Sol 6.1

  1. ألقى عليه القبرُ ظلّ حجابِةِ

    فثوى ثَواءَ النصلِ مِلءَ قِرابهِ

    The grave cast the shadow of its veil over him;

    So he rested as a blade rests, filling its sheath.

  2. لو كان يعلَمُ قبرُهُ كم مُهجةٍ

    سَالت عليه لردَّه لِصِحابهِ

    If his grave knew how many hearts

    Had poured themselves out over him, it would return him to his companions.

  3. لَهْفي عليهِ يومَ قيل خَبَا الضّيا

    في ناظِرَيهِ وحار في أسبابِهِ

    Alas for him, the day they said the light had faded

    In his eyes, and its causes were a mystery.

  4. لم يلوِهِ البصرُ الكفيف عن الهدى

    ألعلْم في الدنيا هدَى أصحابهِ

    His blinded sight did not turn him from the right path;

    Knowledge in this world is a guide to its followers.

  5. لم يلوِهِ البصرُ الكفيف عن الهدى

    ألعلْمُ في الدنيا هدَى أصحابِهِ

    His blinded sight did not turn him from the right path;

    Knowledge in this world is a guide to its followers.

  6. ومشى مع الأيام يمزج صفوَها

    بهمومه ونعيمها بعذابهِ

    And he walked with the days, mingling their serenity

    With his cares, and their bliss with his torment.

  7. ناجيتُ ذكراه وقد أَبلى الردى

    ويحَ الرَّدى في التُّربِ غَضُّ إهابِهِ

    I communed with his memory; death had already worn away

    —Woe to death!—his tender skin in the dust.

  8. فذكرتُ أجملَ ما حلت ذكرَى به

    عن علمه وصفاته وشبابه

    Then I recalled the loveliest things that sweetened remembrance:

    His learning, his qualities, and his youth.

  9. ليت المحاماةَ التي فُجِعت به

    صانته من ظفْر الحِمام ونابه

    If only the legal profession, bereaved of him,

    Had shielded him from death's claw and fang.

  10. حَفَلتْ به عهداَ فكان لسانَها

    أيام نُنصِت بهجةً لخطابِهِ

    It cherished him for a time, and he was its voice,

    In days when we listened with delight to his speech.

  11. ذو الحجتين العلم في برهانِهِ

    والشيمةِ الغرّاء في آدابِهِ

    He possessed two proofs: learning in his reasoning,

    And radiant character in his conduct.

  12. سِرنا به في يومِهِ فكأنما

    يمشي على اللهفاتِ من أحبابهِ

    We went with him on his day, as though

    He were walking upon his loved ones' anguished longings.

  13. في موكبٍ يتلو حديثَ حياتِهِ

    فمشت كذاك حياتُه بركابِهِ

    In a procession reciting the story of his life;

    Thus his life, too, walked in his train.

  14. إني نظرتُ إلى الحياةِ فلم أجد

    إِلاّ حديثَ المرء بعد ذهاِبهِ

    Indeed, I looked at life and found nothing

    But the story of a man after his passing.

  15. النفس عند الله في ملكوته

    والذكر للإنسان يومَ حسابِهِ

    The soul is with God in His kingdom,

    And remembrance belongs to man on the day of his reckoning.