Sol 6.1

  1. تَقادَمَ وُدُّكِ أُمَّ الجَلالِ

    فَطاشَت نَبالُكَ عِندَ النِضالِ

    Your love has grown old, Umm al-Jalal,

    and your arrows have missed at the archery contest.

  2. وَطالَ لَزومَكَ لي حِقبَةً

    فَرَثَّت قُوى الحَبلِ بَعدَ الوِصالِ

    Your clinging to me lasted an age,

    then the rope's strands frayed after union.

  3. وَكانَ الفُؤادُ بِها مُعجَباً

    فَقَد أَصبَحَ اليَومَ عَن ذاكَ سالي

    And the heart was enamored of her,

    but today it has grown free of that love.

  4. صَحا لا مُسيئاً وَلا ظالِماً

    وَلَكِن سلا سَلوَةً في جَمالِ

    It sobered, neither doing harm nor acting unjustly,

    but let its love subside with grace.

  5. وَرُضتِ خَلائِقَنا كُلَّها

    وَرُضنا خَلائِقَكُم كُلَّ حالِ

    You have tamed all our dispositions,

    and we have tamed yours in every circumstance.

  6. فَأَعيَيتِنا في الَّذي بَينَنا

    تَسومِينَني كُلَّ أَمرٍ عُضالِ

    Yet you have worn us out in our dealings,

    imposing on me every grievous task.

  7. وَقَد تَأمُرينَ بِقَطعِ الصَديقِ

    وَكانَ الصَديقُ لَنا غَيرَ قالِ

    You even command me to break with a friend,

    though that friend bore us no ill will,

  8. وَإِتيانِ ما قَد تَجَنَّبتُهُ

    وَليداً وَلُمتُ عَلَيهِ رِجالي

    and to do what I had shunned

    as a boy, and rebuked my men for doing.

  9. أَفَاليَومَ أَركَبُهُ بَعدَما

    عَلا الشيبُ مِنّي صَميمَ القَذالِ

    Shall I take it up today, after

    gray hair has covered the very back of my head?

  10. لَعَمرُ أَبيكِ لَقَد خِلتِني

    ضَعيفَ القُوى أَو شَديدَ المِحالِ

    By your father's life, you have indeed thought me

    weak in strength, or formidable in guile.

  11. هَلُمّي اِسأَلي نائِلاً فَاِنظُري

    أَأَحرِمَكِ الخَيرَعِندَ السُؤالِ

    Come, ask for a gift, and see

    whether I deny you bounty when you ask.

  12. أَلَم تَعلَمي أَنَّني مُعرِقٌ

    نَماني إِلى المَجدِ عَمّي وَخالي

    Did you not know that I am of deep-rooted stock—

    my paternal and maternal uncles raised me to glory—

  13. وَأَنّي إِذا ساءَني مَنزِلٌ

    عَزَمتُ فَأَوشَكتُ مِنهُ اِرتِحالي

    and that whenever a dwelling displeases me,

    I resolve and swiftly take my leave of it?

  14. فَبَعضَ العِتابِ فَلا تَهلِكي

    فَلا لَكِ في ذاكَ خَيرٌ وَلا لي

    So temper your reproaches; do not ruin yourself,

    for there is no good in that for you or me.

  15. فَلَمّا بَدا لِيَ مِنها البَذا

    ءَ صَبَّحتُها بِثَلاثٍ عِجالِ

    Then, when her foul speech became plain to me,

    I greeted her one morning with three swift divorces—

  16. ثَلاثاً خَرَجنَ جَميعاً بِها

    فَخَلَّينَها ذاتَ بَيتٍ وَمالِ

    three that together sent her away,

    and let her go with a home and wealth,

  17. إِلى أَهلِها غَيرَ مَخلوعَةٍ

    وَما مَسَّها عِندَنا مِن نَكالِ

    to her kin, not made to pay for her release;

    and no punishment touched her while she was with us.

  18. فَأَمسَت تَحِنَّ حَنينَ اللِقا

    حِ مِن جَزَعٍ إِثرَ مَن لا يُبالي

    So by evening she moaned like nursing camels,

    in anguish after one who does not care.

  19. فَحِنّي حَنينَكِ وَاِستَيقِني

    بَأَنّا اِطَّرَحناكِ ذاتَ الشِمالِ

    So moan your moans, and know for certain

    that we have cast you off to the left,

  20. وَأَن لا رُجوعَ فَلا تُكذِبي

    نَ ما حَنَّتِ النيبُ إِثرَ الفِصالِ

    and that there is no return—do not deny it—

    as long as old she-camels moan for their weanlings.

  21. وَلا تَحسِبيني بَأَنّي نَدِم

    تُ كَلّا وَخالِقَنا ذي الجَلالِ

    And do not think that I regret it—

    No indeed, by our Creator, possessor of majesty!