِلْهُ بمأثو

    رٍ يُميلُ العروشَ والأعراشا

    Whoever would topple his throne, he topples with a well tempered swo

    rd that brings down thrones and seats of power.

  43. خائضُ الجحفلِ الكثيفِ بضربٍ

    يوسعُ الجحفلَ الكثيفَ انفشاشا

    He plunged into the dense army with blows

    That scattered that dense army far and wide.

  44. يُعْمِلُ الضربةَ المُرِشَّةَ إِذ يُعْ

    ملُ فيهم والطعنةَ المِرْشاشا

    He dealt the spraying stroke as he wor

    ked among them, and the spraying thrust.

  45. حين تبدي تلك الصدورُ انضماماً

    ثم يبدين والسُّحورَ انتفاشا

    When those chests first showed a tight formation,

    Then showed their bellies burst open.

  46. من إذا ما تجاحشَ القومُ بالآ

    راءِ بذَّ المجاحشينَ جِحاشا

    When men clashed in their opin

    ions, he surpassed all the disputants.

  47. مَنْ به أَسرعَ الظلامُ انطواءً

    وبه أَسرعُ الضياء انفراشا

    Through him darkness folded away swiftly,

    And through him daylight spread swiftly.

  48. يتقرَّى المرتَ المروراةَ ورّا

    داً على الظِّمءِ وِرْدَها النشاشا

    He crossed barren, stony wastes, coming to their watering place

    Thirsty, to drink even its brackish water.

  49. لا يبالي وَحْشَ الهجير إذا وا

    جَهَ وَجْهَ الهواجرِ المحَّاشا

    He cared nothing for the wild heat of noon when he fa

    ced the scorching face of the midday sun.

  50. يا بني أحمدٍ هواكم هوىً خا

    لط منَّا مِخاخَنا والمُشَاشا

    O sons of Ahmad, love of you has ming

    led with the marrow of our bones.

  51. جاد قبراً بكربلاءَ رشاشُ ال

    غيثِ ما اسطاعَتِ الغيوثُ رشاشا

    May showers of rain enrich a grave at Karbala

    For as long as clouds can send down rain.

  52. واسجاشَ الربيعُ فيها جيوشاً

    من جيوشِ الربيع فيها استجاشا

    May spring muster armies there,

    As its own armies gather in spring.

  53. نقَّشَتْ روضها أكفُّ حياها

    وكفى الرّوضَ بالحيا نقَّاشا

    The hands of its life giving rain embroidered its meadow;

    Rain alone suffices as the meadow's embroiderer.

  54. فهناك النقيُّ جيباً من الفح

    شاء ما رام مُفْحِشٌ إِفحاشا

    There lies one pure of heart from indecen

    cy, however much the obscene seek obscenity.

  55. لا المُراشي ولا المصانعُ في الدي

    نِ إِذا صانعَ المريبُ وحاشى

    Neither a bribe taker nor one who compromises in reli

    gion when the suspect man bargains; far be it from him.

  56. وابلٌ من تقى هزيمُ الشآبي

    ب إذا الأتقياءُ كانوا طِشاشا

    A downpour of piety, thunderous as rain clouds,

    When other pious people were mere drizzle.

  57. ما ذكرتُ الحسينَ بالطفِّ إِلاَّ

    جاشَ صدري بما ذكرتُ وجاشا

    Whenever I remember Husayn at al-Taff,

    My breast surges with the memory, surges again.

  58. حين أعطى الأعنّةَ الخيلَ أَوْبَا

    شُ يزيدٍ تَبَّاً لهم أَوباشا

    When the rabble of Yazid gave their horses free rein,

    May they perish, those rabble.

  59. طمعاً أن يُلَقَّبوا نُصَّاحاً

    ليزيدٍ فَلُقِّبوا غُشَّاشا

    Hoping to be called loyal advisers

    To Yazid, they were instead called cheats.

  60. ورجاءً أَنْ يُدهشوا المنجدَ النَّجْ

    دَ الذي ليسَ يرْهَبُ الإِدهاشا

    And hoping to astonish the valiant, no

    ble man who did not fear astonishment.

  61. فلقوا منه أثبتَ الناسِ جيشاً

    حين يُلْقى وأَثبتَ الناسِ جاشا

    They found him the firmest of men in battle

    When met, and the stoutest of heart.

  62. حُوَّلاً قُلَّباً يقارع مَنْ قا

    رعَ لا هائباً ولا طيّاشا

    Resourceful and seasoned, he fought whoever fou

    ght him, neither afraid nor rash.

  63. عالياً أرؤسَ الكباشِ بِشَدَّا

    تٍ يُغادِرْنَ كالنعاجِ الكباشا

    Rising over the heads of their champions with stro

    kes that left those champions like ewes.

  64. ذائداً عن حُشاشَةِ النفس حتى

    لم يَدَعْ للنفوسِ منهم حُشَاشا

    Defending the last spark of life until

    He left no spark of life in theirs.

  65. فتظنّوا من صَوْلَةِ ابنِ عليٍّ

    فيهمُ أَنَّهُ عليٌّ عاشا

    From the charge of Ali's son against them,

    You would have thought Ali himself lived again.

  66. ناوَشُوهُ دونَ الفراتِ ولولا

    سابقُ الحكم ما أَطاقوا النِّواشا

    They kept him from the Euphrates; but for

    The prior decree, they could not have withstood his attack.

  67. فثَنى من عنانِهِ وهو عَطْشا

    نُ وليستْ منه الرماحُ عِطاشا

    So he turned his reins while thirs

    ty, though his spears were not thirsty for them.

  68. ودَّعَتْهُ على غشاشٍ نساءٌ

    ما اشتفى مِنْ وداعهنَّ غِشاشا

    Women bade him a hurried farewell,

    A brief farewell that could not satisfy them.

  69. كلَّما رام للنساءِ وداعاً

    كامَشُوهُ دونَ الوَداع كِماشا

    Whenever he sought to bid the women goodbye,

    They pressed upon him, blocking the farewell.

  70. غادروا ابنَ النبيِّ مفترشاً فُرْ

    ش الصحاري يا هولَ ذاك افتراشا

    They left the Prophet's son lying on the bed

    Of the desert sands. How terrible a resting place!

  71. وفَروا منه مَوْضِعاً كان يؤذي

    جدَّه أن يحسَّ فيه انخداشا

    They struck from him a place where even a scratch

    Would have hurt his grandfather.

  72. علَّمتني الإِجهاشَ قَتْلى على الطفِّ

    وما كنتُ أُحْسِنُ الإجهاشا

    The slain at al-Taff taught me to break into sobs,

    Though I had not known how to sob.

  73. وأَسىً نِيطَ بالنياطِ حكى في

    نهشه القلبَ أرقماً نَهَّاشا

    And grief tied to my heartstrings resembled, in

    Its gnawing at my heart, a biting serpent.

  74. حين قالوا ابنُ بنتِ أحمدَ أودى

    قلتُ حاشا ابنَ بنتِ أحمدَ حاشا

    When they said, 'The grandson of Ahmad is gone,'

    I said, 'Never! The grandson of Ahmad—never!'

  75. ليس من بطشهمْ ثَوى بل ثَوى عَن

    بطشِ يومِ لم ينفِككْ بَطَّاشا

    He fell not through their force, but away from

    The force of a Day whose blows never cease.

  76. وصروفُ الأيامِ تقتحمُ الأخيا

    سَ بغياً وتهجمُ الأعشاشا

    The turns of time invade tents

    In tyranny and assault nests.

  77. تستعدُّ الورى حشيشاً فما تَب

    رَحُ تستغرق الحشيشَ احتشاشا

    They prepare all people as dry grass and ne

    ver stop gathering up that grass.

  78. كم لذا الموت من مناقيش ما تن

    فَكُّ تستخرجُ النفوسَ انتقاشا

    How many hooks death has that ne

    ver cease drawing souls out.

  79. نحن منهم إِما هو احرنفشَ جه

    مَ المحيَّا يَرُوعنا احرنفاشا

    We are among them when it bristles, grim

    Of face, frightening us with its swelling rage.

  80. لو حمى نوبةً ودودٌ ودوداً

    يا صحابي الوداد لا الأغشاشا

    If a loving friend defended a turn for a friend,

    O companions of love, free from deceit,

  81. لحماها أبو عرارٍ عراراً

    وحماها أبو خراشٍ خراشا

    Abu Arar would have defended Arar,

    And Abu Khirash would have defended Khirash.

  82. بل لكان الحسين أولى بأن يو

    لى انتصاحاً فكيف يولى اغتشاشا

    Surely Husayn was more deserving of be

    ing treated with sincere counsel; why was he met with deceit?

  83. يا لعادين لم يكن منهم خا

    شٍ ولا كان فيهمُ مَنْ تخاشى

    Oh, those attackers! None among them drew ba

    ck, nor was there one who held off.

  84. استطاشَ اللعينُ إِبليسُ منهمْ

    غيرَ نائينَ عنه مهما استطاشا

    The accursed Iblis drove them mad,

    And they stayed close to him however wildly he raged.

  85. استخفَّ الرؤوسَ منهم فضاهَتْ

    حين ضاهَتْ في الخفَّةِ الخَشخاشا

    He made their heads so light that they resembled

    Poppies in their lightness.

  86. منع المَرْقَدَ انتعاشُ أُيومٍ

    من هُمومٍ فُقْنَ الأيومَ انتعاشا

    The stir of heavy cares robbed me of sleep,

    Cares that surpassed mountains in their rising.

  87. كيف ما أرعشت أنامل شمر

    فأبت أن تطيع فيه إرتعاشاً

    How did Shimr's fingers fail to tremble,

    Refusing to obey the impulse to shake?

  88. كيف لم ترتهشِ من الرعبِ كفَّا

    هُ فيُكفاهُما الحسينُ ارتهاشا

    How did his two hands not quiver in fear,

    So that Husayn might be spared their shaking?

  89. فمتى تَطْرَغِشُّ أمراضُ أبنا

    ءِ الهدى أو تُقاربُ اطْرِغشاشا

    When will the illnesses of the sons

    Of guidance grow grave, or even near that point?

  90. ذا إذا جاحمُ الجحيمِ شفى الغي

    طَ امتخاخاً أنقاءهم وامتشاشا

    That will be when the blaze of Hell slakes its rage

    By sucking and gnawing the marrow of their bones.

  91. أيُّها الراكبون أفحشَ ما يَرْ

    كبُ من كانَ فاحشاً نجَّاشا

    O riders of the foulest thing that can be ri

    dden by one who is vile and prying,

  92. إنما حُشْتُمُ يزيدَ إلى النَّا

    رِ كما حاشكُمْ إِليها وحاشا

    You merely drove Yazid toward the Fi

    re, as he drove you toward it, and far be it otherwise.

  93. وأردتمْ بأن يكون شباشاً

    لتسفُّوا الدنيا فكان شباشا

    You wanted him to be a long pole

    With which to sweep up the world; a mere pole he proved.

  94. كذواتِ الأكراشِ ليست ترى المغ

    نَم إلا أَن تملأ الأكراشا

    Like potbellied beasts that see gain

    Only in filling their bellies.

  95. فَرطُ غُتْميَّةٍ سبقتمْ بها بَرْ

    كشَ أو باكَ باكَ أو خُرخاشا

    In utter stupidity you surpassed Bar

    kash, Bak Bak, and Khurkhash.

  96. لو منَ الطير كنتمُ أيها الخُفْ

    شُ قلوباً لكنتمُ خُفَّاشاً

    If you were birds, you bat

    hearted men, you would be bats.

  97. يا صدوراً كانت قبورَ ترابٍ

    فأصابت منه لها نَبَّاشا

    O breasts that were graves of buried dust,

    Which found someone to dig it up!

  98. تلك أَضغان بدرإنتبشت من

    بعدما لم تكن تطيق إنتباشا

    Those grudges of Badr were unearthed

    After they had lacked the strength to emerge.

  99. في يزيد يا سادتي عَجَبٌ يَنْ

    جُشُ فكري فما يني نجَّاشا

    In Yazid, my masters, lies a puzzle that pro

    bes my thought, which never stops probing.

  100. حَمَلتْ فُرْشُ مُلككمْ منه مَن يَصْ

    غُرُ عَنْ أن يُدعَى لكمْ فَرَّاشا

    The couches of your rule bore from him one too mean

    Even to be called your servant who spreads the bedding.

  101. ليس إِلا لأنَّهُ احتَوشَتْهُ

    حُمُرُ الجهلِ فادَّرته احتواشا

    Only because the asses of ignorance surrounded him

    And drove him into their herd.

  102. أيها الناصبون لي في هوى مَنْ

    لن أرى عن هواهمُ متحاشى

    O you who oppose me for loving those

    From whose love I will never turn away,

  103. إن هفا الكلبُ للهراشِ فللدي

    نِ أُسودٌ تُنْسي الكلابَ الهراشا

    If the dog longs for a brawl, faith has li

    ons that make dogs forget their fighting.

  104. ليس مخُّ الدنيا كما كان راراً

    لا ولا العظمُ مثل ما كان راشا

    The marrow of the world is no longer as runny as it was,

    Nor is its bone as feeble as before.

  105. ببني هاشم أَمِنَّا ارتعاشاً

    كان فيه مما تخافُ ارتعاشا

    Through the sons of Hashim we were safe from trembling

    At what once made the fearful tremble.

  106. هاكها لا تؤمُّ خاخَ ولا شا

    شَ ولكن تجوزُ خاخاً وشاشا

    Take this poem: it seeks neither Khakh nor Sha

    sh, yet passes through Khakh and Shash.

  107. جُونَةٌ ضُمِّنَتْ صنوفاً من الأح

    فاش أَطْيِبْ بها أَحفاشا

    A vessel filled with varieties of small trea

    sures—how sweet its contents are!

  108. جاش بحرُ الصنوبريِّ بمعنا

    ها وما زال بحرُهُ جيَّاشا

    Al-Sanawbari's sea surged with its mean

    ings, and his sea has always surged.

  109. ذات نظم مستحسنٍ مستمشٍّ

    كلما زاد زدته استمشاشا

    It has pleasing verse that flows on,

    And whenever it grows, I make it flow still more.

  110. فهو في القلبِ حين ينخشُّ أوحَى

    منه في سمع سامعيه انخشاشا

    Its entry into the heart conveys more quickly

    Than its entry into listeners' ears.

  111. تتقاضى الغيوثَ مهما أرَشَّتْ

    سُحْبُها أن تُواصلَ الإِرشاشا

    It asks the rains, whenever their clouds sprinkle,

    To keep the sprinkling coming.

  112. فَمُوالٍ يُغشى عليه إذا أص

    غى لها منافقٌ يَتَغاشى

    A loyal listener faints when he hea

    rs it; a hypocrite pretends to faint.